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IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PREPPER and PEOPLE WHO STOCKPILE COMMERCIAL FOODS FROM COMPANIES

 
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Sorry, OP. tl;dr thread

BUT...

"Upon opening the bag the contents were a bit discolored. Well maybe that's part of the natural aging process and they're still actually edible, so I go to prepare them. Potato soup is gross. Cheesy broccoli and rice, gross. Granola, rancid. Cheesy potato soup was tolerable. Creamy chicken and rice, let's not go there. Tasted like ass."


Of course those are the first things to go bad. Every real prepper would know this. It's a mixed up mess going in to be sealed, with dairy to boot.

That's why most long-term preps are raw ingredients, dehydrated, de-oxygenated, and you'll have grinders for when they're opened. And a shared cow or goat if possible, and it will be possible, or life won't be worth living anyway, IMHO.
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Benjamin Franklin, at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia - I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and the impenetration. That menace, gentlemen, is the .ws. In whatever country ,ws have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone: depreciated its commerical integrity: have segretaged themselves and have not been assimilated: have built up a state within a state: and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

For over 17 hundred years. the ,ws have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But, gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only amongst themselves. They must subsist on the other people not of their race. If you do not exclude them from these United States in the Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land, and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives, our bustance, and jeopardized our liberty.

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them subsuance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude the .ws for all time, your children will curse you in your graves."
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The best investment you could probably make as a dedicated prepper would be a vacuum chamber sealer. Basically a small version of the huge industrial machines they use in food manufacturing. Not only does dry goods, but meat for the freezer.

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Expensive, but worth it.
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Beans and rice never go bad. Orchards never go bad. Fish ponds never go bad. Wild game never goes bad. Perennial beds never go bad. Canned meat lasts for decades. Seeds last for decades if stored properly. Do it right.
 Quoting: Icey


Try to cook and eat old beans. They will not get soft even after soaking and cooking for days.
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Learn how to cook.
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We have had this fight before over old beans LOL. OK you find some ten year old beans and come back and tell us how it is done. I know some tricks, but most people will not be able to eat them.
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Cover them with cold water, put in fridge overnight.

Next day drain and rinse them, add back some fresh water then cook on low heat (bring to boil, cover and keep at low boil) for about 8 hours.

Properly seasoned they will be tasty and good for you.
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I'm going to dip out of here for a while and take care of things. I hope this thread continues to run as I would like to see more feedback from the commercially prepared storable foods that have been purchased by people.

I understand all of you enjoy the subject of prepping as I see many threads on GLP on any given day, but please keep in mind that the main focus of this thread is for feedback from people who have purchased commercial foods from the large vendors that we are most familiar with. These are the ones I'm most interested in learning about their experiences.

I'll be back later on. Thank you all
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MREs are the way to go. Sure they cost more but worth it. Try some of the food right away so it can be replaced if need be. Rotate stock no matter what food you have stored for SHTF.
 Quoting: EnD BLM & AntifA


You can pick them up locally for $30 a case sometimes if the timing and offer is right.
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That would be a great price. When some of mine get older I take them to work for lunch.
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looking for more feedback
 Quoting: MeowMix


Thank you for motivating me to do this!

I have a 3 month supply that was delivered to us in August of 2012. Just now, I cut the bands off the totes and looked inside...

I have pulled out 5 items at random to trial:

Vegetable Beef Stew
Chicken Veggie Alfredo Pasta
Corn Chowder
Chili & Cornmeal Dumplings
Cheesy Chicken Rice Casserole

The contents in each package is hard and crunchy. I cannot smell anything from any of them. Shaking them, they sound loose and in pieces - not like a solid brick.
Keep in mind, these have literally sat in the basement...in the dark and untouched by humans since they were delivered 8 years ago.

They have expiration dates of June 2027

It will take a few days, but I am going to try these and report back. I am a bit worried now.

This is a 3 month supply for 4 people from eFoods Direct. Do not recall what was paid for it.

Thank you again for this motivation. I will report back.
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How long does uncooked pasta last?

Would think a few years at least.
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From my experience you leave it in the cardboard packaging, it's really good for only about a year before the bug eggs hatch. Even though it generally has a 2 year from manufacture "best by" date. I just put the boxes I don't plan on using right away in a 5 cent generic Walmart gallon sized ziplock bag to keep oxygen from circulating to a minimum.

