Queue manical laughter

She let me have posting rights! Woohoo! The evil I can do! I will take over the world, one blog at a time!

Right, power trip done. I wanted to post that the boys got to experience their first MRE last night. That's Meal, Ready-to-Eat for you non military people out there. When we were at Ryan's BBQ (good times had, great food cooked and enjoyed, and tasty tasty beer) for Memorial day, we met one of his friends and neighbors, who is active service in the Army, who very generously gave the boys each an MRE he had spare.

So, I didn't feel like cooking last night, and we had these MREs that the boys have been dying to try, so... we cracked them open last night. Nathan had the meatloaf, while Grayson had the Pot Roast. Nathan loved his, eating every bit, and as per his usual, hunting around for more food afterwards. Grayson loved the _idea_ of eating an MRE but the reality seems to have differed to his expectations.

I tried both MREs, and I have to say I was very impressed. Both were tasty, and while not 5star gourmet, I could easily live on those for a while. Though with only 24 menu items, and easily 1/2 of those being things I won't eat, I can imagine they would get old after a while if I had to subsist on them for any real length of time. But I'm glad to see we're feeding our service men and women decently when they're in the field. Apparently, this has not always been the case.