M...R...E...?

     How many of you have heard about an MRE?  The M stands for 'meal', R stands for 'ready', there is no t but if there were T would stand for 'to', and E stands for 'eat'.  All together that makes Meal Ready to Eat.  


     For my 11th birthday I got an MRE from a friend.  The main course was spaghetti and meat balls, the snack was bread (which was gross), the dessert was cherry blueberry cobbler.  There were also potato sticks and some sort of cheese spread (which looked so disgusting I couldn't bring myself to eat it.)  The MRE also had coffee, creamer, sugar, salt, two gum chicklets,  handi-wipe, toilet paper, Tobasco sauce, fruit punch, and a plastic spoon.  I brought my MRE to school for lunch two months after  I got it. Every one asked what it was and if they could try some.  Most thought the potato sticks were good.  My teacher ask if I was ready to go back to home cooked meals.  The spaghetti and meat balls tasted like a weight loss meal and the meat balls were the size of the top of my pinky (so basically very small meat balls).  The cobbler was good and didn't taste like a weight loss meal.  One friend asked if he could take the MRE packet home.  I said yes.  When I got home I made the fruit punch and then I fizzed it up.  The fruit punch dyed my top lip red!  


     I told my friend who gave it to me how much I liked it and he gave my another one.   He gave Aidan one too.  This time I got beef enchilada and Aidan got chicken and dumplings.  Aidan ate his MRE that night.  I'm going to bring my MRE for lunch when I go back to school after April vacation is over. 

This is what is in an MRE.

This is an MRE( not mine)