Long Term Emergency Food Storage

[Brian]

One of the main problems preppers face with food provisions is shelf life. A lot depends on the BO or BI approach chosen as this affects the volume and weight of the stores we can practically have on hand or take with us and therefore determines the type of food we put aside.
To me it makes sense to try to cover both options if we can, ie. a reserve of canned / dried food that has a reasonable medium shelf life and some longer term emergency rations. There are some freeze dried foods on the market that only need water added and these have a shelf life of 25 years, although they very expensive they don't need rotating within this period.
My choice is canned / dried foods which I rotate (the volume is limited by the space I have available) and a small stock (cost limits the quantity) of emergency 25 year shelf life freeze-dried for the BO scenario, giving me a a minimum month's supply in this case.
Brian