I have a years worth of canned and dried food in my pantry.

2 years if ramen and rice noodles count... I mean they found that one pot of noodles in China that was in excess of 4000 years old and all... HAHAHA

Anyway, I generally rotate out the items that need it monthly after giving them a year on the shelf and then donate the outgoing stock to food drives. They're still well within the expiration date of course.

I guess I could eat it constantly, but I really like to eat fresh when I can, so I end up donating quite a lot of canned goods.

I think the earliest expiration date I have on my shelf at the moment are a few cans of Vegetable soup dated mid 2007 and the latest date is a #10 can of Oriental Spicy Chicken that I need to get rid of by early 2035. LOL

Yeah, I'm one of those crazy folks that constantly feel the collapse of civilization as we know it, something close, or perhaps even the loss of my job is waiting around the corner. My Grandfather (mother's side) filled my brain with tales of the depression when I was young, and my father's father worked similar magic on my father's brain as well who then passed it on to me, so I was getting it double barrel growing up. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

On the upside if I'm wrong, and I hope that I am, a whole bunch of unfortunate folks will have a decent flow of food from my pantry. LOL

As far as water goes... I am severely under prepared in that department. I have about a week's worth stored at the most. I guess my thinking in regards to water is that if I ever needed more than a weeks worth, my Katadyn Pocket Microfilter and inline Carbon Filter would come into play and would hopefully work at least long enough for me to either find a steady source of water and/or build rainwater catchment and filtration system that I could maintain with minimal effort.

Oops... My paranoia is showing. LOL