PERMISSABLE ITEMS FOR MILITARY SUPPORT PACKAGES

Drinks:

• Instant Coffee
  
• Powdered Gatorade
  
• Plastic Jug to mix powdered drinks
  
• Powdered hot chocolate
  
• Kool-Aid, pre-sweetened
  
• Tea bags
  
• Country Time Lemonade Mix
  

Snacks:

• Tuna in the "fresh pouch"
  
• Crackers
  
• Easy Spray Cheese
  
• Slim Jim's
  
• Triscuit and Ritz crackers
  
• Potted meat and crackers
  
• Plastic knives for spreading Plastic Spoons for eating
  
• Single servings of bagged chips - The small bags stay fresh longer
  
• Cookies
  
• Candy - M & M's, hard candy - anything that won't melt
  
• Little Debbie snack cakes
  
• Graham crackers
  
• Gobstoppers Jaw Breaker Candy
  
• Little Debbie Cakes
  
• Chocolate-dipped pretzels
  
• Pre-packaged brownies
  
• Licorice
  
• Bubble gum
  
• Snack mixes- Chex Mix, Gardetto's
  
• Cashews, peanuts, etc
  
• Pretzels
  
• Rice Krispie Treats
  
• Goldfish crackers
  
• Applesauce, pudding or fruit cups with the pop-off lids
  
• Raisins and trail mix in several small Zip Lock bags for sharing
  

Non-Microwave Meals:
Non-microwave meals have some hot meals listed that require access to boiling water - i.e. a coffee pot -
most people do have access to one or to some sort of electricity or camp fire. You can send them a one
cup coffee maker - they're very small and worth it!

• Cup 'o Noodles soups (made with hot water)
  
• Dry cereal the small, individual serving boxes stay very fresh
  
• Bowl Appetite dinners (made with hot water)
  
• Instant oatmeal or grits (Made with hot water)
  
• Breakfast bars Granola, cereal and power bars
  
• Pop tarts
  
• There are many different soup mixes available that they can just add hot water to
  

Microwave/Campfire Meals:

• Campbell's Chunky Soup - They have pop-top lids They're perfect and they can even be eaten out
  of the can if the line at the microwave is just too long
  
• Pasta Anytime dinners
  
• Dinty Moore Dinners
  
• Kraft has a line of Mac & Cheese Dinners
  
• If you send more than one package a month
  
• Microwave Popcorn - Send quite a few of these, because it gets passed around
  
• Small Cup Microwave Dinners
  

Toiletries:

• Clorox Wipes
  
• Razors & Shaving Cream
  
• Foot Powder
  
• Shampoo, Conditioner & comb
  
• After Shave & Body Lotion
  
• Soap or Body Wash
  
• Mouth Wash
  
• Deodorant
  

Information courtesy of:
Catherine A Agosta
HHSC, STB 3rd ID FRG Leader