Whether you store food from the grocery store or buy pre-packed emergency food, you need to check expiration dates as time goes on.

The essence of emergency food is that you need to keep it in storage, because you never know when you will need it. Which means that most of the time you will not need it (although you’ll feel awfully good about it when the time comes). Some prepackaged emergency food is intended for very long storage, up to 25 years. You do not have to check that type very often, lol. But some emergency food has a shelf life of perhaps five years, and some only a year or two. If you mix types or buy quantities at different times, you need to schedule checks every month or two.
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