When my parents gave up their home near us many years ago, they went to live with one of my brothers for a while, then a different brother for a short while and at the time of their deaths last March and April they were living with a sister who was their primary caregiver. They were both bedridden by that time... so they had stop worrying about food storage, but they ALWAYS stayed very prepared when they were running their households... They had a 2 year supply of all basic foods (and a lot of non-essential food too...) for more family than they personally were responsible for... and they did that all the years I was growing up. Dad always said he needed to have extra for those in the family that would need his help when times got bad. It is he who I get my general attitude about food storage from.

All of the siblings my parents went to live with decided they already had enough of their family food storage needs met... at least for the most part. A few things were moved at the time we sold the house, to augment the storage of some of my siblings, but in general the decision was made to give us the bulk of what they had, since we lived here close to them, and had helped them for some years with their home care. It was a HUGE BLESSING to us to recieve that storage. We were able to ratote through that wheat, rice and beans during the 3rd layoff hubby had, during which time he was back in school full time once again... for the 4th time in our marriage. This time he finished his Nursing Degree and left behind the degrees he had in the past (2 different Computer Science programs (15+ yrs in that field)... then he switched to Osha, Risk Management (10+ in that field)...) And while he was in school last time he only worked part time so we lived on my less than sufficient income.

That food storage we were using was in some cases MORE than 37 years old. When my parents passed they had been married 71 years... some of their storage had been moved all over the west from house, to house, to house... A lot of their storage was easier for them to rotate through, but they did not have the financial set backs that many families have had. My parents were very blessed and while they were never wealthy by any stretch... they had more years of plenty, then lean, so there was a lot of their storage that was never rotated suffiently or replaced. Also the information about storage guidelines was not as specific as it is today... In my family growing up we rotated the things we canned ourselves like fruits and veggies, but staples were simply stored for future needs, it seems... Dad told us... "You go ahead and use those cans of food... the Lord protects the food, for those that store in righteousness..." He was probably right about that too... but we also know now that food last longer than they thought even 10 years ago...

Since we received that storage from Mom/Dad and some other storage we were given from people moving away from our area... we have rotated through much of it and we have been well fed by it... now what we bought ourselves is starting to reach higher date codes... It is nice for me to KNOW, not just believe, that some food stays nutritionally sound a lot longer than the doomsayers thought it would. My dad always said it did, and this is another area in which "Father knew BEST".

I'm curious about what the "not honey" was. If it was just crystallized honey, that could have been restored with boiling water.
I have no idea how long triticale is supposed to last, since when hybridizing wheat with rye the grain may have lost its staying qualities. But wheat will last probably longer than you will. They've recovered some wheat from tombs in Egypt that is a couple of thousand years old that still sprouted. Granted, that environment tends to preserve things well.

That was what I understood about honey also - that it lasted forever, and didn't spoil. I wasn't there when the can was opened, but it's possible the 'not honey' was just a bunch of crystalized stuff that could have been melted back into honey.