EditorialClockwise from top: Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or M.R.E. packaging, toilet paper, peanut butter packet, disposable spoon, creamy spinach fettuccine entree, packet used for storing entree while it heats, flameless ration heater (to heat up the entree), pretzels, crackers, hot sauce, salt, matches, coffee, creamer, gum, sugar, moist towelette, chocolate protein drink in Gainesville, Ga. on May 15, 2021. (Rinne Allen/The New York Times)