Buy bulk beans, rice, Powdered milk, butter, and other items and store them in 5 gallon buckets with "Gamma Seal" lids. If you know how to cook, you won't starve. Kill a deer, make jerky, store it the same way. It can be reconstituted and added to your beans or rice. Eggs can be pickled uncooked and whole by using pickling lime. no need for refrigeration. Ever heard of salt pork? yep. just like a ham, you can remove the moisture and keep the flies off, it will last. There is absolutely no reason to buy those premade ready to scarf meals. Currently, I have 1 bucket of flour, 1 bucket of coffee, 1 bucket of salt, 1 bucket of rice, 1 bucket of sugar and one bucket of beans. Actually I have another 25lbs of salt not in bucket, and extra beans. I'm going to do a bucket of mashed tater flakes, and a bucket of dried fruit soon. Stock up on fishing gear, hunting gear, camping gear. water purification, and My favorite, a pot still. yep, a pot still of some sort. You can distill clean water, or make moonshine. Sorry for the book.