You are correct, all the way.
I am glad you are storing food, if you remember to rotate it, it will serve you well.
It took me years to convince my brother to put my bed frame on cement blocks, so boxes could be stored under it.
It works, amazing amount of storage space.
Look around, do you have a card table set up for holding this or that? replace it with sealed boxes of the newest foods and put a pretty sheet over it.......you may want a piece of thin plywood or that brown hard board on top of the boxes, under the sheet, if you need a hard surface.
I was born on a poor sharecroppers farm in Texas, if the crop was good, we got the extras, once a year, the rest of the time you made do with what you had.
So, I have always been a stockpiler and it has paid off more than once.
It is those unexpected things that makes you wish you had even more stored, as, when Bill walked in one morning and asked if I could take him to the hospital, [over 40 miles] as he thought he was having a heart attack.
It was 2 years before he could work again.
At that time, we lived in Wellton, AZ, then it had 200 people and almost no jobs for me.
We made it and my case lots helped, to take us over the hump to a job and survive.
I admire you for what you endured, Granny. Hopefully it will never be that bad, again.