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The following entry was submitted by Dianne of the non-profit Soldiers' Angels organization:
Have you ever eaten an MRE? For those of you who don't know what that is, MRE stands for "Meal: Ready-To-Eat" and they make up the primary diet of many soldiers currently serving our country in the war against terrorism. These vacuum-packed, chock-full-o'-preservatives type of instant meals are high in calories... but rather low in taste quality. I'd heard through many correspondences with these military heroes via my work with Soldiers'Angels just how difficult these meals can be to choke down day afterday, but assumed that a bit of exaggeration was to blame for theMRE's reputation... until one day a soldier actually gave me a couple of these meals to taste for myself. Not to say that the military doesn't feed our guys & gals in uniform substantially... but I have to say, the taste-factor (or lack thereof) was no exaggeration. lol
Thus, I soon began a quest for condiment packets to help my soldiers break up the monotony of their daily rations. I began by raiding the bins of fast food restaurants that I regularly patronize, but they offered little more than your basic ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. Then in searching the internet for more of a variety, my quest led me to Minimus.biz where I struck gold! I found various types of condiments there that I never even knew existed in packet form! While it might sound strange, the 1st soldier I sent a cornucopia of condiments to, wrote back in response to receiving his package by telling me it was the best care package he'd ever gotten! He said he'd never been so happy to see little foil packets of barbeque sauce, chopped onions, and apple jelly in his life! lol
Of course, the more I viewed the Minimus.biz website, the more types of items I saw that were PERFECT for sending to soldiers...everything from hygiene items to snacks... all in a convenient size to fit in their backpacks. And the free shipping incentive for purchases over $20 was just the icing on the cake, since as a regular shipper of goods to troops overseas, I know the expense of just the postage alone!
So from this first humble experience with the condiment packets has grown the foundation of formidable and inspiring working relationship between Minimus and The Soldiers' Angels Foundation in supplying our military with some comforts of home. My first order led me to inquire about a discount for our organization (which was granted)...then to a means of combining Minimus' wide variety of products into kits that would become their very own line of pre-made care packages... and has now resulted in a regular flow of product and merchandise fulfillment between the two entities on a daily basis.
I think somehow fate just led me to type in the words "travel sized"into that search engine a few months ago. :-)
Dianne,
Soldiers' Angels
Categories: Food, Culture, Military, Iraq
Have you ever eaten an MRE? For those of you who don't know what that is, MRE stands for "Meal: Ready-To-Eat" and they make up the primary diet of many soldiers currently serving our country in the war against terrorism. These vacuum-packed, chock-full-o'-preservatives type of instant meals are high in calories... but rather low in taste quality. I'd heard through many correspondences with these military heroes via my work with Soldiers'Angels just how difficult these meals can be to choke down day afterday, but assumed that a bit of exaggeration was to blame for theMRE's reputation... until one day a soldier actually gave me a couple of these meals to taste for myself. Not to say that the military doesn't feed our guys & gals in uniform substantially... but I have to say, the taste-factor (or lack thereof) was no exaggeration. lol
Thus, I soon began a quest for condiment packets to help my soldiers break up the monotony of their daily rations. I began by raiding the bins of fast food restaurants that I regularly patronize, but they offered little more than your basic ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. Then in searching the internet for more of a variety, my quest led me to Minimus.biz where I struck gold! I found various types of condiments there that I never even knew existed in packet form! While it might sound strange, the 1st soldier I sent a cornucopia of condiments to, wrote back in response to receiving his package by telling me it was the best care package he'd ever gotten! He said he'd never been so happy to see little foil packets of barbeque sauce, chopped onions, and apple jelly in his life! lol
Of course, the more I viewed the Minimus.biz website, the more types of items I saw that were PERFECT for sending to soldiers...everything from hygiene items to snacks... all in a convenient size to fit in their backpacks. And the free shipping incentive for purchases over $20 was just the icing on the cake, since as a regular shipper of goods to troops overseas, I know the expense of just the postage alone!
So from this first humble experience with the condiment packets has grown the foundation of formidable and inspiring working relationship between Minimus and The Soldiers' Angels Foundation in supplying our military with some comforts of home. My first order led me to inquire about a discount for our organization (which was granted)...then to a means of combining Minimus' wide variety of products into kits that would become their very own line of pre-made care packages... and has now resulted in a regular flow of product and merchandise fulfillment between the two entities on a daily basis.
I think somehow fate just led me to type in the words "travel sized"into that search engine a few months ago. :-)
Dianne,
Soldiers' Angels
Categories: Food, Culture, Military, Iraq
posted by Paul Shrater at 11:40 AM
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