@LifeIsShort MRE's have been known to survive from the Boer War over a century ago, there are videos of people eating them online. They expire, but often are still edible decades later.
You are better off buying bags of rice, ramen, beans, etc.
@LifeIsShort I live off MRE's of a type each night- I bought a boatload of Beefsticks and Cheese that doesn't reqhire refrigeration on the cheap.
That's your equivelent of the rations used during the Revolutionary War to War of 1812, not including jared rations.
You just add rice, beans, canned food. Then if you kive in say Texas and the power grid goes out for a week, you use a already stored butane stove ($30-40) and some butane cans you bought after reading this post, and survive off that. Keep some gallons of water bottled up, and a cold weather sleeping bag.
That's all lrepping is. You don't need a camo jacket, or dig a bomb out shelter in the back yard, or learn how to make bows and arrows from scratch. It's having common sense commodities around so you don't immediately starve if food doesn't make it to port on time or the hugheay system breaks down. So you don't have to scavenge for food at a ransacked walmart during a riot, etc. You just sit at home, eat your rice and wait it out.
