How do people heat up packaged food during a flood?

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Let's say the place is flooded and the army or airforce drop food packets. Do these food packets contain only ready to eat food like biscuits, bread etc or do they contain stuff like noodles, soup powder etc.

I've bought ready to eat pre cooked MTR stuff made for army, but that has instructions to cook for 5 minutes in a pan. It's too cold to eat imo. If a person is wet and shaking with cold, hot food would be great to eat instead of ice cold meal or biscuits. A hot cup of coffee would be better.

How is stuff like noodles etc cooked without access to hot water or fire in such situations?
 
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Nice question..
I was a victim of earthquake... so it was mostly parle-g biscuits but the locals worked together and provided rice(kinda biryani) to locals.I lived near to a Gurudwara,so they were the major contributors for the help.

Also,one of my friends was helper in flood victims, I will ask him what they sent for food items and report back here..
 
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I regularly eat MTR (rice dishes) when i travel by train. Room temp, but i don't mind. I use a long spoon and eat directly from the packet. 10000 times better and safer than railway food.

I considered using a couple of exothermic heating pads to warm up the pack, but never got around to buying them. Had seen them ages ago at some exhibition. Something like this.

P.s. MTR RTEs do not require cooking. They're completely pre-cooked. The 5 mins is just to get it to a nice eatable temperature.
 
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On this topic I was wondering what astronauts eat when in space and found one video on YouTube.



I wonder if ISRO is developing food packets for our future space astronauts?
 
Cereal/energy bars cost too damn much. Else they're a nice option.

The HDRs look pretty decent at 2000+ Cal. A pack of MTR bisibele bhaat is approx. 450. Btw, MTRs packaging tech was supposedly developed by DRDO for the military. Interestingly, my bro said when he was posted in high altitude locations in northern india for the air force, a soldier could barely eat half of one packet because of the extreme cold.
 
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Cereal/energy bars cost too damn much. Else they're a nice option.

The HDRs look pretty decent at 2000+ Cal. A pack of MTR bisibele bhaat is approx. 450. Btw, MTRs packaging tech was supposedly developed by DRDO for the military. Interestingly, my bro said when he was posted in high altitude locations in northern india for the air force, a soldier could barely eat half of one packet because of the extreme cold.
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I tried that bisibele bhaat some time back for breakfast one day. I felt it was too little. Just 10 minutes after eating it, I felt hungry again. I felt that the quantity was made for small kids.
Taste was not good though. I prefer home made cause green chillies give some really good taste to such south indian food. And if in cold winter conditions, I'll probably need 3-4 packets of these to keep me full.
 
Yeah, the quantity is pretty less, 300gm. As i mentioned, it's only ~450 Cal. Would need at least two to have some effect. But it's perfect for train journeys, supplemented with biscuits etc. Taste i thought was ok, yes not spicy at all but that's probably to suit all palates. Again, way better option than eating train food.

Their pav bhaji is probably the only one good for one person, i have 6-8 pavs with it, and some spice to it too. People say it's not that good, but i feel it's better than some restaurant's toxic offerings. This one though needs to be had hot, with chopped onions and lemon squeeze.
 
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