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What is the long term food storage reality? It seems there are two approaches:
1. Off the shelf cans & items you can yourself
2. Buying MREs and foods from the long shelf life food providers
with #1 you need to practice First In, First out, but aren't you then always eating potentially poor quality food?
Or is the secret just to realize that you can only have stores 2 years deep. If you have not become self sufficient 2 years after SHTF, you are not going to make it.
With #2, what is the thinking? Enough for 2,5 10 years? Or is it a 1-2 years supply that you can buy, store and forget?
It seems #2 can be quite expensive...but I would be willing. With this approach you must trust the supplier. Otherwise you may find you have a store of garbage when the time came: For example: WISE FOODS KNOWLEDGE REPORT
Sine we don't have crystal balls and don't know when SHTF is coming, the plan would need to replace the store with fresh at some point. Perhaps a FIFO here too, but do you really want to eat this stuff as you would #1
Just trying to flush out the master plan and determine what the best approach or hybrid approach might be.
Interested in your master food storage plans
1. Off the shelf cans & items you can yourself
2. Buying MREs and foods from the long shelf life food providers
with #1 you need to practice First In, First out, but aren't you then always eating potentially poor quality food?
Or is the secret just to realize that you can only have stores 2 years deep. If you have not become self sufficient 2 years after SHTF, you are not going to make it.
With #2, what is the thinking? Enough for 2,5 10 years? Or is it a 1-2 years supply that you can buy, store and forget?
It seems #2 can be quite expensive...but I would be willing. With this approach you must trust the supplier. Otherwise you may find you have a store of garbage when the time came: For example: WISE FOODS KNOWLEDGE REPORT
Sine we don't have crystal balls and don't know when SHTF is coming, the plan would need to replace the store with fresh at some point. Perhaps a FIFO here too, but do you really want to eat this stuff as you would #1
Just trying to flush out the master plan and determine what the best approach or hybrid approach might be.
Interested in your master food storage plans