Along the lines of normal vs apoca, note that even living paycheck to paycheck, most people, pay monthly bills. So by default, most people would exist status quo for a month. Thus normal pantry of any intelligence in grocery shopping = at least 2 weeks, if not a month of food. 

A few candles and normal power outage preps etc. Like the baseline is essentially always a month to start, minus tacticool nonsense. I mean if you're poor, you have a shovel, don't go buy a tacticool ninja shovel. 

You have a shotgun and 30 rounds, you have a set of kitchen knives and a sweet cheap utility knife. Buy some boxes of pasta and rice on sale and have a few bags of cereal and a tub of oatmeal, you're good for a month if any normal sense of shit. 

You have the ability to pay your bills for 6 months if you lost your job, then a 6 month pantry and a couple hundred dollar generator and a backup heater, etc all start to be reasonably affordable. 

Well, without shopping around, if their claims are accurate, seems it would fit. 

I'd say basic survival food, for normal pantry, maybe 200/month. So 700 for 3 months isn't terrible? 

But I'd say you should buy a single set and try it, maybe see which ones are palatable out there? 

My personal thought, though I was listing simple metrics is that up to around a 1 year rotation is probably best handled with "normal food." But going well beyond that, this sort of thing becomes more useful. 

But say 3 years, x 3 people, is $25,000... 

If you are still paying a mortgage and capable of losing your house if you got laid off, then you have far more improtant preps than hobby food. 

My go to recommendation is to pair "normal preps" first and "apoca-preps" no more than. 

That is simply put, there are two things to prep for, life/disaster. Life preps are important and actually statistically far more likely to occur. So you should spend the money and resources prepping = your ability to survive without a job in a non-apocalypse. 

If you can roughly survive for 20 years without a job, and buying 20 years of food doesn't change that, then you can buy 20 years of food. 

If you can only survive 6 months without a job, then you should only be spending your apocalypse money to 6 months levels. 

Caveat in theory, but 99% bullshit, is if you had legitimate cause to know the apocalypse was coming and you don't need money anymore..... but probably not. 

So, like if you're 45, have your house paid off, and 800K in your 401K, 25K sitting around for a new roof or such normal misery. At least 10K chilling for vehicle issues. And have saved up 25K fun money to buy 3 years worth of hole in the ground food. Go for it. 

20 years for 3 people, is 151K. For what is 90% going to be the equivalent of a beanie babies collection that feels cool and ends up being disposed of when you die. 

Do you have 150K of pure fun money? Or 50K if you're alone? If you car died tomorrow, do you replace it in cash instantly with zero give a shit?