storing them in high heat or direct sun light lessens the shelf life.Manufacturers usually list shelf life degradation of their MRE's when stored in such extremes.
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yes they go bad. And NEVER EVER let them even get so much as a pin prick hole anywhere in the packaging. The smell of rotten MRE's is not something I'd ever want to experience again. I worked in the veterinary corps when I was in the Army and we had to assist in the inspection of multiple cases of MRE's that had come back from the Gulf. ( early 1990's) I was a veterinary technician working on animals and cross training with the food inspectors. Let me tell you that skunks and week old road kill in southern AZ in the summer have NOTHING on the smell of a box of rotten MRE's. 
Take those "charts" with a BIG grain of sand.
Here's video proof of how MRE's fared in a high heat environment over the long term.
It's nothing in this area for it to get to 110 in the summer for a week or more. By the gubmint charts all these MRE's should have been inedible about 10 years ago. There's some fruit cocktail from 95 in there. Stored in Florida and in Georgia, either in garages or outside metal buildings.
Yes, you SHOULD store your food in better conditions if you can. When it gets to be more than just a couple cases of this and that, storage space becomes an issue.
I worry a LOT less about temperature in storage than I used to. 22 years of storing food has taught me that many of the commonly held and repeated "truisms" in storing food AREN'T.
Lowdown3
Here's video proof of how MRE's fared in a high heat environment over the long term.
It's nothing in this area for it to get to 110 in the summer for a week or more. By the gubmint charts all these MRE's should have been inedible about 10 years ago. There's some fruit cocktail from 95 in there. Stored in Florida and in Georgia, either in garages or outside metal buildings.
Yes, you SHOULD store your food in better conditions if you can. When it gets to be more than just a couple cases of this and that, storage space becomes an issue.
I worry a LOT less about temperature in storage than I used to. 22 years of storing food has taught me that many of the commonly held and repeated "truisms" in storing food AREN'T.
Lowdown3
Emergen-C is the bomb! Great stuff! We found a bunch on clearance years ago and bought like 20 boxes of it for $2. a box . Sad day when it ran out
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