At LEAST keep a year's worth of dried beans and dried grains so that when your whole crop fails, you can survive (even if while eating like a bird) to plant again next year.
And yea, that's about 470 lbs of rice and beans. It's a lot -- but it's also actually more surprisingly doable for ~$600 or so.
I can't promise you won't spend months cursing me for giving you this advice and wishing you'd just starve to death...but you can at least survive enough to maybe have enough strength to go do some fishing or hunting while you wait for your crops to come in...
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Gemini tells me you should probably also add some dried tomato power -- it'll make the rice and beans more palatable, and add some vitamin C and A to prevent scurvy and blindness, while still being shelf stable. Obviously you can do more with a multivitamin, a few lbs of iodized salt (for your thyroid), and if you wanna really weather the failure in luxury, as much ghee as you can keep around. I think I know of a @Great Ghee guy who can help you out on that last point. Unlike butter, it's shelf stable.
But if you're going to keep 2 things to make sure your caloric needs are met, it's hard to go wrong with rice and beans for the cost, weight, and stability. Going with only one or the other will leave out amino acids.