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Certainly are more light and compact than cans, jars, or aseptically sealed plastic (like the Dinty Moore stew trays). But costs more. Whether that form makes sense depends on whether one would expect to travel far from home on foot with lots of supplies, and how long one will want to keep them. November 2012 at home? Conventional food packaging will do.

Certainly are more light and compact than cans, jars, or aseptically sealed plastic (like the Dinty Moore stew trays). But costs more.

It would be a holiday after all. Why not live it up while you are huddled around a candle.

Here in Alaska, we have rural shipping services that mail cases of canned goods to road less areas with a strip. Over the last few years, I have hauled in (when our road is open during summer), shipped, and mailed supplies that will last us for 3-4 years. It's more just having it here than worries about panic. I bought 800 cans of tuna and expiration on cans say 2015; it will be eaten before then. Paper products good to stock up on, they'll sky rocket.

We've always had a huge garden, man can winter over quite well with 1000 lb tatoes in basement. We grow mostly cold weather vegetables though.

Our family got 3 moose and a bunch of caribou this past fall, all our freezer are jammed packed and we gave over a moose away to friends.

People don't have to buy expensive survival kits & foods. Just use common sense and stock up when canned goods are on sale, no joke.