Great deal on Mountain House Emergency Foods

[kman]

Hi guys. I occasionally read another forum - ar15.com - and just saw this great "group buy" offer they have going now. It expires on Sept. 30 so if you're interested, you should check it out right away.

They have a deal with Mountain House foods (they make freeze-dried/dehydrated food - in cans or pouches - these are the guys who make the entrees for the RCWs and MCWs - in fact, the "Pro-Pak Meals" are the same as the MCW meals). Anyway...I'll post the links below for the details but here's the summary:

Quick run-down/process of the Group Buy:
Look over the price sheets, email your order to me, at the cut-off date for me to receive orders (TBA), I will contact Mtn House and receive shipping totals for each individual order (orders over $500 receive FREE shipping!), I will then email you with your total amount due, then you send payment by the cut-off date for payments (TBA), I then send one wire transfer to Mtn House and they drop ship the orders to your front door.

The prices look pretty amazing - 6 #10 cans of Chili Mac for $67.50. On Mountain House's site, that goes for $135. And the Pro-Paks are $18.90 for six vs. $31.74.

I can't vouch for the deal personally but I'm probably going to participate. I encourage you to read through the entire thread on ar15.com to check for references, etc.

Here're the links:

AR15.com thread
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b ... 475&page=1

Part of thread with links to Mountain House reviews
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b ... 475&page=4

One guy posted an excel spreadsheet to help you make your order
http://members.tcq.net/davepen/mountain.house.xls

Mountain House's website
http://www.mountainhouse.com/

One last thing...you probably have to be a member of ar15.com to order. But it's free and it's a cool board for AR-15 and AK-47 enthusiasts (ak47.net is the same site).

[kman]

Wow...just went through the speadsheet and put a "1" by everything I was interested in...$1000. Ouch. But it is 174 pouches and 35 cans so I'm sure it's a good deal...but it's still a lot of money. Too bad you have to order everything quantity of 6. I just need to find someone around Charlotte who'd want to split an order up.

[kman]

Ok...so I dug into it a little bit more. With the cans (8 servings each) you average about $1.40-$1.80 per serving. With the pouches (2 servings each), it's more like $1.63-$1.78 per serving.

So if I cut out the cans I had listed, the price gets a little easier to stomach (no pun intended).

[BackwoodsPundit]

Too bad I missed this deal

I am thinking of making an order with LDP camping foods ( http://www.ldpcampingfoods.com/ ) - their prices are the lowest I have seen besides that group buy - and he has a discount that increases the more you buy , on TOP of the already lower prices.

For 100 bucks of stuff, it's a 14% discount, which is not too bad.

I am trying to decide whether getting 10 days or so of survival food for my (small) family is worth 140 bucks - including shipping - and more importantly how not to get killed by my wife lol...

I am hoping the mountain house chili mac is as good as the MRE variety of course cause I wnt to order 2 cans worth to start.

[kman]

If you can hold out for maybe a few months, there might be another group buy. Keep in mind...six #10 cans of Chili Mac was only $67.50. So that same $140 could buy you 12 cans total - and that would definitely feed you for more than 10 days.

I got in on the deal but I just picked up the pouches - none of the cans. Otherwise, I'd be happy to sell you a couple at cost. Maybe it'd be worth a message on the ar-15 thread to see if anyone wanted to part with a can or two?

[thechip1]

If you are looking for Mountain House foods (just the pouches) I found a place that has them pretty cheap. It's http://www.karstsports.com/. Their ProPak single serving pouches are the cheapest I've seen anywhere, and shipping was only $4.95. Plus they were nice to work with.