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mattduke Light Sweet Crude


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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| Quote: | Due to EXTREMELY high customer demand and market volatility, our order processing time for most orders is currently taking
4 - 8 business days to ship. Orders with food or food units will take slightly longer. Some food items may temporarily be backordered.
Thanks for your patience! |
http://www.nitro-pak.com/ |
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GoghGoner Heavy Crude


Joined: Apr 10, 2008 Posts: 181
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| Not good, that's where I am spending my stimulus check. |
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MattSavinar Elite


Joined: May 09, 2004 Posts: 1990
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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4-8 days isn't all that bad compared to some other outlets where it can be months. And there is no minimum order either.
Nitro-Pak Storable Foods _________________ http://www.peakoil.org |
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HEADER_RACK Heavy Crude


Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 403
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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All the survivalist are getting nervous reading the news. Making alot more orders. _________________ You want to survive? Be willing to do what the other man won't!! |
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RonMN Fission


Joined: Mar 18, 2005 Posts: 2558 Location: Minnesota
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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The last time I checked...Mountainhouse only had 4 or 6 items still in stock. The vast majority of items simply read "Out Of Stock". _________________ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes. |
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efarmer Heavy Crude


Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 408
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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Going into what you believe might be the Long Emergency with
short term, unsustainable provisions is like wearing a condom
as protection during a knife fight. You should provision like
the wagon trains did instead of pretending you are going
to be on the space shuttle for 5 years ingesting tang and
reconstituted backpack rations.
I wager my sack of beans and lentils will outrun your
freeze dried stuff. |
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GoghGoner Heavy Crude


Joined: Apr 10, 2008 Posts: 181
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Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| efarmer wrote: | | I wager my sack of beans and lentils will outrun your freeze dried stuff. |
Depends on the cooking situation. I can have a backpacker meal prepared by boiling water for 3 minutes. Do you know how difficult it will be to boil water long enough for beans? Also, since I backpack the meals serve a dual purpose of food storage and food for backpacking. |
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mattduke Light Sweet Crude


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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:25 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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Delays have increased to "10-18 days to ship."
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Due to EXTREMELY high customer demand and market volatility, our order processing time for most orders is currently taking 10-18 business days to ship. Orders with food or food units will take longer. Some food items may temporarily be backordered. Thanks for your patience! |
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wisconsin_cur Moderator


Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2449 Location: The Entropisphere
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| GoghGoner wrote: | | efarmer wrote: | | I wager my sack of beans and lentils will outrun your freeze dried stuff. |
Depends on the cooking situation. I can have a backpacker meal prepared by boiling water for 3 minutes. Do you know how difficult it will be to boil water long enough for beans? Also, since I backpack the meals serve a dual purpose of food storage and food for backpacking. |
Soak them in standing water @ room temp for a day or two. |
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efarmer Heavy Crude


Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 408
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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GoghGoner, I see the merit of dual use if you are a backpacker.
You can use a hand mill to make flour out of dried beans and
grains and then soak them and finally cook them.
I must admit I have some lemon survival ration bars
for bag out or natural emergency use. Having tried
one it wasn't bad, but one would have to have sheet
iron guts and a rubber butthole to thrive on such
concentrated fare.
Sprouts are another village technology to get some fresh
greens and vitamins from a dried and endurable stash
of seeds or grains. My personal dried food favorite is
the tabouli salad mixes with precooked wheat and the
herbs and spice packet, all you need is some hot water
and whatever you can pick that is fresh and green to
toss in. Ramen noodles are in the same league, and
with some freeze dried eggs stirred in, are survival
food on the ultra cheap.
My son is home from Iraq tour #3 and I am going to
pick his brain on MRE and Bedouin food since his last
tour was in the western desert, and his first was
going from Kuwait to take the Bagdad Airport, almost
all, on MRE's and ad hoc kickers like jerkey.
I will do this in the Preparation venue as it is getting
off topic here. |
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Pops Moderator


Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 6350 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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The invasion of the Backpackers!
Oh My Aching Bunions!
(do what ef and cur said) _________________ Make a plan and work it: |
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anagami Light Sweet Crude


Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 1636 Location: Sudavasa Abodes
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:55 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| GoghGoner wrote: | | efarmer wrote: | | I wager my sack of beans and lentils will outrun your freeze dried stuff. |
Depends on the cooking situation. I can have a backpacker meal prepared by boiling water for 3 minutes. Do you know how difficult it will be to boil water long enough for beans? Also, since I backpack the meals serve a dual purpose of food storage and food for backpacking. |
food for backpacking?
...nevermind, food for traveling "outdoors". are you of those that want to be mobile survivors with everything they need in wearable form? _________________ anagami.net |
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RedStateGreen Light Sweet Crude


Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 1003 Location: Oklahoma City, USA
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| Pops wrote: | The invasion of the Backpackers!
Oh My Aching Bunions!
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I've been a backpacker for decades. Great fun, and good exercise!  _________________ What, so I'm in no end game
Move my piece right off the board |
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Pops Moderator


Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 6350 Location: My Grandkids' Farm
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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| RedStateGreen wrote: | I've been a backpacker for decades. Great fun, and good exercise!  |
I walked lots of the Sierras back in the day - Desolation Valley, around Tuolumne Meadows, down by Sequoia Park and over at Henry Coe on the west side of the Central Valley. I have topo's from north of Tahoe to south of Yosemite and from 395 on the east to around 3k ft. on the west, all rolled up in a length of ABS pipe somewhere - it used to paper my bedroom.
Freeze dried and fancy packed stuff is great when one has lots of disposable income to indulge their hobby.
Perhaps not so good without the income and when the hobby is simply getting by. _________________ Make a plan and work it: |
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GoghGoner Heavy Crude


Joined: Apr 10, 2008 Posts: 181
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Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: Re: Nitro-Pak Food Extremely High Demand, Delays |
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How about this angle?
I was backpacking up in northern Minnesota last year and bushwhacked to a lake that never gets fished. Every other cast I caught a Northern Pike and that was the first time I have fished in a decade. I can use my expensive fancy rations to quickly get me to a place I could find isolation and fresh fish. |
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