To me it means several things.
First is just because something stores a long time don’t store it if you don’t eat it! Store what you eat and eat what you store.
A good example of this is those 1 month, 3 month, 1 year and so on food kits (this pertains to MRE’s as well)that are so popular.If you never tried them how do you know you will eat them. Lets say the kit comes with 10 different dinners a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i and j. Now you like a, b and f. You find c, g, j and h are tolerable, but d and i are horrible and h you wouldn’t feed to your dog. That means you will hold out on those three and someday you could find yourself with only food you can’t STAND! 30% of your food storage is almost UNLESS!
There’s also something called food fatigue it’s were you have the exact same thing every day for weeks on end soon you have to make yourself eat and before long much of what you prepare goes uneaten. JRandomFreeper is more knowledgeable on this as he has seen it happen. Same with your stores oatmeal for breakfast, spam and flat bread for lunch and rice and beans for supper day in and day out will get old so store as much variety as you can, spices, gravies and additives to dress up those staples are a MUST!
The second thing is food and guns aren’t enough in themselves. Lots of food and guns won’t get you through. The most valuable thing is knowledge. You have to know what to do with what you have you need to have a plan a, b and c. Also the longer the situation last the lower morale gets. People stop being sharp and nerves become frayed remember moral of your group is important.
Lastly man does not live by bread alone all the guns gadgets and food in the world won’t get you as far as Faith alone will. Trust in God and keep the Faith.
You might find this article useful:
http://thesurvivalmom.com/2011/11/20/8-morale-boosters-for-any-worst-case-scenario/
Food fatigue is over rated.
I've been on a severely restricted diet for three years now due to reactions to food from a mast cell disorder. Essentially all I can eat is oatmeal and chicken, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks. I can small amounts of other foods on occasion to break the monotony but not enough to survive on if there's no oatmeal and chicken.
Yeah, it was tough at first, but you do get used to it. And hunger goes a long way to making the same thing day in and day out go down easier.
When you're hungry enough, you become grateful for what you have.
And you eat it.
If/when TSHTF, I have a couple months worth of chicken canned and frozen, and enough oatmeal to get by.
Then either God heals me or I die.