Rhiannon brought an MRE back from AmeriCorps with her. It was pretty good. MREs, as you undoubtedly know, are what they serve the Armed Forces when they're out in the field. Each MRE is a package of one meal for one soldier. Ours was Chicken Salsa. It included a flameless ration heater -- a little water-activated heater -- pour water onto the unit and it generates heat! There was plenty of food -- chicken with salsa, mexican rice, a vegetable cracker, jalapeno cheese sauce, hot cocoa, iced tea mix, shortbread cookies, and a pack of M&Ms. Oh, and the tiniest bottle of Tabasco sauce you ever saw, about the size of my thumb joint. Rhiannon says that if the Army recruiter who came to her high school had cracked open an MRE for the kids, she'd be in Iraq right now.
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