I vaccumm pack almost everything in my / wife's BOB . Clothes, fire-starting "stuff" and yes food. I share a lot of your ideas, I personally pack complete meals in vaccumm bags. I have beans, jerky, dehydrated onion, salt pepper, boulion and mushrooms. I have similar with rice and chicken jerky, chicken and noodles and beef and noodles, etc... For breakfast, oatmeal with dehydrated apples, Rice with sugar and cinnamin. All vaccumm packed with my food saver. That is also the reason my BOB weighs so much! BTW I have tried the meals after a year and it was all as good as it could be with the limited items I had, but it filled up three adults and 1 child per meal. All I can say is I am a true advocate of a vaccumm sealer. Seal everything is my motto.