Canned gravy will kill anyone that is not a longhaul trucker, military, nurse or a construction worker.
Best to make your own with a couple table spoons of flour, oil and a little black pepper. It's not that hard to make and homemade gravy won't give you the indigestion that canned gravy will. ;)
I make a gravy for 2 using 1/4C inst. non-fat dry milk. Similac I think it’s spelled. 1TB flour, 1 TB corn starch and about 15 oz liquid of choice. I use veg, chicken, or beef broth. That’s the basic ingredients. Experiment for flavors.
Can be used as a sauce adding cheese.
I need to stock up on these dry products.
I started stocking up on coffee 3 years ago. Sure glad I did.
To each his own, but I'm with you on making my own. Much tastier. Add a couple shakes of dehydrated onion bits, yumm.
The main thing is to stock what your family already eat and enjoys. In disruptive times, at least food can be what brings normalty. I don't have as much as I want but we can get by for a little while be it a national emergency, a weather event, or a financial crisis.
Cooking skills is a must. Those who have no culinary skills past ramen noodles aren't going to make it. Having a simple cookbook with the basics is a must. Knowing what ingredients can be substituted with others raises those skills - squash turned into apples, nuts as flour, and how to use spices. Learning, now, to combine what some would consider quirky ingredients takes those skills even further - using vegetables as a dessert or treat, gluten or wheat free cooking, etc.
What's important here is calories. You're not going to be sitting around in a TEOTWAWKI senario, you're going to be very active dealing with security and other tasks.