What should I know about buying and using emergency rations?

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Do you remember the big deal made out of Y2K? That was when we turned to the year 2000. A lot of people started buying up emergency preparedness items. My brother was one of them. Really, who needs 5 bottles of Hershey’s syrup? No, he didn’t use up the rations. He ended up tossing a lot of the stuff when it expired.

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