A year for one adult is 1,800 to 2,200 lb of fresh food and about 200 cycles. Here is why you buy the calorie base and freeze dry the quality instead.

Mylar for long-term, jars for the working pantry, buckets as an outer layer against rodents. They solve different problems, not the same one.

No, not for mylar storage. An absorber gets residual oxygen under 0.1% where a vacuum sealer manages 1 to 3%, and it does not crush the food.