What is a typical weeks meal like in the military?

If you have been in any branch of the military - state side or overseas could you please answer this trivial question. What is a typical weeks menu like? Do you get real potatoes or instant? Do you get real eggs or are they powdered?What is a typical weeks meal like in the military?It is similar to a school cafeteria.



A typical menu for breakfast would be: eggs (usually fresh), bacon or sausage, grits, potatoes, gravy, biscuits. Fruit bar.



Lunch dinner is about the same. You have a short order line which is hamburger, fries, chicken nuggets or something similiar. Main line would be a meat selection usually chicken, potatoes or rice, vegetable. Salad bar.What is a typical weeks meal like in the military?
It varies greatly depending on where you are at... and what branch you are in...

I was in the army and stateside most chow halls are like cheap Golden Corals... you have a salad bar, and a sandwich bar, and a main line with a few different choices. (like a hamburger, chicken breast, mac+cheese) but most of them are really strict on the amount of food you can take and to me it was never worth the money they take for it. Usually there is nothing healthy to eat and depending on which cooks cook it, in can be good or terrible. Stateside they have real eggs (hard boiled) and real potatoes (diced)



Overseas its a little different. If you are on a main base, the food is better than it is in the US. The chow hall on one of the bases I was on had no limit on the amount of food you could get and always had steak, crab, chicken, a great sub bar (more than most subways have) pretty much everything you can think of. They even had a baskin robbins!

BUT when you get sent off the main base or if you are stuck on a FOB or something for your entire tour, the food quality goes down dramatically. Most of the places I was at was MRES all meals except for dinner. The food they use for "hot chow" in those places is quite amazing... not that it tastes good but in is somehow edible after it has sat in the sun for 3 months (meat and all).. They only have like 12 meals on most of those places and they are pretty basic and pretty nasty... No real food at all because if it was real it would spoil (literally sits in the sun until they cook it for months at a time)

Food is one of the main reasons the people on the small bases HATE the people that sit on the main bases in an AC office while deployed... because not only does it suck terribly, but there is usually not enough to go around and fill everyone up...



If you want to join the military and get good food, join the chair-force or join the navy and work on a submarineWhat is a typical weeks meal like in the military?Im currently on fourth deployment... and the food all depends on where you go. Trust me tho, its nothing like home. The food is very repetitive and gets old fast.What is a typical weeks meal like in the military?
I have both Air Force and Army experience. Air Force would vary from base to base but I can tell you I ate some really good food. Lots of omelets, chicken cordon bleu, crescent sandwiches, steak, lobster, fajitas, all kinds of stuff. Army wasnt bad either...a lot more MRE's, which arent bad (especially the salsa chicken).What is a typical weeks meal like in the military?Mostly it's beer and fast food, with a generous helping of snacks and coffee.