During our latest secret society meeting at our secret underground bunker, the Z-Team and I were discussing the pros/cons of MREs and other stored food supplies.
"MREs are 'specially engineered to last years, supply nutrition, and work in SHTF situations."
"Yeah, but they're damned expensive."
"So? MRE's can withstand parachute drops of 1200 feet."
"......"
My proposal is to keep a few large caches of food supplies that are simply cans and sealed dry food goods in a few (2~5) storage totes.
Simply fill the containers with canned food, such as
Spam.
Ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits, vegetables.
Protein or fruit bars.
Dry cereal or granola.
Peanut butter.
Dried fruit.
Canned juices.
Non-perishable pasteurized milk.
High energy foods.
Then use the food from one of the containers as everyday stores. When the container is empty, buy supplies and fill it back up, move it to the end, and start pulling supplies from the next container. This way you would use them gradually so they don't get old and keep an emergency supply at the same time. This would be way cheapers than MREs,
and tastier, and you would always have a fresh supply of grub in case of hurricane, power grid failure, or alien invasion.
Don't forget to include a can opener.