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BB has been a very busy boy tonight! Going a for a closure record?
Got my second case of butter delivered today. Again, no dents and perfectly packed. My solar battery recharger is also on backorder, apparently a lot of us thought the recharger was a good prep item to have!
Why can’t I see the battery recharger on the menu anywhere??
LauraB – at 21:35 --- Nah! ;-) I did that back in July….closed over 50 threads in one hour!
Heh heh…but it does look impressive, doesn’t it? :-)
Just ordered case of butter and some sample MRE’s tonite. Should have read this thread sooner. I had ordered butter and cheese about 2 months ago. Like the present prices much better. When I get more money, I’ll have to try the meat and hopefully they will get stock of some new items. Thanks everyone for helping bring this discount come about.
Took my monthly trip to COSTCO Yesterday. Wanted to compare there MRE’s to MRE Depots. They did not carry them. I quess all Costco Stores do not stock the same Items. The store I went to is in Deleware.
Anon: Costco runs on a regional basis, so what one region carries another might not, especially more specialy items.
Deborah - what solar recharger did you get? I’ve lost all my info on that and that’s another item on my list. Thanks!
LauraB - Deluxe Solar Battery Charger with Meter, $18.92 with the fluwikie discount. The item is not currently listed on the website, it looks to have been taken down while they are out of stock. I am guessing they will list it again when they get more.
I just ordered a dozen cans of cheese and 6 cans of butter and 1 can of dried eggs. It came to $57.55 before shipping (to South Carolina).
I was going to add two of the emergency sleeping bags, but their addition (less than a pound of weight) resulted in another $13 of shipping. Very funny! Not on my budget … Maybe the shipping is based on order cost, not necessarily weight?
Anon7588, I’m in SC and the Costco here stocks the MREs, supporting the idea that it may be a regional stocking trend.
I’ve heard they are here in AL too, but I haven’t been by my Costco in awhile…HOWEVER, I’ll still be ordering my MRE’s that I want to have shipped to family from MREdepot and let them handle the boxes & labels, etc rather than me drag ‘em to the mailing station myself! :-)
Hi All;
Just a quick update - Honeyville got back to me this morning with an offer of 12% off on some items ;-( Obviously I just replied that we already know they offer 10% on ALL items, and another 2% won’t make much of a difference. Plus, only including some of their items will make it difficult for us to track.
I’m going to call mredepot and see if I can enlist their support - maybe they can make a phone call and help somehow… It’s worth a try.
Haven’t had much time lately to contact any new ones, and haven’t heard anything still from the ones I contacted. I’ll put some time into them this weekend.
I’ll keep you posted.
Why don’t you do what you did when you were trying to get into MRE depot - Get a feel for the order volume from folks here. That looked powerfully persuasive to me.
Since we’re now on the third page for this topic, I think it may be wise to post the discount again so everyone won’t need to scroll back through hunders of postings on the earlier thread.
Go to www.mredepot.com for 21% off on everything on their site - enter promotional code fluwikie when you checkout, and the discount is automatically applied. This is now a permanent discount for us without an expiration date!!
That’s actually a GREAT idea barn owl, should have thought of that myself, thanks!
Does everything think I should start a new thread for it, or should we do it here?
Do it in a new thread - new name. Make it easy for everybody else to see what you are trying to do without confusing it with a title for the other buying project.
Does everything think I should start a new thread for it, or should we do it here?
New Thread, with differing title.
Just to throw this in the mix, I’ve ordered from Mountain Brook Foods cause they have small cans and I can try out different things without a large investment. I went looking on the net for a discount and found one from last month another site got:
“A reminder that Mountain Brook Foods of Tracy, California is running a special one month sale just for SurvivalBlog readers. Until the end of October, the following discounts will be available for in-stock items only: 20% off Orders of $100 to $249 30% off Orders of $250 to $499.99 40% off Orders over $500, not to exceed $2,500.”
I found a 30% off coupon for last July for the same group (I think). They may be interested in our business.
Got my butter and cheese today. Thanks so much!
Fully Prepped In SoCal – at 12:38 Does everything think I should start a new thread for it, or should we do it here?
Absolutely new thread. How about “Honeyville Group Order”
FPISC, I think you SHOULD start a new thread, BUT why don’t you set up the title as something like “Potential Group Buy….” . When one got started for batteries, it got muddled between actual discussion of that discount & everyone else throwing in their 2 cents about every battery site on the planet! :-) So I started a thread for Good Deals on Batteries, and we can go back to Group Buy on Batteries if we luck out and get one!
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Great suggestions all, thanks!
I’ll create a new thread and post the link as soon as I have the intro written.
Just got an email from Steve at mredepot, 30 minutes after I emailed him questions about my delivery. WOW, what great service.
