CHEESE

Cheese has served as a hedge against famine and is a good travel food. It is valuable for its portability, long life, and high content of fat, protein, calcium, and phosphorus. Cheese is more compact and has a longer shelf life than the milk from which it is made.

Cheese has kept many a pilot alive when stranded between systems. The freeze dried hard cheese carried in many emergency ration kits is nutritious and even semi palatable despite being stored well past its use by date.