I haven't had any experience with long term normal pasta storage beyond that, though. I have eaten 5 year old Mountain House freeze-dried lasagna and it was fine.
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My landlord isn't a prepper, she's about as far from one as you get, just impulsively buys stuff.

She had a plastic storage bin filled with boxes of pasta. I opened it and all of the boxes were eaten thru with grain weevils. Flour dust everywhere. Had to throw it all out.

I tell people, "might be a good idea to buy some extra canned items for the winter" and they look at me blankly, "why, wut's gunna happen?"
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How long does uncooked pasta last?

Would think a few years at least.
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From my experience you leave it in the cardboard packaging, it's really good for only about a year before the bug eggs hatch. Even though it generally has a 2 year from manufacture "best by" date. I just put the boxes I don't plan on using right away in a 5 cent generic Walmart gallon sized ziplock bag to keep oxygen from circulating to a minimum.

I haven't had any experience with long term normal pasta storage beyond that, though. I have eaten 5 year old Mountain House freeze-dried lasagna and it was fine.
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The bug eggs mostly hatch at night, mostly....lick
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MREs are the way to go. Sure they cost more but worth it. Try some of the food right away so it can be replaced if need be. Rotate stock no matter what food you have stored for SHTF.
 Quoting: EnD BLM & AntifA


You can pick them up locally for $30 a case sometimes if the timing and offer is right.
 Quoting: not-a-canadian


That would be a great price. When some of mine get older I take them to work for lunch.
 Quoting: EnD BLM & AntifA


Check Facebook Marketplace if you have access to it. Lots of good deals on MRE's.
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How long does uncooked pasta last?

Would think a few years at least.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77645332


From my experience you leave it in the cardboard packaging, it's really good for only about a year before the bug eggs hatch. Even though it generally has a 2 year from manufacture "best by" date. I just put the boxes I don't plan on using right away in a 5 cent generic Walmart gallon sized ziplock bag to keep oxygen from circulating to a minimum.

I haven't had any experience with long term normal pasta storage beyond that, though. I have eaten 5 year old Mountain House freeze-dried lasagna and it was fine.
 Quoting: not-a-canadian


My landlord isn't a prepper, she's about as far from one as you get, just impulsively buys stuff.

She had a plastic storage bin filled with boxes of pasta. I opened it and all of the boxes were eaten thru with grain weevils. Flour dust everywhere. Had to throw it all out.

I tell people, "might be a good idea to buy some extra canned items for the winter" and they look at me blankly, "why, wut's gunna happen?"
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77333689



My neighbor reacted the same exact way. Tough to explain things to someone who doesn't have a clue.

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A jar of fresh made ghee (butter oil) where the jar was sterile and sealed properly will last for a hundred years.

Basmati Rice, stored properly, will last indefinitely. It is the king of rice, cooks in 12 minutes, easily digested and tastes like popcorn.

Dried Beans (lentils and mung beans fast cooking and most digestible) stored properly, will last decades. High protein and easy to digest.

Wheat berries store for 10-20 years. Just need a grinding mill to make flour as you go.

Canned vegetables are good for 5 years. I have carrots, green beans, spinach, corn, tomatoe, potatoes, etc.

Properly freeze dried vegetables likewise but you might need to do it yourself to do it right.

Salt, Pepper, cinnamon, ginger, and freshly ground spices like those in mixed curry, properly sealed in small serving containers, will last a decade. The spices in curry are anti-inflammatory, increase digestion, anti-parasitic, anti-oxidant, and are tasty.

So quite simply you have FRESH MADE rice and beans with vegetables in a butter/curry sauce and flat-bread at the ready for super cheap, without relying on the dubious "ready made" freeze dried techniques that promise 20 year shelf life that winds up being more like 3 or 4 MAX.
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and you can easily sprout the beans (particularly mung)
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Not being the least bit religious, but I was wondering the other day how they stored grains in the BC era. I was thinking about the old story where Joseph had a dream about a famine and they stored grains for 7 years in preparation of the famine and saved the people. What all did they store, how did they store it and how much did they store to save so many people?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67789290


Ron Wyatt discovered the vaults in Egypt where the grain was stored I believe? Basically holes in the ground with some vent shafts.
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With all due respect, some of you folks are excellent at doing your own thing. I can appreciate that. But this is not a thread about how to do things. That is not what this thread is about. Please do not derail it and go off topic.