I placed a huge order and ended up with only 10.95 for shipping, to Chicago! I played with my order after someone from Virginia posted that their shipping was only 10.95! They had ordered 360 MREs. This is what I’ve found: If you order the large pack of MRE’s (10 case) shipping is only 10.95 for that and everything else you order. I have a pallet coming with a generator, case of butter, case of cheese and 10 cases of MREs all being delivered for 10.95. That way my 21% discount was really a 21% discount. WOW is all I can say about that, and since I’m splitting the cost of the generator with my sisters as a gift for Mom and Dad for Christmas my cost per MRE came out very reasonable. I hope to only use the MREs as a food fatigue buster but I think I’ll keep some in the car when I travel.
I just ordered more mre’s, dried fruit, some high calorie bars to perhaps give away to people and stuff for my neighbors. I have alot of big cans of meat, gonna look for some smaller cans now.
The MRE’s say MRE style. So, I am assuming they aren’t the real deal. I have ordered cheese and butter from MRE depot with wonderful results. I have not ordered the MRE’s from them, or anybody else, because it was too confusing trying to figure out if I was getting what I was “wanting” to get… plus, they are pricey. If I order MRE’s, and pay the “price”, I want to make sure I am getting the product I am really after. Does anybody know what I am talking about? There is suppose to be a way you know it is “real” by the lettering on the box and package. Thanks.
Here is an example of what I was talking about, http://www.mreinfo.com/buying-mres.html
EnoughAlready – at 02:32
Just e-mail Steve at MRE Depot. The man answers my e-mails very quickly and at all hours of the day. scyros AT MREDepot dot com.
EnoughAlready – at 02:34
You need to go ahead and place your MRE order with MREdepot what you’ll save on shipping will be a windfall, but the bottom line is that you have nothing to worry about.
From the link that you provided the guy readily tells you what he thinks is the difference between the civilian MRE’s and the military style and it’s issues that either aren’t true or don’t matter. For instance, he says the civilian MRE’s don’t have a heater. Yes, a lot of them do. MRE sells A-Pak MRE’s which come with their own heaters.
Another difference he points out is the amount of food. Go back and read my post above about the MRE’s my husband and I ate — I couldn’t finish mine all in one sitting — I was too full; it would have to bean a meal that I spread out over the entire day if I’d had to. Preferably I’d eat 2 a day if I was chopping wood outside or doing other heavy work — check the calories I listed above and you’ll see what I mean.
Another thing he complained about was the size and quality of the spoon. Give me a break. Unless you’re eating out of your GO bag, you could eat your MRE with your own steak knife and sterling spoons and forks out of your own kitchen if you want to.
I’ve bought MRE’s with the Tabasco bottle — they leak and leave you with nothing. Are you going to want to put Tabasco on Chicken Tettrazini anyway? The only real seasonings you need are salt and pepper — the rest is icing on the cake. I purchased $150 of condiments — dressings, powders, spreads, spices and things like soy sauce, etc from www.minimus.biz and put a ziplock bag into my GO bags for future use.
And I feel like having 6 menus, 2 of each variety, is plenty of choice for the circumstances — if you’re down to eating MRE’s daily, then you’d be glad to eat the cardboard box for variety if you had to — at that point you’ve got bigger worries than whether you have a choice of chicken entrees or not! :-)
Here’s the info from the link you provided. I don’t think these are important issues: Buying Civilian MREs It’s easier to find civilian MREs because their commercial sale is not restricted as are sales of military MREs.
Why buy civilian MREs? It’s a personal choice. I suspect the main reason is that if you eat a civilian MRE and get sick, you have someone to sue. :-) If you buy a military MRE off Ebay and get sick, you’re out of luck (IANAL). That being said, I personally prefer military MRE’s over civilian MREs for the following reasons:
1. More menu choice - each case of military MREs contain 12 different menus. Civilian MRE usually only contain 6 menus (two of each).
2. Heaters - standard in military MREs, they’ll cost you extra as an add-on for civilian MREs.
3. More food - the only civilian MRE that comes close to the amount of food in a military MRE is the Sopakco Sure-Pak II variety. The other kinds (Sopakco M-Packed II and Wornick Mil-Spec) don’t have as much food (no candy, not as many sides).
4. Tobasco - military MREs (except for some of the 2003+ menus) contain little bottles of Tobasco sauce. Civilian MREs might have tobasco or they might have seasoning packets.
5. The spoon. Here’s a military MRE spoon next to a civilian MRE spoon. The military spoons are much easier to eat with and their longer lengths make it easier to dig into those entree pouches.
[Spoon Update! I have been informed that the spoons included in the Sopakco Civilian MREs are now the standard long brown spoons found in the military MREs. I’ll leave this item in the list for now since there might still be older Sopakco MREs out there with the older spoons.]
You also forgot one point.
Possession of MRE’s labeled for military use only is a felony.
You don’t have the same problem with the “civilian” MRE’s.
The components are the same.
In the A-Pack case, the only difference is the outer wrapping and less seasonings.
