My late husband was always “stocking” canned and boxed food. After he passed away I began reading expiration dates. Canned food is not good over 10 years and I would not have used all the canned food he had. I just threw it out after a large can of Pineapple juice exploded and made the biggest mess. I keep just enough Flour & meal to make breads and butter & milk from a local dairy. I shop for the things I eat every two weeks. I went on shares with a garden and find that I go and gather from it and give it to my son’s family. I just don’t like veggies. The local Piggy Wiggly stays fairly well stocked.
buy things when on sale, use them....try to keep several months ahead....salt and sugar can last forever and hard liquor too....
we've finally used our stash of tuna and now we've got many dozens of cans of salmon to use up....
Obtaining it before need is half the battle. storing it is the other half.
We have 2 kinds - “iron rations” stored in 30 year containers that won’t be fun but will keep us alive. Then there are the shorter term storage items that we eat anyway and rotate.
“Canned food is not good over 10 years and I would not have used all the canned food he had. I just threw it out after a large can of Pineapple juice exploded and made the biggest mess. “
I don’t necessarily agree with about the expiration of canned food, but I did share your experience with canned fruit. I had several cans of peaches and pineapple explode. Worst part is I had it stored in totes and didn’t know about the problem for quite some tine. It was pretty disgusting.