re: Gee SDG..........
Well its moslty my wife's doing. When stuff goes on sale she buys as much as she can. for the long-term storage we've slowly built it up aver time. A lot of people think its weird that mormons stockpile food. they tend to change their mind about that after a disaster. When Katrina hit, the mormons were on the scene long before the government trucks arrived. I read an article that stated trucks were loaded in Salt Lake City and headed for Louisiana before the storm made landfall.
The food storage isn't just for natural disaster preparedness though. Economic disasters can hit anybody any time with loss of employment. Its nice knowing we can always eat. Its also nice to always have enough to share when those around us hit hard times.