Have bought a few cases of the Sopacko MREs from Meyers in California. After the first order he will give you the 6–10 case price he claims, which is about $59 a case, less is you order more, and with the reduced shipping direct from SC? think the price is the same as MRE depot, at least for me here on the East coast. Do not know how Sopacko versus MRE depots MREs compare. Had talked to Jeff Meyers a while back to see if we could get a discount, he seemed to be reluctant as he did not know whether he could provide good service if too many orders, and did claim as above that the Sopacko MREs had more content/calories? Fully Prepped in SoCal, do you have another update on how much mredepot has sold to fluwiki members? Maybe I could use that to persuade Meyers to give us a discount. Thanks NM
I don’t think it is quite fair to ask a business to provide information about their sales so that the information can be used against them - to drive business for MREs from them to a competiting company selling MREs.
Irene—Well, for some folks one might be cheaper than the other, and I think the idea here is to give fluwikians a chance to buy at the best price. Also, I believe that some other companies have or will agree to give us a discount when they see how much business we have given to MREdepot. Most of these companies have some overlap in the products they sell for storage, emergency use anyway. I have bought from 4 or 5 companies and have found them all to have a fairly good selection, decent prices, and excellent customer care and service. There seems to be plenty of business for all of them, probably more to come as the word of the possibility of Pandemic starts infiltrating the MSM. Although my attempts at spreading the word has had limited success, if each one of us converts a few, it will multiply.. Think I read here that after just a few weeks or a month we had already spent about 25K with MREDepot.
FPISC,
Any movement on the Honeyville situation? I am holding off on a large order until we hear more from you. I think 20% is a fine discount (when you consider MRE Depot is 21%), but I would like to see it applied across the board. I suspect the increased sales volume overall would more than offset any margin contraction on items with more narrow margins. I’d love to place this order soon and with a nice discount! :-)
Edna Mode; Unfortunately, I haven’t heard a peep from Honeyville. They never even answered my last e-mail from last week or my two phone calls. I’ve been trying to think of an approach to use, but am drawing a blank. I held off on creating a new thread, as I want to be sure that they are going to work with us before I get everyone’s hopes up, and not hearing back from them by phone or e-mail is making me a little nervous. I guess I got spoiled by finding a willing an eager partner in mredepot. No one else has been as open to our idea since then…
And speaking of an idea, that gives me one - I think I’ll call mredepot tomorrow and see if I can get them to initiate a call, or even better a conference call with Honeyville. Maybe they have a little more pull being a customer of theirs. I’ll give that a try an let everyone know how it goes.
Meanwhile, if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!!
Thanks for the update FPISC. It may be that Honeyville doesn’t want to encourage an influx of orders at this time. It’s one thing for a business to offer a great deal, another to fulfill it. I’m surprised they aren’t answering your inquiries though.
You may be right EM. They are a pretty big company, but they definately specialize in supplying the bakery/food service industry from what I saw. So I suspect that their food storage/online portion may be tougher to deal with for them or lower margin (or both).
The good news is that Steven at mredepot just e-mailed me back that he would make the call first to honeyville himself, and then see if he cand set up a conference bridge and dial me in with their permission. He thinks he may be help, so I am encouraged again that we may be able to get this moving again.
I’d like to put this one behind us so we can move on to the next one, as my list of compmanies has been growing, and my day job has been too demanding lately;-)
Fully Prepped… - Thanks again for all your work on our behalf! I’m in the same situation as Edna Mode and would love to get in an order for SP pails of rice and wheat, maybe more beans, sometime in the next thirty days. I wish that there was something that I could do/get for you! Anything you’d fancy from Maine for your preps? ;-)
Honeyville must be swamped with orders. My past orders from them went very smoothly and they seemed quite nice. MREdepots have been the greatest to do business with though. Please know that if this Honeyville deal doesn’t pan out, you are still tops with me!!! Hope your job(s) settle down soon. bd
Fully Prepped: thank you for all your hard work
FPISC, If you become too busy with your “real” life and need an assist on the Honeyville negotiations, let me know at emode at nhpandemicplanner dot com. I know a lot about Honeyville’s operations (not as much as you since I’ve never visited them directly), and I am in almost daily e-mail contact with Steve Cyros at MRE Depot on a NH order I am putting together. I could comfortably step in to help coordinate this to ease some of the burden on you, and I’d be happy to do so if it means keeping the momentum moving forward. Steve, of course, knows me by my real name, not as EM, so that won’t ring any bells with him.
Anyway…holler if I can help you in any way.
See that right there is what makes this place so great — it’s so very nice of people to offer to help you FP, and I want to add MY thanks again as well for all YOUR hard work and for the willingness of others to try and be of assistance!
