I always said store what you eat and eat what you store. Buy a couple cases of canned or dry foods you eat, when you are done with one buy another. Buying a ton of wheat or a years supply of MREs is not a great idea unless you really like wheat and MREs.
Exactly true. A true apocalyptic event would consume the world, but only for 6-9 months, then folks would adapt regardless of outcome. Gotta have food and water.
Takes practice and writing off a few bucks to get that figured out. We have figured it out. We won't starve, but dinners will get boring.
I remember survival food for the fallout shelters. It was carefully packed away in these big square tin cans. Dad bought the stuff back in the late 50s and early 60s. Almost all of it went to waste.
Things have improved and we got a little smarter but similar problems persist. Packaging, especially self-packaging even with good equipment, is iffy.
I know people with thousands of pounds of various grains stored away. They can’t begin to eat the stock at a pace necessary for rotation.