Sure-pak MRE Meal Kit with Heaters

The meals are tasty, reasonably fresh and the side dishes are nice. The main problems are the repetitiveness of the meals and the use of cookies as a dessert.

As with our review of the Eversafe MREs, the Sure-pak 12 meal kit has six different menus, and each is duplicated. If you plan to use this kit as your sole meals source on a trip, then you will be eating each meal twice.

The lack of a formal dessert in 6 of the 12 meals is disappointing.

The Basic Facts:

Company name: SoPakCo of South Carolina
Product name: SurePak 12 MRE’s- Meals ready to eat
Purchased from: amazon.com
Purchase date: February, 2012
Purchase price: $115.60 plus $12.49 shipping = $129.09
Number of meals in product: 12
Average price per meal: $10.67

The Pros and Cons:

  • Pros:
    1. The kit we ordered is reasonably fresh and the food is tasty.
    2. The items in each meal kit are the military items. However, several items are humanitarian daily ration components — the silver items.
    3. The Sure-pak MRE contains slightly more food than the Eversafe 12 meal kit.
    4. There are proper side dishes like rice and refried beans.
  • Cons:
    1. There are only 6 different menus, each of which is repeated.
    2. The Surepak MRE makes heavy use of oatmeal cookies as the dessert.
    3. There are only 4 military dessert items.
    4. Therea are no nice extras like cheese or shakes.
    5. Something worth mentioning as a Con all its own: there’s no Tabasco.

The Items in Detail:

MRE Menu # Main Dessert Bread Drink
Menu 1 (1) Meatballs and (2) Oatmeal cookie Applesauce Crackers Lemon-Lime flavored beverage
Menu 2 (1) Meatballs and (2) Cherry Cobbler (1) Oatmeal Cookie and (2) Strawberry Jam Crackers Lemon-Lime flavored beverage
Menu 3 & 4 (1) Veggie Burger and (2) Pears (1) Oatmeal cookie and (2) Blackberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Tropical Punch
Menu 5 (1) Cheese Tort and (2) Refried Beans (1) Fig Bar and (2) Blackberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Orange flavored beverage
Menu 6 (1) Cheese Tort and (2) Mexican Corn (1) Fig Bar and (2) Blackberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Orange flavored beverage
Menu 7 (1) Chili Macaroni and (2) Spiced Apple Pieces (1) Patriotic Cookies and (2) Strawberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Lemon-Lime flavored beverage
Menu 8 (1) Chili Macaroni and (2) Spiced Apple Pieces (1) Fig Bar and (2) Strawberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Lemon-Lime flavored beverage
Menu 9 (1) Pork Sausage Patty and (2) Mexican Rice (1) Oatmeal Cookie and (2) Peanut Butter Vegetable Crackers Tropical Punch
Menu 10 (1) Pork Sausage Patty and (2) Cherry / Blueberry Cobbler (1) Oatmeal Cookie and (2) Peanut Butter Vegetable Crackers Tropical Punch
Menu 11 & 12 (1) Sloppy Joe Filling and (2) Mexican Style Corn (1) Fig Bar and (2) Blackberry Jam Vegetable Crackers Orange flavored beverage

** Each meal comes with a heater bag and the condiment / utensil package includes: spoon, napkin, wet wipe, salt, pepper, coffee, coffee whitener and sugar.

Rating by MRE Reviewer: 3 stars
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