Survival types know the huge problem food poses.
It spoils. Simply that.
Peanut butter lasts. But not forever. Honey lasts. But not forever. Meat? Shut off power to the fridge and see how long it lasts.
China hoarding food face this problem. Anyone hoarding food faces this problem.
The McCandless kid in Alaska discovered it. He killed a deer or elk or something. Got a meal out of it. Out of the entire meal. Then another was worrisome. And then the maggots appeared and the rot. Hundreds of pounds of meat. He got at most 2 pounds of it.
Read some survivalist sites to see the problem. You got crops? Great. Think you can store through the winter and summer to the next crop? The rats and mice and bacteria laugh at you.
Simple solution, get a freeze drying machine. That stuff keeps practically forever.
There are food that can be stored for a long time. At least long enough to get you through a year. The military has experience in stockpiling food for long-term storage.
Yep. It’s pointless. Every pioneer family starved every single winter. No one made it through. That’s why the west is a vacant wasteland today.
And yet our ancestors managed to store food for long periods before easy refrigeration became widely available. Drying, smoking, making jerky, canning with heat, and many, many more. Refrigeration is easier and faster, sure, but....there “are” other ways...
MRE’s don’t spoil !!
Look up pemmican the native Americans used it to carry meat for years without refrigeration. Freeze dried meat lasts for decades sealed in air tight vacuum bags. Salted dehydrated jerky keeps for years as well. The British sailed around the world and held a world wide empire with hardtack and barrels of salted meats. It’s where the expression scraping the bottom of the barrel comes from. Hardtack from the 19th century has been found and tested to still be edible. Canned foods last for hundreds of years, recently canned food from the 1800s was found in a lake bed in Canada from that era the researchers tested it for.pathogens the found zero , they also tested for.nutrients over half.
.remained after more than a hundred years they determine it was still.edible but were prohibited from trying it but scientifically it was safe to eat still. If you know what you are doing you can store food for.decades of not centuries
Chocolate bars? Twinkies?
Well nothing lasts forever. But those seem to hold up for a lifetime.
And millions of Mormons laugh right back. They’re supposed to keep a years worth of food on hand. It won’t last forever, but it doesn’t need to.