Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:41 pm
I would be interested in a couple if this goes through...
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My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
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Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:08 am
I would be interested as well. Has anyone confirmed if they cam/will ship to North America?
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:57 am
When I contacted them roughly 6 months ago they said they wouldn't do it at all anymore (ship to the US) and I tried pretty hard to convince them to change their minds with no luck - sorry!
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:01 am
How about this. Could somebody in Europe place an order for some and have them shipped over to the USA? I'm sure some of us could come up with some money to forward to whomever and have them place a bulk order.
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:32 pm
I bought mine from UK.
Shipment from UK -> Germany GBP 85 = $135
Shipment from Germany -> US €45 (up to 10 kg = 4 Rations) = $60
4 Rations = GBP 64 = $100
To send 4 rations that way - IF they make it thrue US customs - is $ 295
So a single multi climate ration will be $ 73.75
Still interrested?
Shipment from UK -> Germany GBP 85 = $135
Shipment from Germany -> US €45 (up to 10 kg = 4 Rations) = $60
4 Rations = GBP 64 = $100
To send 4 rations that way - IF they make it thrue US customs - is $ 295
So a single multi climate ration will be $ 73.75
Still interrested?
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:13 pm
yeah, not so much. It was math much like that that was the dealbreaker for some cases of RCIRs I found from a guy in Paris.
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:56 am
Seems theres quite some interest in Uk rations lately, maybe since they started putting less beans in the meals? 
Did you guys know the Vestey parent company produce meals for the wayfarer and Be Well brands also?
http://www.bewellexpeditionfoods.com/home.php
http://www.westlerfoods.com/Wayfayrer.html
Some of the wrestler / wayfarer packs you will recognise from older UK rations such as the meatballs and pasta and the bacon and beans.
Be Well expedition foods range contains most of the current ration pack main meals.
Not quite sure if Vestey own these other brands, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
*EDIT* Oh and for any UK members out there, this - http://rations.vesteyfoods.com/other_products.asp - might be of interest if you want cheap mountain house stuff.
Did you guys know the Vestey parent company produce meals for the wayfarer and Be Well brands also?
http://www.bewellexpeditionfoods.com/home.php
http://www.westlerfoods.com/Wayfayrer.html
Some of the wrestler / wayfarer packs you will recognise from older UK rations such as the meatballs and pasta and the bacon and beans.
Be Well expedition foods range contains most of the current ration pack main meals.
Not quite sure if Vestey own these other brands, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
*EDIT* Oh and for any UK members out there, this - http://rations.vesteyfoods.com/other_products.asp - might be of interest if you want cheap mountain house stuff.
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:32 pm
Having had to live on these things I feel qualified to post!
The box you have there is slightly different from the ones we have out in theatre - you dont get a beans based breakfast and a muesli its one or the other.
I personally love and hate them. I hate the fact that so many calories are in the nuts and the fruit and nut bags. I don't enjoy them and would much rather have biscuits brown back - these rations just arent savoury enough, you find yourself jealously hoarding biscuits brown and biscuits fruit from older rations hanging around.
Most of the new breakfasts are delicious. The toasted muesli in the brown bags are superb - crisp and fruity. The strawberry and oat breakfast is made by God himself - smooth and creamy with sweet strawberry bits in. The normal oat breakfast is a bit stodgy and the muesli in the silver bag tastes like rotten cheese, I dont know if it was a bad batch or something but it was unpalatable.
The whole tuna lunch thing gets very boring but the meals themselves are succulent and flavoursome. The mock ham and noodles makes a change but I don't get why its mock ham and not real ham! I personally really miss the chocolate and biscuits of the old rations for lunch.
The main meals are all delicious and I do enjoy the new puddings, the wet pack fruit is refreshing and tasty and are complements by the more stodgy puddings from the old rations.
