Mrs. Child and I would get somewhat bored with 3 meals a day of the same things, but we’d be properly nourished for at least a month.
Canned corn
Canned green beans
Canned refried beans
Canned black beans
Canned baked beans
Canned white potatoes
Canned chicken
Canned salmon
Canned smoked trout (delicious!)
20 lbs of white rice
10 lbs of dried pinto beans (vacuum packed)
2 Half gallon jars of cream of wheat & oatmeal
A couple of cases of flavored canned seltzer water
A case of wine and several bottles of bourbon
Upright freeze crammed with meat
And......a properly stocked gun safe.
And the obligatory motorcycle in case I have to ride around shooting zombies. LOL
All of the above comes at a surprisingly low cost, except for the alcohol and the frozen meat of course. And doesn’t take up a lot of space.
The BIL & his NY wife think we are kooks, no surprise.
I suppose you could eat all the “survival cache” foods at the end, or at the beginning. My thoughts were to just eat the normal stuff, just either intersperse it, or have it over a pasta or rice base.
Salmon over rice, instead of just salmon. Likewise with chicken. Chili Mac instead of chili ( ok, for some that is sacrilege). Soup as a rice dish instead of as soup. Casseroles.
Potatoes are a good add, though their lifespan is more limited. There are a lot of things you can do with them.
It takes so, so little, if you are ok with starch. While it’s still cheap and simple to do better, even $30 can do a lot.
Chicken quarters at Walmart - .49/lb.