OK, I just got my order, all 369 pounds of it. It’s like a birthday and Christmas all rolled into one! I don’t know if anyone has listed the different kinds of MREs, so if your curious here’s what I got:
Chili with Beans Kit: 1210 cals
Beef Stew Kit: 1300 cals
Spaghetti w/Meat and Sauce Kit: 1310 cals
Chicken with Black Beans and Rice Kit: 1180 cals
Chicken Noodle Kit: 1180
Chicken Tetrazzini Kit: 1130 cals
I had a nice chat with Steve yesterday about my delivery. What a nice guy. Thank’s to all the folks at MREdepot.com for all your hardwork filling our orders. If anyone is still looking at generators I would suggest you compare them to the ones on this site because the one I got (with electric start) beats what I have found in my comparision shopping.
I also ordered the oxygen absorbers. I didn’t realize they were so small. I’m very glad they are because I didn’t want to loose to much head room in my jars. Now I can finish “processing” the jars sitting on my counter.
Hats off to you folks! Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks EM & evryone else as well for the offers of help. I may take you up on that for the next couple of ones we put together, although I am hoping that things slow down after Thanksgiving (next week, can you believe that) at work so I can put more time into this.
I do have good news on Honeyville though, looks like we are back on track. Mredepot has been speaking with a different contact over there who is working on getting something done for us. It appears as though I may not have gone high enough and may have been dealing with the wrong person - without mre’s help, I’m not sure we would have gotten this done. So if we get honeyville wrapped up, they get a lot of the credit!!
We have gone back and forth a few times yesterday and today by e-mail on the particulars, and it appears as though the last remaining hurdle is the time frame. They are not real open to having this go for too long (not sure why), but promised us an answer today or tomorrow, so we should get some resolution soon.
I’ll let everyone know the particulars as soon as I have them.
Thanks!!
Honeyville’s business model is more sensitive to swings in commodity prices in grains, etc.
Probably why they are not willing to do a long-term discount if they buy raw materials on the spot commodity market.
Fully Prepped In SoCal – at 16:35
Thanks for your work in getting this together. I finally ordered just now - two cases of butter and cheese each. I told DH and he’s one happy man.
BG; That makes sense, never thought about that. With the volume they do, and commodity prices fluctuation by the minute, that could be the concern. What is cheap today for them may be expensive tomorrow.
I may have spoken too soon earlier - just got an e-mail from honeyville saying he’s not sure he can make this work for us beyond the 10%. The only good thing is he CC’d mredepot, and Steve replied to all shortly after to ask honeyville and I to wait until they talk tomorrow before I give up on it.
I just don’t get it - they rolled out the red carpet for me when I drove down there to visit them. Made it sound like they would bend over backwards for us - now I wonder what has changed.
Oh well, I’m giving them ‘til tomorrow, as I know some are waiting to place large orders, so I’ll check in a few times throughout the day and get us the final word. Then it is on to the next!! ;-)
PS BeWell; You are very welcome, glad the mredepot buy is still working out and everyone is still taking advantage of it! Mredepot said to honeyville a couple of days ago (and BCC’d me) that they had done over $50K in business, so I guess a lot of us must still be taking advantage of it, that’s great to hear!!
FPISC, I really think you should start a separate Honeyville thread to ask people what they will be ordering in the coming X weeks/months whatever so you can give Honeyville a sense.
I, for example, am holding off on ordering four cases of instant milk substitute, at least 200–300 pounds of various grains, and assorted other odds and ends, a case or two of eggs, and at least several cans up to a full case of TVP. And that’s before a discount. If I were getting 20% off, my order would likely be larger.
I think if Honeyville had a better sense of what to expect, they might be more responsive to working with us.
Could someone please post me a link for the mredepot. Last night when I went to order, they were charging me $200 for shipping 10 case Mre and genny. Upthread someone said they paid a pallet shipping price? I also went to their wholesale dept. and couldn’t figure out how to order from there. (just saw descriptions) What am I doing wrong?
Forgot to add, I live in KS.
Do you think that the folks are mredepot are taking H5n1 as seriously as we are? I just have this picture in my mind of all of them sitting around after hours chatting about us. “Can you believe it? These wackos have spent $50,000 on this stuff? hahahah” “I know, I talked to this one guy from Iowa (insert your state here) and he has run up the credit card buying this stuff!”
Wow. I have got to get off this computer. Starting to go a little nuts this AM.
That’s actually a pretty good question, about them sitting around laughing at us. For that reason alone, I am very careful who I talk to about BF and my stockpile. Especially amongst the companies and sales associates that I do a lot of business with.
But my guess, and it is only a guess, is that MREdepot.com takes the H5N1 as serious as we do. I mean look at what they sell on their site - emegency food, self defense items, emergency power, emergency everything… I though I read on one of the posts that these guys were all ex-Marines, so my gut is that they take it and any other threats to our personal safety/security pretty seriously.
Most of the places I buy from have 90% non-prep items and 10% that could also be used for preps - if they knew what I was buying it for, maybe they would laugh at me. But, I thought I’ve also read that a few members have talked with Mredepot - did anyone have a discussion with them about their thoughts on the coming pandemic that they can share? as I would be curious to see what their thoughts are on the subject - might be interesting.
