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.
I thought you were speaking of freeze - dried meals. Not dehydrated components. I have bunches of dried milk, eggs, tomato powder, etc as well. Good stuff to use with other ingredients.
How long do you cook the beans before starting the canning process (90 min cook-time, I assume)?