Right now this subject is very important to me. I spent a lot of time counseling people on dehydrated foods, and assuring them that they were getting a quality product. When I check out my own stash I see that I have less than quality foods in my own stash so what does that mean for all of the customers that I have sold food to over the years and that is continually being sold now? What's going to happen to the family out in Utah or Alabama, or Virginia or Louisianan who spent literally thousands on their food supply when they go to open their foods – and see that half of it is crap?



I am looking for feedback on customers who have bought COMMERCIAL FOODS. I'm talking about the big companies where they dehydrate and package the foods. You all know what I'm talking about. The foods that were promoted by the big companies that advertised on Glenn Beck, and 1 million other places. I'm talking about THOSE companies and the quality of the foods now. I want to know how many people ended up with crap food after they were promised it would last.
 Quoting: MeowMix


I have Mountain House & Emergency Essential freeze dried cans stored in my basement since 2009/2010. My basement stays about 60 degrees year around and I always have dehumidifier going in the summer so it's never overly humid. I purchased these hoping they would last 10-15 years although some ppl say they can last up to 25 years. I have yet to open a can up..perhaps I will this weekend and report back.
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one more thing, I had several fruit and vegetable packages that are freeze-dried. Inedible. Just plain Inedible. I think I would have eaten the packaging in an emergency before I would have eaten the actual foods inside them.
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The most recent episode of Hoaders had a guy that was holding on to 42 year old Mountain House preps. He was finally persuaded it was bad and he got rid of it.

If yours went bad in way less time, can you imagine what his looked like?

ewww...
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I saw that episode. Was hoping that they would crack open a can and see what it looked like.
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A jar of fresh made ghee (butter oil) where the jar was sterile and sealed properly will last for a hundred years.

Basmati Rice, stored properly, will last indefinitely. It is the king of rice, cooks in 12 minutes, easily digested and tastes like popcorn.

Dried Beans (lentils and mung beans fast cooking and most digestible) stored properly, will last decades. High protein and easy to digest.

Wheat berries store for 10-20 years. Just need a grinding mill to make flour as you go.

Canned vegetables are good for 5 years. I have carrots, green beans, spinach, corn, tomatoe, potatoes, etc.

Properly freeze dried vegetables likewise but you might need to do it yourself to do it right.

Salt, Pepper, cinnamon, ginger, and freshly ground spices like those in mixed curry, properly sealed in small serving containers, will last a decade. The spices in curry are anti-inflammatory, increase digestion, anti-parasitic, anti-oxidant, and are tasty.

So quite simply you have FRESH MADE rice and beans with vegetables in a butter/curry sauce and flat-bread at the ready for super cheap, without relying on the dubious "ready made" freeze dried techniques that promise 20 year shelf life that winds up being more like 3 or 4 MAX.
 Quoting: the decider




Plus, Mung Beans and Lentils can be sprouted and you'll have fresh edible sprouts within 3 or 4 days. One Tablespoon of Mung Beans sprouts 2 CUPS!!!
 Quoting: Eggcellently Deplorable


True. Furthermore, mung beans grow easily in poor soil. I have done so personally. Easy to grow and harvest.

Additionally, ghee (butter oil) is medicinal. It increases the power of digestion. That compared with its storage life makes it incomparable. Not to mention the taste.
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Not being the least bit religious, but I was wondering the other day how they stored grains in the BC era. I was thinking about the old story where Joseph had a dream about a famine and they stored grains for 7 years in preparation of the famine and saved the people. What all did they store, how did they store it and how much did they store to save so many people?
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Ron Wyatt discovered the vaults in Egypt where the grain was stored I believe? Basically holes in the ground with some vent shafts.
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And they worshiped cats because they kept the granaries rodent-free.
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Im not a prepper cause I dont have the income but as I understand its best to buy what youd use in the first place, and simply rotate supplies

Plain rice and dried beans as well is a good choice. You cant go wrong with that
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You honestly believe that?

Try eating once a meal consisting of rice and beans. I assume you also have the proper spices, salt and so on.

From what you are saying, I suppose you will like it.

Now eat this for 3 consecutive days. Maybe you will protest a little bit the third day?

Now eat nothing but this for one whole month - just one month. Maybe your spices have run out, maybe you don't even have salt anymore? Just try imagining how you will feel....
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They have found stored food and seeds that are still viable a thousand years later.
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Yeah.

