How long could you last with the food in your house today?
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Anonymous
What do you have in your pantry? |
Anonymous
| If the power stayed on, and we were aware that we were "rationing," at least 2 months. By rationing, I mean using food in the most economical way possible, not restricting calories. For example, not using a can of tomatoes to make shakshuka for breakfast, but saving it to make sauce. |
Anonymous
| I have 3 hungry teens....so maybe 3 days 😄 |
Anonymous
| 3 of us could last for a month. The very picky eater might choose death by starvation on day 3 over eating outside of his small list of preferred foods. Upside is the rest of us could then eat him, giving us another week or so. |
Anonymous
By these standards we are probably 10 days/2 months. I’ve probably got 10 days worth of dried pasta and jarred tomato sauce alone. |
Anonymous
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At least one year. My wife is a food nut. I have two full size fridges full of food. A gigantic deep freezer all packed.
Four huge pantry cabinets. I have been battling with her for years. We throw out expired food a lot. Sometimes 2-4 years past expiration if a can or box and frozen meat 1-2 years old. I threw out stale nestles quick powder a few weeks ago. Tasted funny after kid opened it and put in milk. It expired in 2017 |
Anonymous
| Maybe 3-6 months but we wouldn’t necessarily be eating good those last 3 months, lots of beans and rice. The tasty stuff and main protein sources would be gone in under a month. I’d have to shoot a deer or squirrels or something to be comfortable. |
Anonymous
Ditto. We could go for 8 months. Family of 4. |
Anonymous
| All of this assumes we keep electricity, which is a big assumption when talking about how long food would last in a dire situation. Even if you have a generator, it would depend on how much stored fuel you have. |
Anonymous
I grew up eating food like this for probably 20 years, not by choice but because we were poor and it was free. 9/10 times things last past expiration for a few years. Except canned tomatoes. Jarred tomatoes have a better shelf life. You can definitely taste/smell/hear when you open or shake that something isn’t right. Can freeze many things like butter, cheese, maple syrup, nuts, flour, sugar, rice, even nestle cocoa to extend the life if you wrap properly. Never got sick off anything, just followed the when in doubt throw it out rule. Store canned/jarred goods in cool dark place. Meat will last a few years if it’s freezer packed properly, either vacuum sealed or wrapped in freezer paper then double freezer bagged. Should try to cycle through freezer foods yearly though. Usually if ice gets on something you can just take a layer off and it’s fine. Thaw and cook it up and see how it tastes first. Slow cooking that type of meat seems ideal. If it’s mostly good, strip off the outside layer and turn it into soup. |
Anonymous
A fire and cast iron skillet works in a pinch. |
Anonymous
Unless you have a generator and a gun and fuel and food and a locked fence and doors people starving will just take it. And even with all that they can just set your house on fire. The meet in fridge will be nice and cooked after fire is out and your dead |
Anonymous
I'm this poster. This question is actually making me think if I could do this. Going to challenge myself to not go to the grocery store and only eat what I have in house and from garden. I'm going to miss having fruit, since I only grow summer fruits (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries), and I didn't preserve any this year. |
Anonymous
Why would they set the house on fire? |
Anonymous
| So PPs with long-term food storage -- what do you have? |