In the same boat with young growing bellies.  If they can put it away like I did growing up its going to be a daunting duty.

The trick I have been using to make progress is a pressure canner.  I crunched the numbers and with the deal I got on my canner and with canned soups being on average $2.39 per can, the canner would pay for itself in 68 quart jars including the cost for the canning jars.  After that a dozen quart jars pay for itself at jar seven of the pack.

Once a week I'll make a very large soup, chili, etc and can half of it, usually around 6 quarts at a time.

I'll also splurge and buy an extra family pack of ground beef, or whole chickens when I see deals and precook them and can them for ala cart menu options for the rice, beans, and pasta.

It wont last as long as freeze dried, but I fear the premium you pay for freeze dried's shelf life is not going to be needed.  These are still things I can rotate easily enough once I finish my organization plan this year.  One of the upgrades is to add the closest use by dates to my labeling system to give me an idea something needs rotated.  This is one of the larger misses I had when prepping because my stuff is stored for transport, not FIFO on a rack.

That is where I'm moving right now, buffing up the emergency storage to hold us over till I can get the sustainment garden producing.

Its been a while since I tended a garden, but I have stuff going in this fall, and I plan to plant more heavily in the spring, including a guerilla gardening plan with edibles that might go undetected by people ignorant about what food can look like.  This is to help build up my farming skills again.  Eventually if this kicks off as bad as I think it could, the tribe subsists on the food we all have and can get hunting and fishing and use as much land as we can to put in a community garden fertilized by compost.  I still need to work out some of the storage ideas for seeds, fertilizers to help jump start things, etc.

Again this is just plan A.

I have networks in better more typical survival locations that would love to have us and much of this can be rolled out at those locations with some modifications.

Theoretically we have enough to provide security and people working on the life sustainment.  

Reading Blockade  The Diary of an Austrian Middle-Class Woman1914-1924 really opened my eyes to some realities I had not considered.  I highly recommend this for a dose of the grinding reality food shortage and currency devaluation brings.

ROFL. no.

you can also store coconut oil. It will never go rancid and is much healthier than lard because most of the lard has some hydrogenated oils thrown in

not really

go to BJs buy $400 worth of food including 2x$25 50 pound bags of rice

nobody will see anything abnormal

Yeah.