Frankly, I don’t give a rat’s a** if they laugh at me, cuz they won’t be laughing in the end. But I sincerely doubt the folks at MRE Depot are laughing.
Lohrework, I am organizing a group buy for some people here in NH and have worked out discount shipping since we are shipping to one address. I specifically discussed the $10.95 shipping cited here by a poster. Steve Cyros essentially said that whoever got that shipping hit the jackpot. It was a shopping cart calculation error apparently. Your shipping sounds about right doing it via the shopping cart and using the UPS hundred weight rates. However, you could probably save some by asking Steve to quote you a freight rate using a different shipper. He has been extremely helpful to me.
All you have to do is go to the previous thread before this one & read their reply to me to see their take on this. They’re for real!
Almost everyone is the survival gear business is a prepper themselves, although they may prep for different reasons than you or I do. When I had my camping/survival equipment store, I got people prepping for a wide variety of events and scenarios (some of whom I’ve gotta tell you I thought were certifiable nuts). However, I wasn’t laughing at any of them, because a.) they were buying my products and keeping me in business, and b.) they were getting prepared, which is something I fervently believe in. Those buying my products during “normal” times meant that many fewer a-holes I would have cussing me out when TSHTF because I couldn’t provide them with everything under the sun at the precise moment they desired it. If MRE Depot is laughing, they’re only laughing all the way to the bank.
AMEN to that Kim!! I’d be willing to bet for sure that they don’t think we are crazy, but I’m not sure they are laughing as hard on the way to the bank everyday, as I bet they are working harder/longer overtime/faster trying to keep up with our business, and with the discount it has to slim their margins down considerably.
I know I’ve used it 3 times now, and still a same day ship every time, so they have to be working harder for it. But I hope they do make a profit, as I for one would like to see them around (and the discount) for quite a while!
Wonder how quickly things go nuts over there when this thing goes H2H? Bet the same day shipping goes out the door pretty fast!! I don’t plan to be one of those waiting in line for last minute preps, discount or not…
Just got my 3rd order from them today, it came faster then before. They totally rock!
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Hi All;
I think I have failed us on the honeyville group buy… I just got back home from a bus. trip, and have an e-mail from honeyville saying sorry that they can’t “accommodate” our request, but would be willing to offer us a 10% discount through the rest of the year.
I just replied that we already had a 10% discount code, but of course it is too late for them to see it today (8:45pm Pacific) - and they are probably closed Friday. Not that I am sure that it will do any good, since we basically got a no.
I am going to try and touch base with mredepot tonight to see if they have any suggestions - but I have probably let us all down on this one, I’m really sorry guys. I know a lot of us were counting on this.
Well, I guess it’s time to start over with someone else and see if I can save some face. I know we had a list already, and I have tried to reach most of them with no success so far - but I think I found that the shotgun approach of contacting them all and hoping one would respond favorably didn’t work out so well. So, I want to pick one at a time and spend all my energy/effort on them until we get a yes or a no.
Therefore, if we can just take a quick vote - with everyone giving me their top choice, I’ll tally them up and take our top three and start with the first one first thing Monday morning. And this time I’ll work my way up until I reach the CEO if I have to. I’ll call every day if that is what it takes - but I’ll try not to let us down again like I did with honeyville.
Let me know what you think!!
Fully Prepped In SoCal – at 00:06 You have done an awesome job! you haven’t let anyone down.
KimT
FPISC you did great.
Call high, stay high.
It’s a California rule in sales <exhale>
I would start calling in from the top and then have them push you down to the correct executive.
Saves a LOT of time in the end, and you are usually guaranteed followup.
I NEVER work up from the bottom.
So what were our choices of targets ? I forgot already.
I’d still like some freeze dry meats, veggies and fruits so maybe beprepared.com ??
There has to be other grain providers out there too for the bulk grains.
Thanks BG! Both for the encouragement and the excellent words of advice. Makes sense - call high, stay high!!
Freeze dried meats, veggies and fruits are still on my list as well. Beprepeared initially told me to subscribe to their e-mail list as they sometimes offer specials… I think maybe I’ll try that one over from the top and see if we can get a better response.
Anyone with other suggestions?
Thank you as well KimT - I appreciate it! I’m not giving up yet, that’s for sure!!
I just dropped another $grand at MREDepot this morning.
The savings was a couple of hundred $$$ off list, which covered shipping.
Brought it home to me again how good you did by all of us here on the wiki.
Thanks again.
I’m REAL glad to hear that BG, thanks! I guess I forgot that at least we did get ONE set up so far.
Boy did I get spoiled by how open to the idea/receptive that Mredepot was to our cause AND how quick they were to respond. We’ll give this effort some more time and effort and eventually get some more group buys set up, as I have saved a bunch of money with Mredepot too, so it was worth it!!
