MRE

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

Characteristics
A military individual field ration used by the United States army and findable 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. Unlike the Caravan Lunch, it does NOT reduce dehydration in Hardcore mode, so it is recommended to carry water with you.

The MRE provides relatively low HP restoration in hardcore mode, given its high nutritional value. Notably, however, its HP regeneration is significantly better when used outside of hardcore mode, presumably to compensate for its lack of utility in sating hunger.

Even so, the combined weight of 50 each MRE and Purified Water is all of 75lbs. 50 Caravan Lunch weighs 125lbs. Not something I'd carry a lot of. The only REAL advantage the Caravan Lunch has over the MRE is availability, it can be made at any campfire or Electric Hot Plate one can find, provided you have the ingredients.

Locations
This is a list of fixed non-random places where you can find MRE.


 * At the Canyon Wreckage: on the left, there is a wooden board that says "Lonesome Road". In the duffle bag below this, there is a MRE.


 * If you leave Ulysses alive after the final mission, he will be at the entrance to 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.