With the food sector, it seems like the best long term investments have been in larger companies like these. I have these in my model portfolio as long term buy/hold - Coca Cola (KO) Coca Cola Consolidated (COKE) Diageo (DEO) Flowers Foods (FLO) Hershey (HSY) Kroger (KR) Mondelez Intl (MDLZ) Nestle (NSRGY) Pepsico (PEP) . ---