How long could you last with the food in your house today?
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Anonymous
| I was stocking my pantry the other day after grocery shopping and realized I could probably feed my family of 5 for about 2 maybe 3 months (if we rationed) with the food we have in the pantry, two fridges and deep freezer. Not sure if that is normal or I just keep a lot of food in my house! |
Anonymous
| 2 weeks maybe. |
Anonymous
| we just have 1 fridge/ freezer but also just 2 of us. i think we could go about a month with rationing. |
Anonymous
| Like - eating everything including the old cereal and canned peas from 2017? Maybe 3 weeks. Since we are on a well, I am more worried about the grid going down and not having water. |
Anonymous
Hah yes like everything goes sort of thing and we are at the end of days. I have cans and jars of food that I don’t even know how old they are - should probably clean out my pantry! |
Anonymous
| We could last a while. I have big bags of flour etc and could bake us bread / baked goods to survive on for weeks. Cupboards, fridge, and freezer would probably last us 3 weeks |
Anonymous
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Maybe 1 1/2-2 weeks? Currently we are a family of 3 (2 adults and a teen boy)
We have one (not very large) fridge and a small pantry closet (not walk in.) No deep freezer. |
Anonymous
| 3 months. DH does all the grocery shopping and might have a bit of a problem buying too much. We also have a couple of cases of freeze dried food that would cover the last month. I go through everything 3 or 4 times a year and make a run to the local food pantry before anything expires. |
Anonymous
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Survive? Probably a month.
Be happy with? A week. |
Anonymous
| Gosh, I’m impressed by all of you! We don’t have enough for lunch or dinner every day this week—I need to do a shop. |
Anonymous
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Probably 2 weeks. I have mostly produce, so would have to make some soups/stews and freeze them before everything goes bad.
But, I have a garden which is producing enough for me to eat everyday, so I think I would be OK. Just me in the house now. |
Anonymous
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A long while, especially if we included the yard and garden and we started rationing. Several months, maybe, if the power stayed on. We canned from our garden and farmers market so have lots of tomatoes, apples, and peaches, whole, sauce, and jellies. Potatoes from the garden in the cellar and a big bag of rice from the Asian market. Pasta and canned beans and tuna.
Without power we'd have to figure out how to preserve the half a cow from my cousin's ranch in the deep freeze really fast. Make jerky dried with coals from the fire pit? I should get a book in how to do that for when the Internet disappears. We live near woods and a field and could forage some edibles like dandelion and wild mustard and purslane and chicken of the woods (the latter with the shortest season). When you grow up an hour's drive from a real grocery, you get used to having a pretty stocked pantry. |
Anonymous
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with my huge bag of rice my H bought for 2020 that we hardly dented and the meat in the fridge - 3 months
if this was June/July/August we have a garden that would supply us with herbs/zucchini/tomatoes/cucumbers |
Anonymous
| Maybe 1-2 weeks. It would be a lot of pasta and beans 😂 |
Anonymous
| Months. We'd finally eat all the impulse buys that my husband always gets at Costco! |