where to get civilian MREs in the US?

Post by **German_EPA** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:27 pm

hi all

a friend of me is visiting the US next week. i told him to get me some with back here. but: where to get civilian MREs in the US? walmart? gun store? ???

would be great if you can help me! maybe you know where to get which brand too.

so long... EPA

Post by **kman** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:34 pm

Where's your friend going to be staying/visiting? Will he have a shipping address? How many MREs were you looking for him to bring back?

Finding civilian MREs in stores can be hit or miss. Army/Navy Surplus stores usually have something but they're usually pretty high-priced ($8 each). Then again...if he's converting Euros, everything will probably be cheap seeing what the exchange rate is. :-)

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:46 pm

+1 on what kman said. Have him look on craigslist.org for whatever city he'll be in, I find them on there from time to time for reasonable prices..

Post by **German_EPA** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:52 pm

yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.

i should have get mres on my visit to the us in 2003 - but in that time i didnt collect rations.

kman wrote:Where's your friend going to be staying/visiting? Will he have a shipping address? How many MREs were you looking for him to bring back?

Finding civilian MREs in stores can be hit or miss. Army/Navy Surplus stores usually have something but they're usually pretty high-priced ($8 each). Then again...if he's converting Euros, everything will probably be cheap seeing what the exchange rate is.

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:29 pm

Yeah, believe when I make it to Germany I'm going to let you guys know ahead of time so I can have some stuff waiting for me.

If I lived in that area I'd be glad to hook him up, but fortunately I don't.

Post by **MCIera** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:38 pm

You should have him contact MREDepot. Maybe he can arrange to have a few pallets shipped to Germany by container cargo? Or maybe even a shipping container or two?

You could corner the market in the EU

German_EPA wrote:yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.

Post by **German_EPA** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:27 am

i was thinking of that. well - thats a PRO of the actually euro/dollar roller coaster... but what am i gonna do with 40 pallets?! apart from this i dont have that kind of money to buy that much...

the collector in me says: "YES YES YES"
the businessman in me says: "NO NO NO"

MCIera wrote:You should have him contact MREDepot. Maybe he can arrange to have a few pallets shipped to Germany by container cargo? Or maybe even a shipping container or two? You could corner the market in the EU

German_EPA wrote:yeah - 1 euro = 1,50 dollar. there is many pro/contra with this... but thats another thing...

he is going to california / san diego - L.A.

the town where he is going to exactly i forgott.