The Walton Feed food is from almost every food group. I planned meals for a month, then ordered enough to last for my chosen amount of months. Foods that last forever on their own, I bought at grocery, like salt, sugar, honey, etc.. If TSHTF, I have stored grocery food to start using first and when that is gone, go to the Walton food.
For me, I found that planning meals helped me get the right amount of varied foods. Yes, there are a lot of Walton beans and I have various seasonings to use with those so they don't taste the same every time. I have a way to cook dried beans that doesn't take boiling them for hours and that saves fuel. I have rice to add to those beans to make a complete protein.
I have studied since 1998 to be able to be self sufficient so I don't have to depend on someone else to keep me alive. I have written numerous articles to help people begin to prepare. Those articles are on Survival Podcast website.
It was the cooking of the dried beans that I was getting to.
I wanted to make the point that everyone needs to be prepared to cook those dried items with minimal fuel use.
Every prepper needs a pressure cooker, and a pressure canner, and all the canning materials, as almost a starting point of their (long term) preparedness.
Dried beans and wheat are the foundation of a true melt down scenario that would throw us into a starvation situation, but facing two hours of cooking time, for each meal, is of course impractical for most of us, actually all of us, because even those living in timber, don’t need the unnecessary physical effort of hand cutting firewood that they are wasting with excessive cooking.
It is imperative that people get those pressure cookers, and learn how to can dried beans while allowing the canning process to do the cooking for instance, which means that one complicated fuel gathering and cooking session can produce many quarts of canned beans for the shelf.
They need to learn that you can bring your beans, or wheat berries to a boil in a pressure cooker, turn off the fuel, and that the beans/wheat will cook on their own.
Learning thermos cooking is useful also.