HeaterMeals is the No. 1 Shelf-Stable, Emergency Meal Used by Emergency Agencies, Businesses and the Military! We are the No. 1 Meal in Nutrition and Self-Heating Technology! We are the Original Self-Heating Meal. We invented the self-heating technology in 1990 and have since heated nearly 2 Billion Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MRE) for the U.S. Military. Over the years we have grown to offer five lines of self-heating food, beverage and soup products.