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An average person, not under stress, mind you, needs 2000 calories a day to survive. There is roughly 10 days of food in this kit, not 30. Since it is all cheap, freeze dried cereal of one form or another it's going to severely tax any water you may have set aside. The nutrition is suspect. Nowhere near the amount of fat a person needs (again, this rises drastically under stress) and the bare minimum of protein. An A and B case of MRE (proven nutrition) is cheaper and better in every way. In particular, not needing the extra water to hydrate your food is important. This is the basic problem with all freeze dried foods. They are great for saving space and weight but at an unacceptable risk The 10 year shelf life is a dangerous fib. Sure....these things will keep about 10 years if kept in a very dry, indoor, temperature controlled environment. The MRE actually tests the technology of the mylar pouch (which is what all these things are). As exposure to heat, cold, humidity etc. go up, the shelf life drops rapidly. Under the worst of conditions, shelf life is more like a year. So if you plan to store "survival food" in a shed outdoors, don't plan on it being edible a decade later. And if you bury it, don't bother digging it up. Every single grocery store in the US has vastly superior survival goods and they could not be cheaper. Our food supply is actually designed this way on purpose because of past wars that resulted in rationing and some items not available at times. So canned goods are everywhere and almost any staple imaginable comes in a can. All meats. Most vegetables and grains, soups, stews, chili. Not only are these things likely what you already eat regularly (meaning you can regularly use them and resupply with newer, fresh items) but canning technology has a rock solid proven shelf life longer than you do, no matter the environment. You can (and people have), buried canned goods for 20 years, dug them up and eaten them. Realistically, you maintain a pantry. Six months of food. You eat it regularly and replace what you used every week. What you should keep in the shed in the back is a six month supply of bottled water you use and replace regularly. This takes up far more space but is far more important than the food. Research these things. Knowing basics like a person needs 10 calories per pound per day is important for calculating how much food you need. So is knowing that if your lifestyle suddenly changes to where you need to spend all day long in back breaking labor as opposed to a modern sedentary lifestyle, that caloric need will double.. Under such conditions, this "30 day" food supply is more like five days.