Thanks for reminding me!
I’ve placed probably 5 orders from MREdepot.com Fully Prepped, and you have saved me probably more than $200 total (and I’m not done, still have Christmas presents to purchase). So you have no need to apologize, in fact, I can’t can’t thank you enough!!
FPISC, You did great on the MRE Depot deal. I organized a group buy for a bunch of us here in NH and got an amazing deal on freight shipping for the group. One company I’ve had good luck ordering from (grain mills, not grains) is AAOOB Foods. You may have some luck with them getting discounts with AAOOB. The woman I get consistently great e-mail response from there is Connie Tucker. They may have more room to play with since they don’t offer the artificially low s&h.
I forget - how long is the deal up for? With our reent unexpected expenses from a leaky water pipe, I haven’t been able to order anything yet. Cheers!
Hey Girl!!! You have done a GREAT job and you’ve not let anyone down — don’t you even think that for a minute. Every dollar someone has saved has made it that much easier on their pocketbook, and meant that they have more control over what they’re doing to help save their family & friends.
There’s not enough ways to say THANKS to you for all the hard work it took to get that great discount secured for us and it that’s the ONLY company that we get a great discount from, that’s OK too. We’re very lucky to have it thanks to you.
Wonder about Mountain House foods as a resource for a discount?
Any place with dried foods, or masks, PPE suits, gloves, etc. would be great!
Good luck and thanks again!
May I ask what the ten percent code is for honeyville? I have been paying full price. I’d love a place that has grains in superpails and dried foods too. Thanks so much for all your work.
mojo,
It’s AATW.
Also, I don’t think honeyville sells grains in superpails. They sell empty superpails and grains in bags, and much of rest in #10 cans. Good prices though.
Many thanks to Fully Prepped in SoCal for putting this (time consuming) group buy together. The prices are great and the customer service at MREdepot.com (Steve C. specifically) was outstanding.
I highly recommend this merchant to anyone considering a purchase of supplies.
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Is there a link to the MRE menu? I’m pretty sure I saw a page that listed what kind of meals are in a case but I can’t find it now
Carrey in VA; There is a link to all the menus as well as their nutritional info on their wholesale site at MREwholesalers.com. Hope that helps!
LauraB; I think Fully Prepped said the code was good through 2007, so you should have plenty of time.
lasiker, can you give me a link? I’ve been all over the site and can’t manage to find it.
thanks in advance
Is this what you are looking for Carrey in VA?
I finally got notice that my battery solar charger has been shipped.
That`s me, silly goose, I didn`t change my “name”
We tried out the butter during T-Day, and it is great.
Just received 20 more cases of MRE’s and more butter, cheese and some Werling canned meats.
I have to say that MREDepot’s customer service is consistantly excellent.
Fast shipping, no problems so far with multiple orders over the last few months.
Fluwikians hit a home run with MREDepot.
Agree with Bird Guano. We received our group order yesterday, and everything went very smoothly.
FYI, you can see what the MREs include on the site, but you can’t PICK which MREs are included in each case. You take what they send.
I can tell you that in our cases, there was a great variety of entrees from beef stew, to chicken tettrazini, to chili with beans, to spaghetti with meat sauce.
I’m having my kids sample a couple tonight so they will know how to use the MREs should they have to. I’ll let you know what the yum factor is tomorrow. ;)
Nimbus — 30 November 2006, 11:49
Thank you, thats exactly what I wanted.
Wait a minute - is the discount with MRE Depot or MRE Wholesalers? Also - the discount code is fluwiki right? I hate to loose this info in all the confusion at the new site - I’m so illiterate with this new system! Thanks
LauraB The 21% discount is with www.mredepot.com. and to quote Fully Prepped In SoCal – at 19:31 way back when along time ago -“and all we have to do is enter the code “fluwikie” at check out (no quotes or caps) and the discount will be applied on our entire shopping cart”- Hope this helps and happy shopping!
The discount is applied automagically at check out.
fluwikie is the code.
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THANKS - unfortunately it will have to wait until the x-mas bills are paid off.
bump-o-rama
Is any of this information over on the new diarythingamabob ?
Don’t know….haven’t heard from FPISC in awhile, maybe she’s over there…..I’ve GOT to get an order of MRE’s sent to each of my sisters & my brother this weekend. Hope we’re still producing some good sales for MREdepot. I’ll pop over there and do a search for MREdepot & see what it turns up.
sorry that was me….forgot to change my name…..
I found the thread over there, but as I suspected, *I* was the last person to post to the thread on 11/30. No action in 7 days. I figure that’s pretty much standard for a lot of the great discussions that we have here that get moved over there to seemingly die. Makes me want to apologize to Steven at MREdepot.
Best we can do is keep bumping it up here, and keep ordering!!!
I hope you guys don’t mind but I have lurked here and never posted. I told the kiddies over at TB2K forum about MREdepot.com’s fluwikie discount for you guys and they are ordering up a storm as prepper friends with the same goal we share here. Was that OK?
