This Is How Military Food Rations Look For Different Armies (14 Pics)

"Potato Substance"

Is that a teeny tiny Tabasco?

Look better than many of the others

I would gladly serve in french army. Especially if you compare it with than Yugoslavian army where I served more than 30 years ago

A few translations: Rindfleischlyoner grob: rough Bologna style sausage made of beef; Mettwürstchen: small strongly flavoured sausage made from raw minced pork; Hackfleischröllchen: small minced meat rolls; Roggenschrotbrot: coarse-grained rye bread;

I’ve had many of these when is was an aside Cadet and in basic training when I joined the Canadian Forces. Some of the entries were better than others but I never got the baked beans.

best one yet!

oh my gosh they have skittles

The Cheese Tortellini is one of the best MREs in the inventory. The beef stew is also surprising good.

The US MRE is meant for high calorie intake (~1,200 cal.) not nutrition. This is 1 of 24 different meals, which change periodically. Each case (A/B) contains 12 meals/menus. In a pinch, one MRE can be split into 3 meals (skittles count) based on contents. They always contain a main, side, bread or crackers, dessert or snack, a drink pouch, and condiments that include a spread of some sort (cheese or peanut butter), salt/pepper, Tabasco or other "hot" sauce, coffee, a book of matches, and 6-12 individual sheets of toilet paper. Fun fact: bread and pound cakes are full loafs that have been vacuumed down to both save space and provide more food.

US is cheap with everything. MRE's, school lunches, food for those in need ..... "great country" ... cheap AF

The Skittles remind me of how young we send them into combat.

It's so much less than the others

Do not be fooled... the only thing palatable is the skittles. The crackers will turn your mouth into the Sahara desert.

looks bad, like school's lunch

I like the skittles...and the chili looks good...but compared to the amount of food by the other militaries...

I can now die happy knowing that the US army has included Skittles in their rations.

us U.S. folk gotta eat our artificial flavored candies

When did they get Skittles? Notice the USA has the smallest portion of all of them... OK almost all

Oh s**t. We’re in trouble.

Candy? Gotta keep the soldiers looking like the population they're defending, I guess.

Sugar rush/slump? As useful as a headache

Awww .. I was hoping to see a more luxurious package from the richest Army in the World :-)

Eh, not bad. Better than K-rations.

How do they live on this? No veg, no fruit, no fiber. This is all starch and sugar.

I heard one of the advanced combat members used to combine drink packets with crackers, and water in a bag to make a kind of pineapple upside down cake concoction.

Yes to chili and skittles... But the US's is a helluva lot smaller portion than anyone else's!

Skittles are new since 1995. So is that marble cake. There used to be a "cookie" that looked like 1"x1"x3" block of pressed particle board. It was mildly sweet and as dry as the particle board it looked like. It could stop a system up fast.

so many skittles

The cake is surprisingly good.

is that gum the woman is holding?

I've eaten C Rats, Long Rats, and MRE's. In this old Marine's opinion, they should've stuck with the C Rats.

My dad was in the Army and he used to bring home boxes of MREs that we would take on camping trips. Really... interesting.

Multiple if not ALL of the countries presented had candy and other sweets in their MRE’s

I used to think it was a treat to have a MRE. Ha! Kids!

Chili mac, Jack!

Is that after dinner mints I see?

Carb City!

SKITTLES!!!

not as bad as the fruitcake

Ate many MRE's in the Army and I loved them especially the deserts.

My mom retired from the army and my dad is still in the army, and they have these at the grocery store that is on base

What is the white squares? Gum?

And some chewing gum.