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In my case I have old #10 cans of wheat and beans and such, labor intensive, fuel intensive, boring, last ditch type foods to hold off starvation, but this sale gave me a chance to pick up some meat based, just add water type foods.

That's funny, I think of the freeze-dried foods that way - boring and bland. Eating one day after day will get old real quick. Like being on a permanent camping trip.

I've been practicing making 100% whole wheat bread with freshly ground wheatberries. It's yummy and more nutritious that way (fresh-ground). Now I'm into making pasta, biscuits, pancakes, etc. with the wheat berries as well.

Beans, yup - can be bland. I'm working on a set of recipes to utilize those to their best potential.

The main reason I'm stocking whole grains and beans with limited freeze-dried foods is that is nothing happens - those grains and beans will still be useful. I use them about every other day now. But will I eat freeze-dried meals or MRE's when other food is available. Not on your life ;) They are much more pricey AND will be a waste of money if all is well throughout the rest of my life span. (But I do have some - they will be a fast prep meal for busy days)

I eat a lot of beans and have ground and sprouted much wheat for meals and bread, in other words, using fresh wheat berries and fresh dried beans is easy and tasteful when you have a kitchen.

What I was referring to was being without a stove and having to secure water and fuel for utilizing 20 and 30 year old, hard, dried beans and wheat, that is a whole different ball game than me merely putting on a pot of beans and making some bread today.

During bad times or when I am sick or injured, having some powdered eggs or other just add hot water foods will be an important option and supplement to some boring meals of ground bean chunks boiled with wheat berries.

One survival trick with the beans since you won’t have refrigeration, is to cook the beans in canning jars, while pressure canning them, that way the fuel that you use will leave you with many jars of beans that won’t need refrigeration so the effort of making one meal, will actually give you several.