IN THE F'N DESERT, MORAN@!
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We've also purchased from

My Patriot Supply
Emergency Essentials.
Food4Patriots
Auguson Farms

and had to throw a lot of stored food away over the years especially in Hawaii with warm humid air. Opening up the granola was disgusting. We also store underground storage area where the temp is between 40-50 year round and that works well. Keep it cool/cold. However.. I really don't like eating any long-term pepper food. So we're doing a lot of indoor container gardening for produce (kale, spinach, Swiss chard, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, bell peppers, herbs, potatoes in potatoes sacks, etc)..

Basics: pasta (pasta sauce); rice; oatmeal; nuts; dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, etc.), jello, honey, coffee/tea/cocoa/crystal lite; powdered milk/butter/sour cream; peanut butter; flour; canned meat, sardinnes, tuna and other fish; beans. Can veggies and fruit. Oils (grape seed, olive, crisco, coconut).

We use the fresh produce in soups and make dumplings to go one top.

I've tried a lot of the different freeze dried camper food and didn't think much of that either. One will definitely lose weight when they have to eat that stuff.

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I stashed for y2k and after. Emergency Essentials.

Opened up 20 year old freeze dried peaches. Tasted like fresh off the tree.

Shredded mozzarella and cheddar from 1999- perfect, delicious.

FD chicken.....bland but fine, and I think FD chicken is always bland. 3 year old mountain house chicken salad pouches were bland.

2011 peanut butter, tried out last year. "Off." Called them and yes indeed they say up front the peanut butter is only listed for 5 years. My mistake.

Unfinished basement, NJ. Cold in winter and warm in summer.


Bottom line- I trust the EE dates.
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With all due respect, some of you folks are excellent at doing your own thing. I can appreciate that. But this is not a thread about how to do things. That is not what this thread is about. Please do not derail it and go off topic.

Right now this subject is very important to me. I spent a lot of time counseling people on dehydrated foods, and assuring them that they were getting a quality product. When I check out my own stash I see that I have less than quality foods in my own stash so what does that mean for all of the customers that I have sold food to over the years and that is continually being sold now? What's going to happen to the family out in Utah or Alabama, or Virginia or Louisianan who spent literally thousands on their food supply when they go to open their foods – and see that half of it is crap?



I am looking for feedback on customers who have bought COMMERCIAL FOODS. I'm talking about the big companies where they dehydrate and package the foods. You all know what I'm talking about. The foods that were promoted by the big companies that advertised on Glenn Beck, and 1 million other places. I'm talking about THOSE companies and the quality of the foods now. I want to know how many people ended up with crap food after they were promised it would last.
 Quoting: MeowMix


I have Mountain House & Emergency Essential freeze dried cans stored in my basement since 2009/2010. My basement stays about 60 degrees year around and I always have dehumidifier going in the summer so it's never overly humid. I purchased these hoping they would last 10-15 years although some ppl say they can last up to 25 years. I have yet to open a can up..perhaps I will this weekend and report back.
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See my post above and don't waste them. 2009/10 is fine until 2040 at least.
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You can get food in metal non-re-useable containers, but you have to have a special tool to open them.

The food inside is passable and it usually lasts until you open it.

Most grocery stores have this.
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You can get food in metal non-re-useable containers, but you have to have a special tool to open them.

The food inside is passable and it usually lasts until you open it.

Most grocery stores have this.
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You can live like a king for years on corned beef hash & canned ravioli. Both will last at least 10 years.

Aldi's canned beef ravioli/pasta is 65 cents a can, tastes better than Chef Boyardee.

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I read this at work and couldn't respond till after I got home. I bought food from Emergency Essentials, Mountain House and Auguson Foods. I live in FL and sometimes it can get a bit warmer than other places, but I live in an Air Conditioned building, so it was stored properly once I got it home. At any rate, I decided to try out some of these foods when I saw that the Emergency Essentials Brownie mix can was BULGING. TO me, that means Botulism or worse.

The Brownie mix was bad. STUNK. Didn't try it for fear of botulism. I decided to try some other foods, half of them I threw out. Like you, I discovered they were bad and these were only like 3 or 4 years since I bought them.

There's no way these foods are good for 30 years. Anything with milk powder in it seems to be instantly bad in my food storage. So I did as you did and cleaned out what was bad and I will be storing only foods that don't go bad as easily. BASIC foods. I might not have as much variety, but variety doesn't matter if you have to throw it out.

