2009 Menu: Chicken Fajita

Review By Todd Farino

This has to be one of the worse MREs I've ever had the pleasure to eat.  It starts with the Chicken Fajita entree and continues with the rest of the MRE. 

Mexican Rice
Baked Snack Crackers
Cheese Spread
Tortillas
Coffee, Irish Cream Cappuccino

Entree: Chicken Fajita

The Chicken Fajita took forever to heat up.  Once I opened it up the chicken was in one big clump.  I ate it two ways.  THe first way was mixing the pepper (Seasoning Blend) with the chicken.  I then put the in a tortilla.  The chicken was bland and lacked flavor.  It wasn't easy to eat since it was in more of a clump then it was the normal way chicken looks.  The texture was all off and that was worse then it's lack of taste. 

The other way I ate it was by heating the mexican rice and mixing it with the chicken and adding that to the torilla.  It was still terrible.  The mexican rice was also very clumpy and hard to separate.  I don't like rice to begin with and MRE rice was worse.  If you have extra Tabasco sauce, use it.  This MRE doesn't come with it and that is a shame.  I did use some Tabasco sauce and it helped the meal, especially the rice.

Snack: Baked Snack Crakers / Cheese Spread
This was almost a joke.  The MRE includes cheese spread, but nothing to put the spread on.  I guess the creators of this MRE expected the soldiers to put the cheese spread on the Tortillas because there is nothing else.  The baked cheese crackers (a.k.a. Cheeseits) are bad.  They have a sick preservative taste that just makes them taste unnatural.  Also, they lack salt.

Coffee, Irish Cream Cappuccino:

This was pretty good.  I can't complain about the coffee.

What made this MRE even worse then bad was no desserts at all.  Overall, terrible MRE.

Entree: 1 Stars
Snacks:  3 StarsRest Of MRE: 2 Stars
OVERALL: