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What I notice about that particular brand is that it seems to be full meals and 90% carbs!

That is some expensive mac & cheese too! The long term stuff can be ten times the expense for half the product. 32 pounds for six servings of beef stew? are you loosing it LAC? Go to Tesco and see how many cans of good quality beef stew 32 pounds will buy! And it will keep until the plague is over I'm sure. Probably ten years longer as we were saying.

I do know that 32 pounds would buy me around 20 tins of Walmart brand Spam and 10 kilos of rice, and that would keep me alive for a month.

Pasta and rice are the main bulk in these meals and you can buy that cheaper, and keep it stored just as long at a much cheaper rate. Vacuum sealed pasta, instant potato, or rice is going to last nearly forever, that is why rice, wheat, barley, potatoes and maize were the base of early civilizations, they keep long term with no special attention.

The only 25 year items I have stored are commercially prepared ground beef and powdered eggs.

After opening, the GB is still good in its freeze dried form for a year. Living alone I can reconstitute a couple of spoons full of GB and fill out a carb based meal like the ones you show at much cheaper rate. Two spoons of GB, an hand full of rice or pack of ramen and a tin of greens would keep me alive for another day, not to mention what I could forage out here in the boondocks.

I decided that I would miss my eggs terribly and I use them for a lot of baking, so I want to have some form of egg in a crisis. I could stand powdered for as long as they last.

That's just me and my preferences.

Whatever you decide just make sure you add plenty of salsa, brown sauce, tabasco, salt and pepper to the stores. There is a reason the military puts that in each and every ration pack!