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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 4198626, member: 27832"]Here's something I don't get about actual prepping -- laying in enough freeze-dried and canned food to last for a few weeks, or months, or years. The stuff keeps a long time, but not forever. If I buy it now, but don't need it for ten years -- well, eating ten-year-old canned stuff may not be that much better than starving. "No problem," I've heard, "just cycle through the stuff so that you replace it every few years." The problem: I don't eat this stuff under normal circumstances. I do go through a little bit of canned soup, and canned baked beans are easier to deal with than cooking a huge batch from scratch. But canned vegetables? Nope, fresh or frozen taste better and retain more vitamins. If I make canned food part of my routine diet, I'm probably shortening my lifespan, by cutting my vitamin intake and increasing my salt intake. If I need to do that as part of a prepping plan, it really CAN hurt to be prepared. The best plan I've been able to come up with is to lay in a short supply of canned/non-perishable goods, and figure on replacing it six months or a year before expiration, and donating the rotated-out stuff to a food bank. (If I couldn't afford or couldn't obtain food for my family, you bet I'd be willing to eat from cans.) How do other people deal with this? Or am I just way too fussy about eating from cans?[/QUOTE]