more homemade MRE

MORE HOMEMADE MRE
I’ve noticed that I’ve been slowly but surely inching back up towards my old 800-1.5k word count on articles. I was supposed to stay down at half, around 600. That would only take half my lunch hour rather than the whole thing. Lately I’ve noticed zero time left at lunch and just thought I was suffering from brain constipation, until I did a word count. At first I was thinking I should try for more booklet length work, but then ( after doing nothing extra ) I realized I was simply burning out and needed to rest. If you take the last three years of my blog and add in all the books I’ve done, the word count is close to a million. Twenty thousand words a month just for the blog. That’s several full length novels a year. The problem with the long articles is I’m constantly stressed over finding a good idea to write about. The smaller length allows less weighty ideas to be presented. Like today’s, yet another lame attempt at homemade MRE’s.
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You know how I feel about spending serious money on anything. Frugal living is cheap living which is less stress living. Okay, I know, most gals won’t give you the time of day unless you have a big fat long wallet. You can be fat, bald and have a very small member, as long as your wallet compensates. Hell, it hardly seems fair, as my only criteria for a female is she has all the parts ( well, okay, I draw the line at hugely fat ). But as you never tire of reminding me as I complain in self pity about my terrible life where the only love shown to me from myself ( being a one man marching band for all the greatness that is Jim ), life ain’t fair. Fair is were you go to sell your pig. Anyway, can we please get to the friggin point here? Another boring and overblown idea for a homemade MRE is as follows. A can of chili, a small can of sweet condensed milk and several Top Ramen packs. You’ll recall our other article. Bags of chocolate chips or jars of peanut butter. Or, everyone’s favorite, a jar of Karo corn syrup. All have 2k calories, except the PB which has 3k. But, those will soon be tiresome to eat. They all cost about the same $2 also. By spending $3 you get more variety and plenty of calories.
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Remember, we are talking about cheap, easy to prepare and plenty of fat and calories. You could go with rice and chili. Two thousand calories and two bucks. But too much prep time and fuel needed. If needed, you could eat the chili cold and the Ramen uncooked. Not as tasty, but manageable. You wake up, eat a Ramen. Snack on a Ramen for brunch, one for a late lunch. Heat up a can of chili for dinner, eaten with a Ramen. Desert is a can of sweet milk. Three thousand calories, three bucks. Plenty of fat and calories. I like the bulk of my calories at night, if you don’t you can always drink the milk at dinner. Almost two thousand calories to start the day ( the milk and a Ramen combined ). The problem with MRE’s, or at least one of the problems, is the high cost. Five to six bucks for 1200 calories. So this is half the cost for twice the calories. No one is asking you to live on this, it is for a short term emergency only. Long term food is grains and beans. Those are even cheaper and much more nutritious.
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Try a dry pack of Ramen. Crush up the noodles while in the pack. Add the seasoning pack and shake. Finger food munching, almost like a bucket of popcorn ( and about as healthy ). You’ll like it I’m sure.
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