Episode 376: Fueling the Outdoors with Range Meal Bars Founder and Owner, Zach Hein
Fieldcraft Survival
FieldCraft Survival
4.9 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Founder and Owner of Range Meal Bars, Zach Hein, joins Fieldcraft Survival's Kevin Estela in this week's podcast. Hein started Range Meal Bars when he wanted to create a calorie dense food for backpacking and outdoor pursuits. Estela has used these bars as emergency food rations in various conditions and swears by them. The two discuss the process of building a business from a small cottage industry to a nation-wide business. Hein explains how to add calories to your backcountry meals, his background hiking and trekking, and the what is to come with his business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Kevin Estello with FeelCraftsRevival, I'm going to be the host of this podcast, |
| 0:18.9 | and it's probably a good podcast out on my host, because I probably eat more of these |
| 0:22.8 | than anyone at the company. You know, I'm a big foodie, and I really, really enjoy eating, |
| 0:31.4 | I enjoy cooking, I enjoy sharing food with people around the fire. I mean, like, I love food, |
| 0:38.0 | right? You know, they always say like, you can either live to eat or eat to live while I |
| 0:42.4 | definitely live to eat. And a while back, I was doing a little research. This is after the |
| 0:47.8 | other Asian that works for the company, or I should say the other half Asian, the less |
| 0:51.6 | attractive one. Mike Glover was like, yeah, you're going to go on the desert, you're going to do |
| 0:55.4 | this and this. And then I got out and he goes, yeah, you're going to spend some time in the mountains, |
| 0:58.6 | you got to do 72 hours of Ricky, one ziplock bag, whatever else. Well, I need to find the ultimate |
| 1:04.9 | high energy food that could support, you know, two people in the woods fit inside of ziplock bag. |
| 1:11.0 | So I'm going online, I'm like, fattiest foods, most colorically dense, that this and that. And I |
| 1:16.9 | stumble upon range meal bars. And I'm reading this. And I saw the number and I thought it was a |
| 1:21.6 | typo. Like I thought my eyes are playing tricks on me. When I saw the the number seven zero zero, |
| 1:27.0 | I thought it was a hundred. I'm like, no way. It's a 700 calories. But sure enough, it's 700 calories. |
| 1:32.4 | So I reached out to range and I was like, yeah, you know, I bought a couple of your things. Next |
| 1:36.0 | you know, you know, I'm using them on the challenge. And then later on, I'm traveling with them. |
| 1:41.3 | And I'm bringing them up to Alaska. And like, I really became a fan of these bars. So I want to |
| 1:45.8 | talk to the owner during this podcast is even a Zach kind. And just explain why it's so important to |
| 1:53.3 | find this, you know, high calorie food, why it's so important to to pick your food when you go |
| 1:58.1 | backpacking or trekking in the great outdoors. Like, you know, why is that decision process so |
| 2:04.0 | important? And then just kind of get into like a little bit of his background and a little bit of, |
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