Sure, many of us posted the info at different flu sites. Sorry we missed ya.I`m sure Steve doesn`t mind the business.
I doubt they would have a problem with additional orders.
However, if it does get too widespread, we run the risk of the discount being yanked because it cuts into their regular business.
I figure that’s pretty much standard for a lot of the great discussions that we have here that get moved over there to seemingly die.
Discussions are not moved over to the new site to die.
There may not be a lot of discussion “over there” about the MREDepot ordering, but there is a lot of action there from the people who live on the new site now.
Right now, a lot of discussions are centering around the CDC Community Mitigation Meetings, Mortuary and Mass Casualty Services, Care of Orphans and Social Services Needs, and a diary on Who Will Speak For The People?
Bronco Bill, yes, definitely a whole ‘nother world of topics on the new forum as compared to this one. I find most all of the topics on the new forum B-O-R-I-N-G, that’s why I prefer this one. Looking at the new forum is like watching the talking heads yell at each other on Sunday mornings. Yuk!
Well canned cheese, mre’s, butter could be made up in basket for gifts.
as could windup radios,solar lamps,radios,etc
Kim 21:31 I could not agree with you more. I go to the other side but read very few of the posts. Old Yeller lives on!!!!!
You guys! I guess I shouldn’t have worded my comment the way I did about conversations over there dying, but to some of us that’s what it seems like when you carry over a comment to the newer forum and no one replies. That’s a kind of ‘death’ of conversation to me.
There ARE a few active diaries over there & I scan them maybe once a day, so I can stay ‘in-touch’, and Kim you described it right….the topics are more ‘serious’ over there — like heavy doses of FoxNews or CNN debates. It’s easy after a few weeks of postings over there to see that you don’t have to wade through a bunch of diaries to see what’s active; you only will see major changes in a very few, the rest are in the list, but don’t ever seem to get discussed again, or haven’t yet. I had put a lot of good ones on my hotlist, but they haven’t changed much, if at all, since they opened.
Cottontop started a Lounge thread which I cheered on (and recommended) but it sort of crawled under a load of other threads never to be found again apparently —it’s hard to find unless you know it’s there and that seems to be the only ‘comic relief’ to a serious subject anyone has put there that I’ve found so far.
We have fun threads that those of us here have come to enjoy so much, interspersed among the deep-thought threads — sort of like commercials I guess…..maybe a way to describe it is that they’ve cut the commercials out on the newer forum (and I was enjoying the commercials that we have here)! You might read where someone responds to something with a funny comment, but you have to hunt for ‘em ‘cause they’re mingled throughout the serious comments on threads there, not in threads of their own and I have to assume, due to the Lounge not being active or any other threads like it being visible, that’s the way it’s preferred now.
It’s not that we’re not serious about things over here — we are, just to a different degree and at a different pace. I look at it like this: Here, it felt like as soon as you posted, you could hear a bunch of people chuckling at the same funny thing — like double posts or something, and you knew there were others that were enjoying the merriment because they’d respond to you immediately, but it seems that on the newer forum, the chuckles aren’t grouped together in their own threads (even though ironically ‘grouping together’ is one of the fine feature improvements for that site), on the newer site you might get a chuckle in one diary or another over time, but it reminds me of the old question about a tree falling in the woods - if no one is around does it make a sound?….you know the saying….well, if someone chuckles alone on the new forum and no one else notices, is it still a chuckle?? There are times when you stumble over a series of funny exchanges, but not like here & I guess it feels like all work & no play….
Can you tell it’s really hard to explain the differences, especially to those who love the newer format, what exactly we’ll be missing when this place is gone and those of us here have to move on? I imagine it’ll sort of feel like we have to behave in class or something!
Anyway, I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t trust that Old Yeller will be here much longer, at least in my terms of being here ‘indefinitely’ which I had originally perceived as months, but now I feel like it may only be weeks if that. I’ll miss it — it’s a good way to reach out and touch friends and feel like you’re really connecting, even if just on the silly, fun things that make up your day—my day doesn’t always include Indonesia or meeting concerns or body bags, but rather might include a much more limited scope like Dollar General store sales, Costo and MREdepot, and pet care, & antibiotics, and TV programs and whether I could shove another 5lb bag of rice under the bed or not, etc (I’m like the kid playing here while the adults talk there). Thank goodness there’s the food thread over there on the newer site — that’s something that’s not encumbered with too much scientific data to hold my attention!
I guess I just generally don’t have as important things to say that I want to share with others when compared to conversations about mutations & meetings, gov’t choices & directives, or orphans. It hadn’t stopped me — I still posted to the Lounge & about the Costco MRE deal. But when I go to the new forum & look at my “recent replies” it just confirms that to me since there are zero replies! :-)
Maybe I could say it’s the difference in the people who like to read the “lifestyles” section of the paper as opposed to those who like to read the “business section”. Heck enough of trying to explain the unexplainable-not complaining, just pondering the differences. Different strokes and I understand that!
