[hennie pennie]

Yeah, if there is a REAL emergency, you must ration the canned stuff by making sure to eat at least one-half cup of oatmeal and one cup of white rice each and every day --- and a nutritious dried bean or legume soup at least a couple times a week.

Cans of food don't go very far.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Good advice and more will be found here for the survival foods, more are in threads one and two, linked from the first post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=7626

HP, thanks for the ping, I have linked this thread to the above thread, for one cannot have too much information.