I contacted the companies, and they could have cared less. They sure didn't act that way when I made the sale! And for the person who said Mountain House doesn't go bad, it did at my house, just sayin'. I LOVE their Chili Mac...but it had gone bad and completely smelled bad. Very disappointed, but I'd rather store wheat and grind it and have something viable than open up a can of bad food. I'm restocking with basics only.

I wasted so much money on that food...such a shame.
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I read this at work and couldn't respond till after I got home. I bought food from Emergency Essentials, Mountain House and Auguson Foods. I live in FL and sometimes it can get a bit warmer than other places, but I live in an Air Conditioned building, so it was stored properly once I got it home. At any rate, I decided to try out some of these foods when I saw that the Emergency Essentials Brownie mix can was BULGING. TO me, that means Botulism or worse.

The Brownie mix was bad. STUNK. Didn't try it for fear of botulism. I decided to try some other foods, half of them I threw out. Like you, I discovered they were bad and these were only like 3 or 4 years since I bought them.

There's no way these foods are good for 30 years. Anything with milk powder in it seems to be instantly bad in my food storage. So I did as you did and cleaned out what was bad and I will be storing only foods that don't go bad as easily. BASIC foods. I might not have as much variety, but variety doesn't matter if you have to throw it out.

I contacted the companies, and they could have cared less. They sure didn't act that way when I made the sale! And for the person who said Mountain House doesn't go bad, it did at my house, just sayin'. I LOVE their Chili Mac...but it had gone bad and completely smelled bad. Very disappointed, but I'd rather store wheat and grind it and have something viable than open up a can of bad food. I'm restocking with basics only.

I wasted so much money on that food...such a shame.
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Oh maaaaan, this here is what I'm talking about. I am so sorry this happened to you.
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Re: IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PREPPER and PEOPLE WHO STOCKPILE COMMERCIAL FOODS FROM COMPANIES
I read this at work and couldn't respond till after I got home. I bought food from Emergency Essentials, Mountain House and Auguson Foods. I live in FL and sometimes it can get a bit warmer than other places, but I live in an Air Conditioned building, so it was stored properly once I got it home. At any rate, I decided to try out some of these foods when I saw that the Emergency Essentials Brownie mix can was BULGING. TO me, that means Botulism or worse.

The Brownie mix was bad. STUNK. Didn't try it for fear of botulism. I decided to try some other foods, half of them I threw out. Like you, I discovered they were bad and these were only like 3 or 4 years since I bought them.

There's no way these foods are good for 30 years. Anything with milk powder in it seems to be instantly bad in my food storage. So I did as you did and cleaned out what was bad and I will be storing only foods that don't go bad as easily. BASIC foods. I might not have as much variety, but variety doesn't matter if you have to throw it out.

I contacted the companies, and they could have cared less. They sure didn't act that way when I made the sale! And for the person who said Mountain House doesn't go bad, it did at my house, just sayin'. I LOVE their Chili Mac...but it had gone bad and completely smelled bad. Very disappointed, but I'd rather store wheat and grind it and have something viable than open up a can of bad food. I'm restocking with basics only.

I wasted so much money on that food...such a shame.
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What was the average temperate of your house down in Florida since you've been storing the food? I know you said you use AC but some ppl keep their AC at 78.
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Any way you look at it stockpiling those types of dehydrated / MRE foods is super expensive and inefficient.

Stock up. Wait. Throw away. Repeat. It is an awful emergency strategy.

You are just better off to stockpile regular keepable groceries, your own canned/preserved stuff, etc. and rotate them out of your day to day food supply.

You can easily go 2 years that way with almost no effort and at 20% of the cost.

If you are in a situation where you have to stockpile more than 2 years of food, food will ironically be the least of your worries.
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Any way you look at it stockpiling those types of dehydrated / MRE foods is super expensive and inefficient.

Stock up. Wait. Throw away. Repeat. It is an awful emergency strategy.

You are just better off to stockpile regular keepable groceries, your own canned/preserved stuff, etc. and rotate them out of your day to day food supply.

You can easily go 2 years that way with almost no effort and at 20% of the cost.

If you are in a situation where you have to stockpile more than 2 years of food, food will ironically be the least of your worries.
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This advice is true





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