I will be section hiking a 525 mile stretch from Springer to Marion VA soon. Getting my food drops ready. I plan to eat many freeze dried dinners. While shopping for the best price, I ran across the dinners packaged in #10 cans. The price of the cans is appealing. A dinner I like goes from $3 per serving to $1.81 per serving if I buy it in cans. My question: do any of you have experience splitting up the cans into servings? I can imagine it might be hard to get uniformity in the mixture. And I wonder about the food getting a little stale while sitting around in ziplock bags at various hostels and post offices. Experiences?