I do not have experience with MRE’s, but have read of whole shipments sitting on the dock, spoiled, something about the seal on the package not being right and they spoiled.
I would rather store the water and cook the dehydrated foods and if it is that desperate, you can take a rock and pound the grains for those with out teeth and still eat them, or mix the pounded grain with fat, lard, oil, honey or what ever you can find, taste will not matter, when it is survival time.
When a company tells me they have the best, I don’t shop there, I want the users to tell me it is the best.
I know that even past its prime, the dehydrated in cans can be eaten, as I had to, when I first had to quit work, I had a Mormon friends old stuff that she sent to me to feed the burros and wild animals, I ate most of it, at 20 or more years old and the wheat still sprouted.
I shop only at Walton’s, for I know the quality of their service and products, fresh, most is less expensive and if they are not swamped in orders, the year that I had no one to shop for me and they were my grocery store, I would have my order here in a week or less.
There are other Freepers who feel the same about Walton’s.
Dang, I was hoping that Walton would have some naked oats but no luck.
I want to plant some of them as a trial this spring. Regular oats are such a pain and next to impossible to hull without a lot of equipment.
Walton is great on those things that they do carry though.