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Looking for website recommendations for good deals on MREs and freeze dried meals. Where do you shop?

It's my understanding that it's illegal to sell genuine military MREs on the commercial market. So I don't think there's a site for that. I live near three military installations and occasionally I hear about someone or other selling MRE's. If I want to buy some I don't ask questions about how they got them. The commercial variety of MREs are no good crap.

Mountain House prices don't seem to vary very much from one site to another. There are lots of sites selling them. Just Google Mountain House. Wal Mart prices are cheaper then those at sporting goods stores. I think that MH freeze dried offerings are the least digusting. Some even bordering on edible.

I don't know anything about Peak Refuel. Here's the URL for peak Refuel at Amazon.
Peak Regfuel at Amazon

I think I would want to know about preparation. I steer clear of freeze dried products that require a lot of mixing and simmering. Something always seems to go wrong with those kind of products.

Peak refuel usually has a promo code or 2 floating around. They are IMO better than MH.

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It's seasonal but Costco carries boxes of assorted meals, 12 in a box IIRC. It's the cheapest I've seen.

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Our church's scout troop uses MRE's but we have a source - our troopmaster is a retired army ranger. He gets them at an air base near here. They're filling but they're also heavy. They have the water still in them.

Take a look at Walmart. They carry large containers of freeze dried and dehydrated foods that can be repackaged into the sizes you want. I haven't compared the prices with Mtn House but that comes packaged in individual meals. That's expensive to produce.

Wally's used to carry large containers of Wise Freeze dried foods for emergency storage. It was priced better but it was mostly vegetarian.

you can get MRE`S on the internet,just type in MRE`S,they will be shipped to your home

Bear Creek Meals from any box store such as WalMart for about $3

Peak Refuel are the very best of the Freeze Dried.

I ate enough MRE's in the Corps to never want to eat another in my lifetime again.

Are they good enough to be worth 50% more than Mtn House?

I would say yes! But in fairness I haven't ever paid for them.

Peak is definitely much better tasting and filling than most MH meals. My stomach handles the Peak meals better also. I have a buddy that gets torn up from MH. Had him try the peak and he loves them now.

MCH:

You don't know how good you had it. I ate C Rations in Viet Nam. MREs are not nearly as disgusting. But I agree with you, I don't want to eat any more of them.

I don't think I have eaten any Peak Refuel meals. I just checked the Sportsmens Warehouse web site and the entres cost $12. There is a limited selection offered on the website. They don't appear on the Walmart website.

KC

Oh I have had C Rations. MRE's are a slight step up!

If I am slumming packaged food it is going to be Peak Refuel. When the day comes that I have to pay for them I will continue to eat Peak Refuel.

I just checked the website and they state that are not military MREs. They are commercial MREs and they are even worse than the military variety.

The website also states that it's illegal to sell genuine military MREs.

I understand there have been big improvements in MRE's used today than those from my era. I would hope so, otherwise don't know why anyone would even be interested in purchasing any.

Phil