Youtube daily MRE May 3 2018

Ad we are back, this time as you can see we have Italian Armed Forces ration.

Since this is ration made by NATO STANAG

You have three languages printed

One is domestic, second is English and third is French

as they are official languages of NATO

Here we have some label

That someone covered with a piece of black tape

we can see here

production date is 2015.

and best before date is August 2017.

so some things here will be out of date

but they will probably be just fine

on the back we have informations about contents

printed in Italian, English and French

you can pause the video if you want to check it out

the ration is divided in breakfast, lunch and dinner

one of interesting things about this rations

is that every menu

or Module has it's colour

this one is green for Modul D

every Modul have its own colour

so you can know by these colour dots

what menu you have

you can't open it like US MRE

this one you need to cut by yourself

first box is breakfast

second something bigger box is lunch

and the last box

on the bottom is dinner

if your ration gets wet it will probably be just fine

boxes are breakfast, lunch and dinner

this is breakfast box

you can see it's a normal box

packaging date is 2015

first thing we have it's sweet crackers

something in a individual bag

that you can open easily

instructions for this ration

and here we have instructions for disinfection of vegetables, water and etc

it seems like they are telling you the water ratio

per one tab

we'll check this later

three paper bags

it's secured by this white tape

another bag that contains

spoon and paper napkins

another bag

that we will check later

instant sweetened lemon flavored tea

cappuccino

sugar

little bag of salt

and these are tabs for which we have instructions

probably for water purification

but also if you use it with less water

you can use it for disinfection

of fruit and vegetables

interesting...

usually you get just tabs

for water disinfection and these ones are even bigger

probably also stronger

two peach jams

25 grams each

two toothpicks

another interesting thing is this foldable stove

that you open like this

or close it a bit

so you can put cans on it

for this stove you get six

Esbit heating tabs

matches

toothbrushes

and this little toothpaste

last thing is a chocolate

so this is it for breakfast

I'll continue with opening

if someone only wants to see whats inside

so you can see everything at the start of this video

and let's open the lunch box

as you can see it's made almost identical

you can see here when it was packed

and the contents in three languages

we also get this cutlery set

knife, fork and spoon

and paper napkin

pack of crackers

enermix multivitamin and mineral tablets

if they disolve in water or consume like this

I'm not sure

so you have four of these tablets

one more pack of crackers

here we have

Macedonian (mixed) fruit salad

125 grams of fruit

225 grams altogether with sweetened water

ravioli in sauce

400 grams

160 grams of tuna with peas

more Enervit tablets (these one are fiber tabs)

