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**The Reaper** · 05-10-2007, 13:38

Shar:

Good info.

When you get here and get hooked up with a local church, maybe we can get together and tag along with you on a trip to Greensboro.

Since you mentioned you have a dish fetish, I feel it is only fair to warn you that one of the largest dish replacement companies in the US, Replacements Limited, is located in Greensboro. http://www.replacements.com/index.htm

MREs are expensive to make and are best stored in cool temperatures. The menu changes for good reason, since eating them for very long is quickly monotonous. The cheapest way to get them is to ask around military people who deploy a lot. Like SF. If your hubby won't hook you up, someone in his unit might have some extras. I have to tell you that you can save money on the MREs by just buying the entrees and skipping all of the packaging, accessories, heaters, toilet paper, etc. The companies that package the entrees also sell them separately.

PCS time is a great chance to get ahead on meds.

The details of the Mountain House buy (from Oregon Freeze Dry, who packs MH food) are further back in this thread, they were with Broadsword at WarRifles.com and they appear to do them regularly. IIRC, someone said that they were doing an MRE entree buy as well. They have some rules, but I found it realtively easy to order and they were delivered to my door. The discount, for #10 cans was somewhere around 50% and the shipping (for orders over $500) was free. The people putting the deal together semed pretty trustworthy and easy to deal with.

HTH.

TR

05-10-2007, 13:38	#417
The Reaper Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Free Pineland Posts: 24,836	Shar: Good info. When you get here and get hooked up with a local church, maybe we can get together and tag along with you on a trip to Greensboro. Since you mentioned you have a dish fetish, I feel it is only fair to warn you that one of the largest dish replacement companies in the US, Replacements Limited, is located in Greensboro. http://www.replacements.com/index.htm MREs are expensive to make and are best stored in cool temperatures. The menu changes for good reason, since eating them for very long is quickly monotonous. The cheapest way to get them is to ask around military people who deploy a lot. Like SF. If your hubby won't hook you up, someone in his unit might have some extras. I have to tell you that you can save money on the MREs by just buying the entrees and skipping all of the packaging, accessories, heaters, toilet paper, etc. The companies that package the entrees also sell them separately. PCS time is a great chance to get ahead on meds. The details of the Mountain House buy (from Oregon Freeze Dry, who packs MH food) are further back in this thread, they were with Broadsword at WarRifles.com and they appear to do them regularly. IIRC, someone said that they were doing an MRE entree buy as well. They have some rules, but I found it realtively easy to order and they were delivered to my door. The discount, for #10 cans was somewhere around 50% and the shipping (for orders over $500) was free. The people putting the deal together semed pretty trustworthy and easy to deal with. HTH. TR __________________ "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910 De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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