Boil in a bag? Kinda...

I came home and promptly fell over two large boxes on my doorstep - two fatass boxes, full of MREs. For those not in the know, those are ready to eat rations as used by the Army - in this specific case, the US army.

They're kinda nifty actually; it's all ready cooked, the packs will survive for YEARS without any special care and they come with their own heating packs as they're designed to be eaten on the go. They're also rammed full of vitamin and mineral supplements.

They're not cheap, but the US ones are much nicer than the British versions - and the pound cake alone totally makes it worthwhile. Mmmmm, almond and poppyseed... His Lordship likes the peanut butter packs, and the jalapeño cheese spreads you get with the packets of wheatbread. (Which is actually really nice too.) 

On a related note, I was checking out some US military statistics, and this fact made me laugh - the maority of troops use full auto weaponry, usually for suppression tactics (to make the bad guys keep down whilst your troops scuttle to the next position). Now, for each insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, two hundred and fifty thousand bullets hit... absolutely nothing.

Yeah. That's nearly three tons of ammunition for one bad guy, each time.