We celebrated a birthday in 29 Palms high desert after one of our guys made a cake out of MRE pound cake, with icing made from Skittles. Good times. Miss those guys every dayfound ourselves performing the role of pretend naval gangbang for forward observer school once. we were sitting in one position in a lava field at PTA on the big island of Hawaii for 2 weeks, firing 155 rounds ever few hours. it was boring with a capital B. we got the idea to see what extravigant foods we might make from our MREs. i had one kid grinding crackers into flour with a flashlight and canteen cup for mortar and pestle. we built an oven out of lava rocks, covered them with a heavy tarp, covered that with dirt. made a rack in our over out of some truck part and put a squad stove in it for the heat source. it took a full day to bake fruit pie. cracker dough, sugar sprinkles on top, apple jelly and freeze dried fruit mix. it was actually pretty good. your tax dollars at work.