Upon request from our readers, I was asked to make a follow-up to the MRE article. In there, I had mentioned that creating your own MRE is more efficient and cheaper than buying one of the brand-names.

Therefore, I have compiled this information together as everything you’ll need to know about creating your very own MRE.

I will be going over what I had mentioned in the previous article as well as supplying you with the “how-to’s” in drying out food, properly compacting it all into air-tight storage, and the proper steps to take in preserving your MREs.

Remember, being that you’re able to decide what goes into these MREs, you have the freedom to use this information however you please.

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If not, the following are recipe items with long lasting shelf life. The only way to properly use these is with some cooking experience, so you might want to read up on that as well.

Flavors known for their longevity:

• Salt
• Sugar (brown or white)
• Raw honey
• Alcohol (Whiskey, rum, vodka, etc.)

Foundations common in most cooking recipes. These last up to a decade:

• Buckwheat
• Dry corn
• Kamut
• Hard red wheat
• Soft white wheat
• Millet
• Durum wheat
• Spelt
• Barley
• Oat groats
• Quino
• Rye
• Pinto beans
• Kidney beans
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• Lima beans
• Adzuki beans
• Garbanzo beans
• Mung beans
• Black turtle beans
• Blackeye beans
• All purpose flour
• White flour
• Whole wheat flour
• Cornmeal
• Pasta
• White rice
• Coconut oil

For short-term emergency, the following items will last around half a decade:

• Canned tuna
• Canned meats
• Canned vegetables and fruit
• Peanut butter
• Coffee
• Tea
• Ramen noodles
• Hard candy
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• Dried herbs and spices
• Apple cider vinegar
• Baking soda

MREs are known to also carry non-food items. Usually, instruments for eating.

However, being that this is your own survival kit, you can take it one step further and add some basic necessities:

• Bic lighters
• Toilet paper
• Soaps
• Bottled water
• Vitamins
• Medicines
• Bandages
• Peroxide
• Lighter fluid
• Canning supplies
• Charcoal

Realistically, you can take any of the above-mentioned products and create a perfectly sustainable MRE out of it. These items relatively well-known for survivalist adventures.

Yet, you’re going to have to know how to properly store these items. There are two means of doing this; the item’s shelf life and correctly concealing them in an airtight container for survival purposes.

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