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				 Re: Shepards Pie 
 
			
			SHEPARDS PIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 I love that sh!t.
 
 I lived for a month on it at basic training.  While the rest of the troops had to eat the hard/preserved rations, I had a medical reason not to.  So, I brought my own ultra-light backpacker's cookset, stove and fuel.  Before basic had started, I dehydrated the vegetables, ground them into a powder, dehydrated 15 lbs of hamburger down to about 1.5 lbs, grabbed a bunch of powdered mashed potatoes, portioned it all into 1-meal sized vacuum bags and away I went.  I was able to carry all my meals for a week in less space than the troops were carrying theirs for 2 days.  Further, my beef, vegies and potatoes reconstituted and cooked faster than they could get their meals ready, and I was the envy of everyone (including the instructors, who are supposed to be hard-asses....I proved to be the exception of many rules on basic....its my nature hehe).
 
 For that, I will always love the shepard's pie
 
 Cheers
 
 Cyanide
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