Julie Bove wrote:

> "The Joneses" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>I think this is something near what we do. I don't know if I'll ever
>>*need* this stuff, but I don't need those cases of jam either. And
>>pickled b**ts are nice, but not essential. In thinking about
>>saving/preserving food for disasters, I've googled up a few recipes
>>for hardtack crackers. I can buy canned meat, but bread was a little
>>more difficult. In the Army, the c-ration crackers were not too bad,
>>if sorta tasteless. My goal is to make a long storing thick cracker
>>that tastes good. I will vacuum seal them. Maybe some with cinnamon,
>>some with garlic salt, I dunno, but I'm thinking... Egg, cheeses,
>>herbs, chocolate.
>> I don't really want to take this to rec.food.survivinghurricanes
>>or rec.food.disasters because it's really just a sort of cooking hobby
>>thing. Or is it?
>> Any thoughts?
>
>
> I've never actually tried hardtack, but from what I've read about it, it was
> not tasty at all. The very things that kept it from spoiling are the very
> things that meant it had no taste. I don't know that much about vacuum
> sealing. Would that keep the crackers crisp?
>

I've never eaten MRE's but some folks tell me they're pretty good. I ate
C-rations for years though and liked most of the selections including
the canned hardtack along with the canned jelly and peanut butter plus
the 90 year old cheese, etc.

Makes me wonder how modern GI's take field expediency baths, shave, and
cook stolen chickens and eggs in those kevlar helmets. The old steel
pots (helmets) had multiple uses for us old soldiers. Bet Mamselle Jones
"old whiskers" knows what I'm talking about. <VBG>

George