> FWIW, Mormons are experts at having enough for a full year for a family that might be 12 members, but they have special things they get like gallon sized cans

> FWIW, Mormons are experts at having enough for a full year for a family that might be 12 members, but they have special things they get like gallon sized cans of unground wheatberries, for making flour by grinding it. Latter-day Saint here. This indeed was a teaching of the Church for quite some time, not so much anymore as it has shifted to general emergency preparedness [1][2][3][etc]. Some indeed still keep decent food stores though, we can order cases of #10 cans for varying things from the Church online [4] (the general public can too). Some people keep a lot of freeze dried stuff, some can their excess that they grow, others just keep a lot of staples on hand that they rotate through. Personally I can feed myself for a few months on freeze dried stuff and 10-30 year canned staples then another 1-2 months on stuff I rotate through and eat daily (beans, oats). [1] - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/emergency-preparedness?lang=eng https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topi... [2] - https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/preparedness https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/preparednes... [3] - https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-announces-updates-to-food-storage-emergency-preparedness?lang=eng https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/church-annou... [4] - https://store.churchofjesuschrist.org/ https://store.churchofjesuschrist.org/ click all categories, food storage (direct linking to the page will often generate errors)