Try #10 cans of food from:
www.waltonfeed.com
You can keep enough cases of cans under your bed to feed you for a year. I keep to basics like oatmeal, rice, potato flakes, barley, powdered milk, etc.
The food is good as long as the cans don’t rust through. You can paint the outside with clear shellac, candle wax, etc. to keep them about 100 years.
Buy food from Walton by the pallet to save on freight. For about $1000 you can buy enough to feed a family for a year.
That’s a lot cheaper than freeze dried.
A small pressure cooker will save on fuel and cooking time. With a grain grinder, you can bake bread using fresh flour forever. The whole grains in sealed in mylar bags inside 6 gal. pails will keep for at least 20 years.
Darn, you just told them where my Walton food is.
My grown son and two other family members, shake their heads at the #10 cans under the beds they use. They have never cared enough to see what is in any can. I think they believe it is just regular canned food that will go bad. All three of them stay away from any food in a can - they are “modern” eaters only of fresh food. They even frown at frozen food from the grocery.
You know what I think? If a long term emergency happens, they will come here and look to see what is in those cans.
Right now, I'm the nutsy prepper family member to them.
I’ve been wondering about going the other way from pasta to bread.
Can pasta be ground fine enough so that somebody could add water and yeast, thus making dough, bake it and get bread?
I’m big on storing pasta because it’s dry, neither too acidic or basic, it can be cooked in a few minutes, and can be eaten in a wide variety of recipes.
BTW, a 5 gallon plastic bucket will hold 10 pounds of egg noodles. I have been concentrating on 5 gallon storage lately.