last in this box are sugar

and instant coffee

last box to open is dinner box

we have this cutlery set

knife, spoon and fork with paper napkin

pack of sugar

instant coffee

and Enervit fruit cereal bar

pack of crackers

canned beef

another can that's inside is Minestrone soup

another fruit cereal bar, 43 grams

the rest of the things from the breakfast box

you can see up here

and interesting thing about these tablets are

you have rations written here

if you want to use it as water purification tabs

with one of these you will disinfect around 15 liters of water

if you use less then 15 liters of water

and put in one of these

you will end up with

heavy chemical taste

let's start with lemon tea

that has added sugar in it

and cappuccino

let's add sugar

let's open the jam

it looks like honey

doesn't have strong smell

sweet crackers

of course they are all broken

let's try one

they have a hint of vanilla in them

they are very crisp

jam is very good, very sweet

also very soft

excellent combination these two

and you have another one here

lets try the tea

you can smell the lemon

not very aggressive

it says sugar is already added

let's try it

very good tea since it's instant tea

it's sweet enough

you can taste the lemon aroma

for me this is much better then classic tea

you get in rations like black or indian tea

let's try the cappuccino

it's almost bitter

that pack of sugar really helps

very nice for a instant cappuccino

you can taste something like milk too

nice for early mornings

25 grams of chocolate

45% of cacao

of course it's not black anymore

it went greyish or maybe brown

it happens often when oils get ou

you can stil eat it even if it looks this strange

lets try this piece

very crumbly and it melts really quick

something between milk and dark chocolate

as Americans often do

comparing things from the rations

with things they eat every day

and we from Europe don't have clue about it

what taste it is or what are they talking about

so I will compare this to our Kraš Express

if you ever tasted it by itself

it's like this just in a shape of this chocolate

it's like they asked me what to use for breakfast

so you have few light food items

few hot drinks

chocolate, little sugar

some things you can see above

you will use throughout the day

so we have 2 packs of crackers

coffee, sugar

energy vitamin tablets

fiber tablets

we have tuna with peas, we have mixed fruit

ravioli in sauce

first I would like to try

this energy tablets

you get four of them

and you get ten fiber tablets

I don't think it's necessary to

consume this fiber tablets in this review

but we can try this multivitamin, multimineral tablets

it looks like this

very weird stale and chemical taste

best before was a month ago

it should be still fine, but

I will just put them aside

like this one

lets open this can of tuna

tuna with peas

first time I see this combination

it's probably ours

taken from our side of Adriatic sea

this is some kind of Macedonian

fruit salad

last can

is ravioli in sauce

best before was a month ago

it still smells fine... next the crackers

one of them I will open

next - coffee

and heat the ravioli

and it's heated

coffee is prepared

now tuna with peas

there is plenty of oil in it

not much tuna, but there is plenty of peas

when you get spoonful you get

lots of peas and little tuna

and lots of oil

it has lots of oil in it but this is tasty

peas are also good even if I don't really like it

not bad combination

bad thing is this oil at the surface you have lots of it

let's try the crackers

still crumbly, they will probably be like this for years

not that strong taste, you can taste just the flour and salt

now the coffee

straight black with little sugar

it has strange taste

like it's perfumed

and this liquid is just sugared water

and inside you can see

peach, pear, grapes...

something that's welcome to have in the field

ravioli

with beef

looks like a soup

you have some pasta

some, not much meat

closest to compare this

would be liquid lasagna

if you ever ate lasagna you know how this taste

pasta is overcooked

not really al-dente

but this sauce is really good

you can drop some crackers in it

if they give you this menu every day

for several days

you will think of these combinations

you will end up putting tuna with peas in this

maybe even one day

that mixed fruit salad

because you will get crazy from monotony of the same meals

as for now big plus for this ration

let's go to dinner

last part of this ratio

we have this coffee and sugar

the same as for lunch

cutlery with napkin

minestrone soup

beef in jello made in Slovenia

one pack of crackers

we need to heat this up... you can see the dust on it

so, soup is heated up

lets check out this fruit cereal bar

no smell from it at all

and this is item I wanted to try in this ration

beef in jello

it looks like this...

I'm gonna take the spoon to try this soup

it's tomato based sauce, taste stron of peas

and carrot... you can see how liquid it is

thats not a bad thing

lets try the beef in jello

it will be easier to place it on a plate

or to use FRED

and to open it from other side too

you can see how much meat you get

beef in jello

very strong smell (good one)

like a luncheon meat of some kind

this is awesome, although it does not look like it

it reminds me of those spam cans

the portion itself is big

lets try the cracker

to see how it copes with time

well it's the same as the one I had for lunch

now the fruit cereal bar

you get two of these

not sure if this is a plum or a fig

taste is not that strong

so this would be it for this Italian ration

that isn't really bad, but also isn't really special..

people pay lots of money to get one

and try it

and I got it as a gift

for a birthday, from a friend from England

I asked him for a picture of Margaret Thatcher

the Iron Lady, woman who defeated Germans in....

...Dunkirk.... defeated Argentinians

at Falkland Islands and she like, won the world

for the Brits, so my mate have send me this picture

so here you can see picture of Margaret Thatcher

...so...

woman that defeated the Hitler and

banned people from behaving like beasts on

British stadiums

because of her

you can go to stadiums in GB with children

you will have no trouble or fear you will get attacked by hooligans

and in the meantime the world is more free place

it depends for whom, because she defeated

the Third Reich so thanks my English friend!

and in the essence we like to hangout and to try some new food that foreign soldiers eat

and they mostly eat food

that's well known in their country

so this would be it about this Italian ration for Crombat Rations

thanks for watching and to put up with me

best regards until the next time