The snacks are a big dissappointment - we could have gone down the MRE route and had a more varied and exotic selection. The jam shortbreads and oreo's are popular but I don't really like either - the jam shortbreads are the NZ ones and have an odd after taste. The cereal bars are literally hard as brick and quite plain tasting and chewy. The castus fruit bars annoy me because they are literally 99% fig and about 0.1% the fruit on the wrapper - nobody eats them - nobody eats the nuts much either.
The drinks are excellent - the water flavouring breaks up the monotony of water and the energy drinks are palatable and serve a purpose. The fruit pouches are totally delicious - imagine drinking a fruit puree - very refreshing. With the vitamin energy drink, the muesli, the wet packed fruit and the fruit puree drink you feel like you're eating more healthily than the old rations.
I think take the snack items from the old ration with some more variety (ie if you like nuts then put in different types of commercial nuts like salted peanuts and roasted cashews not plain old nuts), the breakfasts from the new ones and the main meals and puddings and you'd have a spot on ration.
The box you have there is slightly different from the ones we have out in theatre - you dont get a beans based breakfast and a muesli its one or the other.
I personally love and hate them. I hate the fact that so many calories are in the nuts and the fruit and nut bags. I don't enjoy them and would much rather have biscuits brown back - these rations just arent savoury enough, you find yourself jealously hoarding biscuits brown and biscuits fruit from older rations hanging around.
Most of the new breakfasts are delicious. The toasted muesli in the brown bags are superb - crisp and fruity. The strawberry and oat breakfast is made by God himself - smooth and creamy with sweet strawberry bits in. The normal oat breakfast is a bit stodgy and the muesli in the silver bag tastes like rotten cheese, I dont know if it was a bad batch or something but it was unpalatable.
The whole tuna lunch thing gets very boring but the meals themselves are succulent and flavoursome. The mock ham and noodles makes a change but I don't get why its mock ham and not real ham! I personally really miss the chocolate and biscuits of the old rations for lunch.
The main meals are all delicious and I do enjoy the new puddings, the wet pack fruit is refreshing and tasty and are complements by the more stodgy puddings from the old rations.
The snacks are a big dissappointment - we could have gone down the MRE route and had a more varied and exotic selection. The jam shortbreads and oreo's are popular but I don't really like either - the jam shortbreads are the NZ ones and have an odd after taste. The cereal bars are literally hard as brick and quite plain tasting and chewy. The castus fruit bars annoy me because they are literally 99% fig and about 0.1% the fruit on the wrapper - nobody eats them - nobody eats the nuts much either.
The drinks are excellent - the water flavouring breaks up the monotony of water and the energy drinks are palatable and serve a purpose. The fruit pouches are totally delicious - imagine drinking a fruit puree - very refreshing. With the vitamin energy drink, the muesli, the wet packed fruit and the fruit puree drink you feel like you're eating more healthily than the old rations.
I think take the snack items from the old ration with some more variety (ie if you like nuts then put in different types of commercial nuts like salted peanuts and roasted cashews not plain old nuts), the breakfasts from the new ones and the main meals and puddings and you'd have a spot on ration.
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 5:11 am
Hi,
just as a hint, there are currently some on ebay germany for sale. I just got mine
There was a sheet in it: 24 hr multi climate ration trail - Feedback and prize draw entry form (closing date 30th September 2010
)
The items are BBE end of 2012.
Good if you want to avoid shipping costs from UK to germany...
cheers
just as a hint, there are currently some on ebay germany for sale. I just got mine
There was a sheet in it: 24 hr multi climate ration trail - Feedback and prize draw entry form (closing date 30th September 2010
)The items are BBE end of 2012.
Good if you want to avoid shipping costs from UK to germany...
cheers
Re: My first UK Multi Climate Ration Pack
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:05 pm
Those are great prices, cheaper than REI by about a doller. Plus they're doing the Brit menu, (Tikka and such) that we never see in the US.MrFahrenheit wrote: *EDIT* Oh and for any UK members out there, this - http://rations.vesteyfoods.com/other_products.asp - might be of interest if you want cheap mountain house stuff.
Those are the single serving tho, If you've been hiking or something, you may still be a bit hungry.