MRE Review: Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR) Menu 3-B (2010)

Here's the "MRE Basics" video on HDRs:    • MRE Basics: Humanitarian Daily Ration (HDR)   Here's MREInfo.com's page on HDRs: http://www.mreinfo.com/other-us-ratio... Thank you to Steve1989 MREinfo for sharing this great ration with me.    / @steve1989mre   This is my first time trying out a Humanitarian Daily Ration pack. These are somewhat similar to MREs in design and content, but also very different. An MRE is designed to be a single meal, while the HDR is meant to provide a complete day's nutritional needs for a refugee or displaced person (each HDR is supposed to have a minimum of 2,200 calories). Overall this was an okay menu. The entrees were very bland, but that's by design, as the HDR contains no meats or meat by-products so it can be offered to the widest possible population and be acceptable to most people regardless of cultural, religious or dietary concerns. The included salt, pepper and crushed red pepper added a lot to the bland entrees and made them much more palatable. The HDR doesn't have any drink mixes or even a Flameless Ration Heater so I tried to eat the entrees cold. They were somewhat better when I tried to heat them up a bit. They were nothing one would get excited about eating, but I know that if I were in some sort of emergency situation and had nothing to eat except for these things I would be VERY happy to have them!