MRE

The MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) is a consumable item in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Background
The MRE, being an abbreviation for Meal Ready-to-Eat, is a highly nutritious field ration bought by the United States for military purpose, for use in combat and field conditions where organized food facilities are not available. Each meal contains about 1200 calories, or "kcal", and cover all the needs to keep a soldier's stomach and body filled and strong for a full day. It usually tend to consist of beef, meatloaf, chicken, or other nutritious forms of meat with rice and vegetables like peas and carrots, and even gravy.

Characteristics
A military individual field ration used by the United States army and found extensively in the area surrounding the Divide. The MRE contains boneless pork chop as the main course along with standard sundries. This food item is one of the few radiation free foods in the game, and its nutritional value in hardcore mode is amongst the highest found in any food, on par with the much heavier caravan lunch. The MRE provides relatively low HP restoration in hardcore mode, given its high nutritional value. However, its HP regeneration is significantly better when used outside of hardcore mode.

Locations
This is a list of fixed non-random places where you can find MRE.
 * They are often found in military shipping crates scattered all over the Divide.
 * At the Canyon Wreckage: on the left, there is a wooden board that says "Lonesome Road". In the duffle bag below this, there is an MRE.
 * If you leave Ulysses alive after the final mission, he will be at the entrance to the Canyon wreckage. You can ask him if he has recovered anything from the dust of Hopeville which will result in 4 MREs, amongst other minor loot.

Behind the scenes

 * The real-life MRE Menu No. 2 was boneless pork chop from 2000-2001. Menu No. 2 is currently Pork Rib The resale notice was added in 2001. However, the bag design more closely resembles older MREs.
 * The real-life ZIP code of Mullins, South Carolina is 29574, while ZIP code 12490 corresponds to West Camp, New York. However, the real-life MRE supplier SOPAKCO is indeed based in Mullins.