Reddit reviews Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
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> Just get a couple 55 gallon water drums and a few sack of beans, white rice, and sugar, that will last considerably longer for 20 times less than MRE's or freeze dried.
And by week 2 you'll be wanting to blow your brains out out of sheer boredom. Go read long-term survival situations, you can be surrounded by food and get so tired of eating it that you'll get a conditioned taste aversion and actually gag trying to choke it down after a while. People have nearly starved to death while surrounded by food that they were gobbling down in the beginning from this. Variety is important if you are prepping for a mid to long-term situation.
Edit: Read Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett. This is one example I can think of off the top of my head where one of the two shipwrecked groups on the island had ample access to food at one point and were having to force-feed themselves.
Endurance by Alfred Lansing.
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.