I agree the author is bad.
But I like the idea of stocking up so I knew if I posted this someone would have tried it and would give an opinion as to it’s taste I figure while you can you might as well find out what people recommend along these lines.
You would not want to buy this particular food assortment because it has too much in the way of dehydrated and textured soy protein. Costco sells Shelf Reliance freeze dried products also and they are quite good. You can buy real freeze dried meat, vegetables, cheese and fruit that once rehydrated tastes remarkably close to fresh. I buy nothing but the freeze dried items because the dehydrated stuff simply does not taste as good. Laugh if you will but the day is coming when everyone will wish the had stored at least 6-months of food.
Stocking up takes space
Space that stays cool (root cellar cool)
SPace that is protected
Food needs to be rotated - so while the M/H is neat, the #10 cans take some thought. THe cans have a ‘shelf life’ of around 20 years, id stored properly. The packets - sold for packpacker, are good for 7 years or so.
I have recently cleaned out my doomsday bunker (OK the basement, but buncker sounds cool) and found some M/H 5 to 7 years bapst they use by date.
Tasted fine, no bad side effects
If you store basics (Wheat (and other grains), sugar or hioney, salt, dry milk will go along way to feed you.
But you will need a wheat grinder, oven, yeast, and on and on.
So? FOr most folks, the M/H backpacker packets might be the best best - and the family is more likely to eat them, so they can be rotated.
Walton Feeds dbA Rainy Day foods has a good site if you want to go the bulk grain route. They pretty much wrote the book on this kind of storage.
And if you have the space - bulk is the least expensive route.
Full disclosure - I was a RDF dealer 30+ years ago, so they have been in business long enough to show they know their stuff.
If you check the front page of TimeBomb2000 they have links to a lot of emergency/longterm storage food places. Also Honeyville and MREDepot are places people buy from.
http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/
http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/StoreFront
I can’t afford all that fancy stuff, I just buy in bulk what I already eat and rotate it. I eat very simply anyway so that’s no problem.