What are RCIR French rations worth?

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:27 pm

aquarius wrote: About one-and-a-half year ago I bought 40 RCIRS for only 200 euro.

€5 per RCIR

*collapsed*

Post by **German_EPA** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:47 am

thats a damn good price...

housil wrote:
aquarius wrote: About one-and-a-half year ago I bought 40 RCIRS for only 200 euro.
€5 per RCIR *collapsed*

aquarius · Post by **aquarius** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:08 pm

To make things worse: Today I bought 24 complete Dutch Army 24-hrs Rations for only 144 euro. They come complete with 2 entrees! entrees are in tin cans and in pouches.
Luckily I could pick them up, so no S&H had to be payed.
To be honest, I am not a great fan of Dutch rations, because thet lack variety. But since MRE's are almost impossible to get over here, I have to stick to my Dutchies.

Mkim340518 · Post by **Mkim340518** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 9:49 am

aquarius wrote:To make things worse: Today I bought 24 complete Dutch Army 24-hrs Rations for only 144 euro. They come complete with 2 entrees! entrees are in tin cans and in pouches.
Luckily I could pick them up, so no S&H had to be payed.
To be honest, I am not a great fan of Dutch rations, because thet lack variety. But since MRE's are almost impossible to get over here, I have to stick to my Dutchies.

Why can't you get MRE's? Is it lack of availability in the Netherlands or is it the customs and shipping regulations?

aquarius · Post by **aquarius** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:35 pm

MRE's are very hard to get here, especially for a reasonable price. Money buys it all, but I don't want to pay 10 euro for a MRE.
IN the Netherlands are no US troops stationed anymore, so left-overs are non excisting. Only the 'ration afficionados' in Germany have a possibilty to get some.

As long as items are send by US Postal Service there are no problems with customs. If items -no matter what- are coming in with Fedex or UPS there's always pa roblem. At least this is my experience.

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:43 pm

aquarius wrote:To make things worse: Today I bought 24 complete Dutch Army 24-hrs Rations for only 144 euro. They come complete with 2 entrees! entrees are in tin cans and in pouches.
Luckily I could pick them up, so no S&H had to be payed.
To be honest, I am not a great fan of Dutch rations, because thet lack variety. But since MRE's are almost impossible to get over here, I have to stick to my Dutchies.

Your posting made my curious so I deceide to have a Dutch entree for dinner:

Lasagne:

(what means Rundvlees?)

400g

more than a MRE entree

seems like

the tissue was very soft, the tast was "sweet" as the Dutch macaroni I had before also. Mrs. Housil said, it was similar as this "baby food jars"

By the way, Mrs. Housil prefered some tasty and spicy as usually:

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:17 pm

housil wrote: (what means Rundvlees?)

Rundvlees = Rindfleisch , shame on you!
If at least you called it "boeuf" or "beef" in your native tongue...

NightSniper · Post by **NightSniper** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:57 pm

aquarius wrote:MRE's are very hard to get here, especially for a reasonable price. Money buys it all, but I don't want to pay 10 euro for a MRE.
IN the Netherlands are no US troops stationed anymore, so left-overs are non excisting. Only the 'ration afficionados' in Germany have a possibilty to get some.

As long as items are send by US Postal Service there are no problems with customs. If items -no matter what- are coming in with Fedex or UPS there's always pa roblem. At least this is my experience.

Interested in trading some MRE's for some dutch rations?

YouTube · Post by **housil** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:50 pm

NightSniper wrote: Interested in trading some MRE's for some dutch rations?

You will be disapointed about dutch rations.

There is just a little card board box with:

(brit) crackers, tea, coffee, sugar, candy, bitter-sweet chocolate, tiny pate, napkin, soup, jam...
Since the Dutch troops are in action, they replaced the items by commercial supermarket items. I can post pic´s of it you want

Usually the Durch ration comes without any entree!!
They come extra and are available in cans or (same) bags as used in UK rations but 400g instead 350g

I still have "some" of them

pm me - but postage will "kill" it

But the manufacturer of the cans is the same as the manufacturer of the French RCIR cans