Long term food(efoodsdirect, mountain house, etc) -- broken down by cost/calorie

You need to break your numbers down to the the simplest common denominator for comparison's sake.

I don't have the time to do that for all your foods, but I do have a few points to make:

Many "survival food" sellers of all shapes and sizes are grievous offenders of improperly selling foods by the time period package. And doing it in the most deceptive and/or ignorant fashion.

I suspect some of these sellers don't know a serving from a meal. OR, they count on consumers not to know the difference.

Thus, you DO need to do some rough calculations of your own if you are new to storage food.

2000 calories a day is a good simple, standard basis for comparing foods for their time value.

Mountain House

For MH foods, figure two servings of food (if you have a wide variety of foods on hand to average out) per meal per adult. That will get you to the 2000 calories a day level.

Averaged out across their entire canned menu, cost is going to be $3.91 per double-serving meal when you purchase the food at the maximum discounted pricing allowed (25% off sales). (That's $.59 per 100 calories.)

JC Refuge said:

You need to break your numbers down to the the simplest common denominator for comparison's sake.

I don't have the time to do that for all your foods, but I do have a few points to make:

Many "survival food" sellers of all shapes and sizes are grievous offenders of improperly selling foods by the time period package. And doing it in the most deceptive and/or ignorant fashion.

I suspect some of these sellers don't know a serving from a meal. OR, they count on consumers not to know the difference.

Thus, you DO need to do some rough calculations of your own if you are new to storage food.

2000 calories a day is a good simple, standard basis for comparing foods for their time value.

Mountain House

For MH foods, figure two servings of food (if you have a wide variety of foods on hand to average out) per meal per adult. That will get you to the 2000 calories a day level.

Averaged out across their entire canned menu, cost is going to be $3.91 per double-serving meal when you purchase the food at the maximum discounted pricing allowed (25% off sales). (That's $.59 per 100 calories.)

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like the gentlemen said in the above post about the calories is around 2000 calories a day but also you have rethink some of the basic calories when you are stressed out or you are doing hard work you are going to burn up more calories than a normal person dureing this time person would not be burning up at rest or sleep

most of the food i stock is long term superpails and N10 cans type of items for makeing up my basic meal plan i have for iam not a really going to make up what the books on cooking with long term food items super meals items that they list in some of the books menus that they give you sometimes ..

my four basic side dish items i eat for side dish in a weekly basis for my eating habits
-x-rice
-x- diff type of potatoes-mixs
-x- bbq beans
-x- mac and chesse

then a combo of rice and beans or add some apple sauce as the second part of the side dish or make something like spaghetti and meat balls to the spaghetti sauce or sloppy joes with tvp meat and regular meat mix all togerther for make the meat i have go farther in the meals programs

then add the following items for my simple basic breakfast menu
-x-pancake mix
-x-eggs
-x-cereal
-x-oatmeal
-x-hashbrowns
-x-toast type items ..
then a combo of the items put togerther

then add a simple to make desserts out of the long term item that some of the long term food companys have in there list of food the socalled dessert items in there invertory

-x-jello style pudding in diff flavors
-x-jello style gelation in diff flavors
-x-yogurt in diff flavors
-x-cake mixs in diff flavors
-x-brownie mixs
-x-pie mix flavors
-x-simple wheat bread mix to make up two loafs a week ..
-x-pies crust

then add some of the drinks mixs in diff flavors along with sugar items to flavor the drink items and add some of the diff meats items and tvp meat flavors to the meal plan for makeing up the meals ..

so this is basically a list of the long term food supploes iam stocking up on in super pails and N10 cans items to make up my meal that i know that i will eat and drink from the long term supplies and not stock something that i know that i will not eat in the long run ..