I can basically live off of homebrewed liquor and frozen pizza for months (only actual life skill college taught me) but if the crap hits the fan, It'd be better to have some better sustenance. I always have at least a 7day emergency supply on the ready, but I'd want to hear from you guys which one would be better if stuff goes real for a couple months. Also, do those solar water boilers work ? I'm thinking of getting one.
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I like to have a mixture. We do have a large family so can deal in 50 pounds bags of oatmeal and #10 cans of spinach...
(1) Foods we eat often: rotate stock.
(2) Foods that can be eaten in an emergency stress situation, don't require cooking or thinking to pull together: MRE's, backpacking foods. We use them camping and hiking so the stock is rotated.
(3)Long Term Dehydrated that are easy to make meals with. These have 20+ years storage life so I can set them aside and forget about them.
(4) Large supply of basics: wheat berries, oat groats, rice, cakes of yeast, etc. Takes more work to make meals but if the world changes (massive inflation, war, natural disaster that takes out infrastructure, etc) we'll need those stores.
(5) Comfort foods. Even bad for you things like candy, things to lighten the mood. Especially needed if you have kids, but aren't we all kids at heart?