Trying Estonian 24h MRE. Worlds happiest soldiers for sure.

One of the best Mre's I tried .

[@volvogoodtruck1117]

The main thing with this food is that the meals are big, but aren't meant to be eaten all at once. Usually u eat like a can of food and the rest is snack along the way. Otherwise, good to see Estonian MREs be appreciated :)

[@raifthemad]

That's exactly what I did with those toffies during my last reserve exercises. Stuck em in my pocket and had one-two whenever I felt like it. About the lack of cutlery. Every estonian soldier is issued a metals set of knife, fork and spoon and a swedish style stainless steel cooking set with spirits based heater. There are several different menus and some had canned rye bread in them instead of crackers. I strongly preferred those ones.

[@jl6332]

Halvah has different variations in different packs, I cant recall exacltly how many, but I think there was atleast vanilla, rum and I guess caramell variations.

[@eragon2849]

chocolate aswell :D

[@JB-fl2gm]

Good review. One of the better ones I’ve seen.

[@hbmluiks]

This canned meat is a lot better when heated in my opinion.

[@arichiquabtd8092]

Ive not been to the military yet but oh my god I laughed when I saw the "rannarootsi" canned meat :D. They're a known local (aka made in Estonia and produces for Estonia) company. Now in the year 2022 I think the best meat products come from Liivimaa Lihaveis. Of course you can find some farms for that well marbled meat if you're a bbq fanatic. I wouldn't mind the food there at all but I'm not really fit for military and despite them telling me this every evaluation they keep giving me a new date. It's driving me crazy, have a lot of mental stuff I've been fixing my whole life and am still fixing.

[@Jamal-gy5lu]

Fellow estonian here. I'd strongly recommend getting fit & completing your service. It can do wonders for your mental state.

[@userundefined01]

I served 5 years in the U.S. active duty Army. I didn't know what I was doing and what I wanted in life and I struggled a lot. I was 24 when I enlisted. After deploying to Iraq and serving my 5 years, I knew what I wanted out of life and what direction I needed to go. The Army definitely helped me grow up, gave me confidence as well as learning a lot about myself.

[@volvogoodtruck1117]

Don't worry and just go for it. In the end, what helped me, was that most people you serve time with are in exactly the same shit you are in and have all their own issues. Eventually You just push through and find "Conscription was/is way easier than civil life".

[@gunnarisaksson8677]

You seems to have found a real winner for a 24 H MRP. Perhaps the Estonia could export their MRP to countries in war or close to beeing in war.

[@incremental_failure]

The rice and meat can is meant to be heated. That's why it's not cooked completely, it cooks as you heat it.

[@AKKK1182]

Back in the service those sweets were a life saver, candy bars from store and halva from the MRE. The plus side was you could just stuff your face on the go, no need to warm them up and it's fast energy. Didn't eat any sweets for like 5 years after the service, now I maybe have something sweet every other week or so.

[@macarnisadventure3910]

Can imagine that 😁😁 loads of sweets in pack good for one day out but for all that time that's just sweet overdose 🤭🤭🤭

[@Validole]

​@@macarnisadventure3910I can guarantee that during manoevuers, an infantryman will use all of that energy. Again, this is for a full 24 hours, and a 40km overland with full load, with the occasional fire-and-movement. is among the things a soldier might be expected to do. Yes, for the hurry-up-and-wait days, it's too much. But those days are usually at an FOB, with DFAC provided by the base. Same for the motorized guys (comms, arty etc). They usually have these packs as backup rations in the truck for when they suddenly have to deploy far from the base of operations, and are expected to last more than 24 hours in this situation.

[@Validole]

When I was in service, we brought extra from the base store: Snickers and Coca-Cola was the main produce sold, and we lost weight during service...

[@eragon2849]

Back in 2016 when i served, our MRE-s only had canned food so we usually had around 3 cans of food and one water based food that was usually breakfast. Those MRE-s weighed a ton but were quite good.

[@volvogoodtruck1117]

Yes, can agree. Better than average and.. I remember when the dry packages came. They were all cool and fun, but in the end kinda.. kinda.. stale. :D In other words, if you have time to cook, then the canned ones were superb. reischfleisch with a bit of salt pepper and water - super.

[@KrK-EST]

Estonia is a northern country so we need lots of energy from meals (can go down to -35C, usual vinters are around -15 to -25C).

[@Validole]

"World's smallest army in Estonia" - Mate, we're next to Russia. The country may be small in population, but you best believe the army is prepared for some serious mobilisation. Depending on whether you count in active reserves (not even considering a full mobilisation), Ireland has a smaller army. And by capita in active service, US and UK and Poland are positively pacifist. 😂

[@DeepbloodFang]

those wipes were pretty valuable, we traded them and used them to wipe our nether regions after camping for a week or two with no showers.

[@kriscreations4]

Nice review

[@eizen3810]

ever wanted to taste shit? try pilav from a can made by Felix

[@volvogoodtruck1117]

Only when cold. It needs water and heating and a bit salt and pepper

[@JulieIelasi-lt7yp]

There's Grizzly beats around man for real 😮

[@fresh_mre4268]

Cool review mate!