Apartment life just does not allow us to have a pantry stocked with food for a year. My emergency stash is food that you would find stored in a life boat. Not something I want to eat, but it lasts and takes up a cubic foot of space. I have more food stored too, but it comes and goes quickly.

Just for completeness, this is the stuff or similar to the stuff deep in the back of the closet: http://www.quakekare.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=22. I wish we had more room amd storage capability, but for now, we don't. So, I've got enough for us to ration them out over a month. Hopefully, it will never some to that.