A Worldwide Day's Worth of Food
California, USA, The US Army Soldier
Name: Curtis Newcomer
Age: 20; Height: 6' 5"; Weight: 195 pounds
Caloric value of food this day: 4000 calories
MESS HALL BREAKFAST: Corned beef hash, 2.2 oz. Scrambled egg, 3 oz. Bacon, 0.7 oz. Apple, 6 oz. Otis Spunkmeyer cookie, chocolate chip, 2.3 oz.
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LUNCH MRE: (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) ham and shrimp jambalaya, 8 oz. (dry weight) MRE vegetable and cheese omelet, 8 oz. (dry weight) MRE shredded potatoes with bacon, 5 oz. (dry weight) MRE cinnamon scone, 2 oz. MRE toaster pastry, strawberry, 1.6 oz. MRE crackers, 1.3 oz. MRE Pangea World Bakers pound cake, vanilla, 2.5 oz. MRE dairy shake fortified with calcium and vitamin D, strawberry, powdered, 3.5 oz. (dry weight) MRE orange carbohydrate electrolyte beverage, powdered, 1.5 tbsp. (dry weight) MRE Crystal Light red tea, 0.5 tsp. (dry weight) MRE jam, blackberry, 2 tbsp. Frank's Red Hot pepper sauce, 1.5 tbsp.
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MESS HALL DINNER: Shrimp scampi, 2.7 oz., with Parmesan cheese, 0.5 tsp., and Frank's Red Hot pepper sauce, 1.5 tbsp. White bread, 2.5 oz. Salad of lettuce and tomato, 2.4 oz. Peas, canned, 1.8 oz. Del Monte fruit cocktail, lite, 4 oz. Famous Amos cookies, chocolate chip, 2 oz.
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THROUGHOUT THE DAY: Gatorade sports drink (3), 1.1 qt. Deja Blue bottled water (5), 2 gal. (also used to hydrate the drink powders and all MREs) Cigarettes (in sleeve pocket), 1 pack
Curtis Newcomer, photographed here at Fort Irwin, reported that he generally eats double MRE rations, but he's not gaining weight from them. When this food portrait was taken, he was preparing for his second deployment to Iraq.