Seven years!? That's food storage in biblical proportions!
Maybe. If anyone has heard about 7 years of feast and 7 years of famine, we understand that.
@sonya123 Once wheat or any grain is ground, it loses freshness quickly, even if it is stored in Mylar. This is why there is the suggestion of storing wheat. Many of the suggestions for food storage is whole foods, like wheat, rice, and beans. Do I want to live on that? Nope! But I do know that they can be supplemented when we have things to supplement with. Wheat has been found in caves in the Middle East, in ceramic containers that was 1000's of years old and still viable, sprouted. Flour that old would probably be black and disgusting.
I'm not a fan of Spam either, but there are people who stock up on it and like it.
It has been suggested somewhere here that few of us will survive what is ultimately coming. I really believe that. I'm not sitting around in fear. I just keep working on being prepared. There are people who prepare for more short term possibilities and then there are people who keep stocking up, adding more grain, dehydrated and dried foods because they understand the situation any of us could be in if the forms of transportation are disabled due to roads being out, railways being destroyed, etc.
Since we are not used to living such a primitive lifestyle, it is hard for some people to even imagine living off of basic foods and not running to the store whenever they want or need something.
Space is a consideration for all of us. I once read about a couple who wanted to have food storage and had no space for it. They got busy. They had an attached garage. They parked a utility trailer in the garage and kept digging out a crawl space until they had a decent space to store the food they wanted. The dirt went into the trailer. They would cover it and drive it out to dump it, so neighbors were not seeing what they were doing. I cannot imagine the back breaking work.