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Good info and thanks!This is kinda've a complex question and really depends on a lot of factors, when it comes to "storage food" and "food that is almost ready to eat" these are very different angles. If you're looking at storage food, beans, rice, spam, oils, etc are going to be your go to, you're going to have to cycle this food every few years, however it's cheap, it's fairly nutritious, and it is easy to augment with other things, like freeze dried onions, or fresh vegetables, or some bonus meat from hunting.
I tend to depend on Mountain House for camping food, it's fast and easy to prepare and provides a good number of calories. (figure you're going to be eating a double "serving") If you're looking for something easy like this, I totally like MH, however it's use is very much limited to Heat and Eat application. Wise is another company that advertises extensively, however I would not recommend them, they like to play little games like having very small "servings" usually 200-300 calories, wise foods also tend to be nothing more than soup mixes, which both require a lot of water to prepare, are more difficult to handle, and require more cooking infrastructure. Half a canteen cup of hot water makes a full sack of MH. The MH meals are also usually about 300-400 calories per serving, and usually 2 servings per bag.