IWOI,I surely agree. I usually go read all the stuff over there, but don`t feel well educated enough to comment. And,I`m a RN of 30 years.I guess some of it stems from the fact that to me it doesn`t matter if the pandemic occurs from a change on a certain gene or not. Whatever it becomes it will do it`s job.I can`t change the outcome on that end. So,I do what I can on my end.Like stock up on food, crank flashlights, and water. I try to others interested in prepping, but try as I might, I can`t get into trying to get the entire world involved.So be it. I`m glad that there are others who are part of the establishment back East. and have the ears of TPTB. I`m just and old country nurse, and glad to be one.
And we’re glad to have you HERE! :-)
You’re soooo right that there’s nothing much the majority of us can do about anything pandemic/emergency related except actively prepare for it. It’s good that others understand the technical/scientific aspects & can share that info with others who understand the ‘lingo’. Who knows — they might share with just the right person who can and will make all the difference in millions of peoples’ lives! It just won’t be me — I don’t have that kind of knowledge or understanding. All I can do is offer prayer support to those who try to help spread the technical word like on the newer forum, and that I do.
Does anyone know if the fluwikie discount at www.mredepot.com is definetely going to be good for next year? I know I saw it mentioned that they extended it beyond 12/31, but just wanted to confirm if possible so I can keep ordering weekly or if I have to get a big order in next year. Does anyone know for sure? Thanks!
Headline1215- I have sent an email to Steven Cyros from MREDEPOT to ask about the duration of the discount. I will post the information when he responds.
Thank you ChuckE - I’ll keep a lookout for their response.
Ok here is the scoop, Lots of info from Steven so I am just going to copy the entire email below. In a nut shell the discount is going to be good for a long time so just keep ordering the way you have been. New stuff is on the way and he gives information about their holiday hours. I am going to also post this on the new forum as well.----- email follows----- Hi Chuck; Thanks for touching base with me on this, and sorry for any confusion!! We have definitely extended the 21% discount to all Fluwiki members, family,associates and friends for all of 2007. It will most likely be a permanent program, since the response has been so positive to date, but for legal reasons we are saying at a minimum it will be in place through 12/31/07. So definitely please let folks know that there is no need to worry - we see dozens of small orders every week from a number of folks, and they don’t need to change their prepping habits for the foreseeable future as the discount will absolutely not end this year. Please also let folks know that even though we haven’t heard from your representative in a little while, we continue to work on her list of new products to add, and we have a number of items slated to come in just after the first of the year like the new 15 gallon, 30 gallon and 55 gallon water drums we added last week. Some of the items we are expecting are additional canned meat products, freeze dried fruits and vegetables, canned bacon, bulk whole grains, oats, rice and beans, water filters and canned heirloom planting seeds for long term storage to name a few.
If you know of anyone that has any suggestions for products that we may not have thought of or may have overlooked, please don’t hesitate to suggest them to us, as we are happy to use our purchasing power to see if we can source them for a better price to the members than they may be able to find elsewhere.
I’m real glad you touched base with me on this Chuck, as I was not aware there was any concern on the timeframe for our promotion - hopefully this will put everyone’s mind at ease! Thanks again to you and to the entire membership for the continued support - we are grateful for this relationship and for the business!! And we will continue to do our best to meet our goal of same day/next day shipping in return as promised.
We’d like to wish you and yours a very Happy Holidays, as well as to all of your membership, and we sincerely hope everyone has a safe, healthy and happy New Year!
Warmest Regards,
-Steven
Steven Cyros Vice President, Sales www.MREdepot.com
PS. You may want to let folks know that we will be closed this Friday, 12/22 through Tuesday 12/26 so our employees can spend time with their families over Christmas. Normal hours will resume on Wednesday 12/27. With the exception of New Years Day on 1/1/07, we will continue our policy of same day/next day shipping for the foreseeable future.
Many thanks ChuckE - I thought that was the case, but didn’t want to take a chance, as it could have cost me alot if I missed the boat. You have to love those guys -what a cool company. Wish I found them a year ago. If you talk to them again, tell them I would love to see individual mre items in addition to the meals. Things like just the entrees, just the desserts, the heaters or the snack items. That would be awesome! Thnx!!
Thanks for checking with them! Isn’t Steven the greatest!!
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This is the first I have explored this thread. How do you go about getting the group discount?
In the check out section, there is a promotion code. Enter flu wikie for the 21 percent discount.
Should we put a space between flu and wikie like the above post or just fluwikie? And no capital ‘F’? Thanks
just fluwikie
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Thanks Chesapeake.
you are welcome Thordawggy
Thanks!
I canned some clarified butter and through the process am confident it is safe but it was a arduous process - I think I’ll buy the rest I would like to store.
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