We've just bought a month's supply of canned goods. Expiration dates are a couple of years off. Someone posted on the forum that Mountainhouse #10 cans have expiration dates of 25 or 30 years, so I went to the REI sale last weekend and saw that Mountainhouse plastic packs have expiration dates of 5 years and more.

I hate freeze-dried food, but it seems to last longer than conventional canning in unopened containers. Do I buy canned stuff I like and try to keep current on frequent rotation, or start buying freeze-dried stuff I don't like but which has much longer rotations for keeping fresh stock? Decisions, decisions.

At the advice of people here, I keep the month's supply of food in an automobile outside my house for access after house collapse, so it's not like the food turns up under my view as I cook. C'est la vie. Everything has plusses and minuses. (Why does plus have two ses but minus only one when plural?