My son and I researched a lot before purchasing Wise Company food storage. For the quality and amount of food you are getting the price can't be beat. I hope to never have to use these but they give me great peace of mind adding them to my family's emergency preparedness kit. I have sampled the pastas and potatoes before at a outdoorsman type store and thought they were surprising really good. They were something I could live on without dreading mealtime if I had too. Although I suppose that during an end of world event I would get to the point where any food would be acceptable. An other brand I have tried was hard to gag down and left an after taste that wouldn't go away.Wiseman products are well preserved and packed in foil packets and then sealed in airtight/waterproof buckets. So even if something happens to the buckets the packets should still be okay.I live along a fault line on Alaska and had put off getting serious about having an emergency stash once I moved off the islands. On an Alaskan island food storage is essential but now having ready access to Walmart and Costco I got lazy. I finally purchased these buckets after thinking about it for months cause it is a serious investment. I ordered them on a Saturday, January 23, 2016. I kid you not, super early Sunday morning we had a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. Most stores lost their milk stock and anything in glass jars. We couldn't drink our well water for over a week. I'm not saying we were destitute and desperate but it was a wake up call for sure.The emergency preparedness teams up here tell us that after a major natural disaster we could be on our own for up to 2 weeks because of our location to the rest of the country and that non-perishable food rations are essential.I have since also purchased Wise Company's buckets of dried fruit. Having these food buckets in with the rest of our emergency stash gives me great peace of mind knowing that if it gets down to it at least food is one less thing I and my family will have to worry about. When it comes to that point you will be glad you took the time and spent the money on these.