SO I KEEP SEEING SURIVIVAL BLOGS saying that freeze-dried foods are in short supply. But there seem to be plenty available here. So is there really a shortage?

UPDATE: Reader Brian Zachary writes:

After seeing your link to Mountain House foods on Amazon, I browsed to mountainhouse.com, and sure enough the top of the home page is a notice regarding overwhelming demand for their #10 cans, and that they are only selling them through certain dealers at this point. They’re all listed as out of stock on mountainhouse.com. Just throwing my 2 cents in.

Huh. But reader Paul Lindsey emails: “I’d say there is still plenty available. Here is a 40 person-year supply from Sam’s Club.” Good grief. My pantry isn’t that big. I’m not sure my house is. . . .