Armed forces need a good meal while they protect and serve, but how does the food get hot using the flameless heaters included with military MREs?

Ten years of warfare have brought about notable improvements in at least one oft-maligned feature of modern military life: Meals, Ready to Eat, known as MREs--which troops in the field have graced ...

Innovation in food processing and preservation methods that began in the military soon applied in the civilian world; thus, ...

In Evansville, military food taste testers are serious about taste, and quality control, even if means taking bites of 20 different blobs of mashed potatoes grabbed from the MRE food production line.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Armed Forces Day MRE Cook-Off is set for a busy weekend at USS Battleship Memorial Park on May 17. The third Saturday of May is the day to honor everyone who has served ...

In the event water is not readily available, MREs can be eaten cold, which means the flameless heater could be discarded. Though the military tested new heating methods that worked with muddy ...