Buying in Bulk - Pallet prices of Civilian MRE's

[610Alpha]

Hey Everyone,

I was curious as to what a pallet of MRE's cost so I sent an email off to APack and they sent me their bulk prices bythe pallet, 1/2 truckload, and full truckload. Here they are:

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1-47 Cases $69.95/case

Pricing for 1 Pallet $2,592
$54/case
48 cases per pallet
48-1199 Cases

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[Lowdown3]

"Apack?" Never heard of them. Where are they located?

Typically FULL MEAL MRE's are about the worst value in MRE's IMO.

[Lowdown3]

"Apack?" Never heard of them. Where are they located?

Typically FULL MEAL MRE's are about the worst value in MRE's IMO.

[610Alpha]

Ameriqual Group, LLC
18200 Hwy 41 North
Evansville, IN 47725
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[Lowdown3]

They will store a long time. My point was from an economical standpoint, it's better to buy cases of just the meat entrees, just the fruit entrees than paying for the packaging.

[Klayton]

Ameriqual is one of the MRE distributors (as they make a few components but mostly put all the components into the meal bag), there is one other one also; So-Pack-Co if I remember right. Not sure if they are still in business. As it has been a looooooong time since I ate an MRE.

Other things to check on: Humanitarian Rations produced by the same companies but it adds more variables to your meal choices. You can only fight for M&Ms or the charms so many times. LOL some of the humanitarian rations even have gummy bears!! Yahoo talk about boosting your kid's morale!! Humanitarian Rations come in the same MRE style bag, but they are not camouflaged, they are bright YELLOW for ease of finding in low light.

Finally, I was told (not confirmed) that you can actually buy the new platoon rations (as a civilian) Now that is if you have a survival camp, cant see a family of 4 trying to scarf down 30ppl worth of scrambled eggs in one sitting. Anybody know about the platoon rations? I have only seen them personally two times.

[610Alpha]

Group rations are available here: http://www.ameriqual.com/military/group_rations.php

also another provider of MRE type meals: http://www.sopakco.com/

I am going to see if I can find bulk prices on just the entrees like Lowdown3 suggested. I'll let you know what I find out.

[Klayton]

So So-Pak-Co does still produce, wasnt sure if my old brain remembered their name correctly or not, thanks.

So they are called group rations and not platoon rations (makes mental note) thanks again. This forum rocks for intel, thanks guys.

[Lowdown3]

I think you'll find what your referring to are called Tray packs. They used to be all metal and could be heated right on wood coals. I haven't bought them in years but the last time 02-03 they were pretty much all plastic containers. They are designed to feed a squad at one time.

It's a lot of food and although it's great for a group of 8-10 it's hard for a family of 3 or 4 to rotate them.

[Klayton]

NO T-Rations are only a component of the platoon rations (aka group rations).
Trying to remember here. They come in two large boxes per meal. Each meal contains a few T-rations, #10 cans, condiments, plasticware, paper cups, and an item from perishable storage (frozen).
Anybody else know more specifically what I am talking about?

[Matt In Oklahoma]

T Rats, I know exactly what you are talking about. heat the entrees up in boiling water for 30min to an hour deoending on what it is. I don't know where to get any but they rocked! The had everything in it to feed 16-20 folks with some leftovers.

[Klayton]

Matt, I found it!!

>>>Group rations, unlike individual rations, require cooks and food preparation equipment (including refrigeration when serving A-Rations). In addition, Class I personnel requirements increase with group rations. Our existing group rations include T-Rations, B-Rations and A-Rations. All of these rations were used to support our soldiers during Operation Desert Shield/Storm. <<<

>>>T-Rations consist of semi-perishable foods that include a variety of fully cooked tray pack entrees, vegetables, desserts and starches. The tray pack container serves as a packing, heating and serving container. There are 10 breakfast and 10 lunch/dinner menus. The T-Ration Module contains everything needed to support the soldier, including the single service eating ware. Milk and bread are required to make the meal nutritionally adequate. The T-Ration may be further enhanced with dry cereal, fresh fruits, salad material and some condiments. The highly acceptable lunch/dinner menus include such entrees as chicken breast with gravy, hamburgers and turkey slices with gravy. Breakfast entrees include a variety of egg omelets, ham, pork sausage links and creamed ground beef. Research continues to produce improved breakfast components for the Breakfast T-Ration menus such as sausage patty with biscuit and chipped beef. The T-Ration Module is now being unitized 18 meals per module rather than 36 meals to the module. Additionally, the modules still are unitized 12 modules to a pallet, but because the module is 18 meals versus 36 there are now only 216 meals per pallet. This initiative is expected to reduce waste, prevent repetition in menus and make handling the module easier. More than 20 million T-Ration meals were shipped to support Operation Desert Shield/Storm, which made up about 11 percent of all rations shipped to the theater. About 98,000 T-Rations were served daily, which made up approximately 7 percent of the daily rations consumed. The beauty of the T-Ration continues to be simplicity, compact packaging and the minimum requirement for personnel and equipment to prepare the ration. <<<

So that means the two platoon rations (aka group rations) I saw were the one with A-rations included (required refrigeration)... Now the question is, can civilians buy this level of rations?

[Lowdown3]

OK OK!!! BIIIIGGG heavy cardboard box with couple tray packs, #10 can or two and some paperware that rats love to eat up????

The tray packs were the only thing that survived in storage, maybe that's it. I was mentally blocking out the "platoon ration" thing LMAO

FWIW, I've rarely ever seen them wholesale but tray packs are wholesaled quite regularly.

[Klayton]

Thanks Lowdown3...
Sorry we used a slang you didn't approve of.....

[Lowdown3]

Not sure what you mean???

I remembered buying some of these years ago and that they were called Platoon rations. I had only bought a couple off of a place in Texas. Bulky, heavy to ship and as I said, very little of it survived in storage- most of it became rat fodder.