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I ate Top Ramen for five years.
not really
Good question, btw. I don't think most folks really think about it. They just store them up and figure they're gtg.Has anyone done a Supersize Me type experiment to see how it affected them physically and mentally? I'm not talking about a weekend camping trip, I mean like 30 days or more of eating pouches stored in buckets.
Care to share?
Well, I did a diet of "C" rations, five days on and five days off, for 12 1/2 months. The off days I mostly ate home cooked Korean food in the Katusa snack bar, with breakfast in the mess hall. I generally didn't eat lunch. When it came to food, I went native like yesterday!
This was doing hard work, mostly outdoors in 112-115deg summer and a loooooooong -20-25deg winter. Sighhhhh, so efrn long!
I don't really know how this translates into results with modern survival grub, but I never felt like the "C's" let me down for stamina and energy. Ditto for a hearty mess hall breakfast and a Korean supper, consisting of, fried rice w/ a few vegetables, sliced cucumbers w/sea salt, and Bul Gogi, a BBQ beef dish that might be thought of as the national dish of Korea. Oh yeah, and a big bowl of Kim Chi, the actual national dish of Korea!
Wow! Really tired now and the brain is fading fast! I'll look at this tomorrow and see if I can add anything intelligent or perhaps, if there are any questions?
The biggest issue with eating them day after day is all the salt that's used to make them last forever. After a week or so you'll be really uncomfortable. Bloating sucks.
As far as mentally, they do have the nutrition you need.
So they'll keep you alive just fine. But it's not fun.
Has a familiar ring to it.My son ate MRE's for 3 weeks when they first were first forward deployed in Afghanistan in 2008. They were living in mud huts, crapping in the ditches, no showers or hot meals. Contact every day. They poured hot sauce over everything.
They finally started flying hot chow out to them every other day unless the rags started sh*t up when the helicopters came around. They finally got some infrastructure set up and started getting them rotated out every 3 days. Patrol 1 day, lay up for two to recover. They would lose 12 pounds of body weight on a patrol. At least they had decent chow when they were back.
He still has indigestion issues and takes a lot of anti acids. No matter what or how you prepare it, the amounts of preservatives in any of the survival foods is going to cause you trouble.
My son ate MRE's for 3 weeks when they first were first forward deployed in Afghanistan in 2008. They were living in mud huts, crapping in the ditches, no showers or hot meals. Contact every day. They poured hot sauce over everything.