You're just being difficult. You know what he means.
Seems whatever he could have meant had directly to do with canned food.
Shelf lives of these products:
Looks like most of that is canned. I was wondering what you'd do with large quantities of the rest, though. Guess you just eat stuff like yogurt quickly or give it away. But what will be the fate of those 400+ cereal boxes? Bought them all to give them away? That's pretty nice, actually.
You're just being difficult. You know what he means.
Shelf lives of these products:
Soup - 2 years
Tuna - 3 years
Instant Breakfast - 1 year+
Pasta Sauce - 2 years
Refried Beans - 2 years
Planters Peanuts 1 year
Cereal - 1 year
Granola Bars - 6 to 12 months
Tea - never
Frozen and refrigerated items you either don't buy in more than you can eat quantities, or you give them away before they go bad.
With a two year shelf life, I can eat a can of soup once every five days before it'll technically go bad. However, a lot of this stuff is still good even after the expiration dates.