How long could you last with the food in your house today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Good for you. But what is the point of this thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Good for you. But what is the point of this thread?

Have you not seen the responses?? Many of us are enjoying participating. What a ridiculous post, PP. Why are you here if you don't get the point?

[Anonymous]

A couple of weeks with the fresh and canned food and about 6 months with the freeze dried, 20 year self life, emergency food buckets.

[Anonymous]

Probably several weeks. Not fresh. But we have canned goods and cereals/grains to last a while. We eat a lot of tuna so it would be protein/grain for every meal.

[Anonymous]

Probably a few weeks. Used to be months (although the meals would get pretty weird after a few weeks -- I know this because trying to use up all my pantry food before moves has always been hard) but now I have two young kids and they are less flexible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Your garden is still producing? Mine is done. We don't plant or enjoy squash though.

I have a bunch of eggs, flour, yeast, and dry goods so if the power stayed on we'd be eating for a month at least. It wouldn't be healthful but we could. In a power outage I guess we could use the propane stove and grill and then the fire pit but that's harder, which means more wasted on poor attempts. And if the power goes we have other worries like heat.

Pre covid we had a little basement pantry for Costco overflow and now we're remodeling the mudroom to include pantry space.

OMGoodness...YES!! So much okra, eggplant and chard. Note to self - you only need 1 Eggplant plant!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So PPs with long-term food storage -- what do you have?

I'm the PP above. We have a lot of sardines. Also beans and rice, some canned tomatoes, a box of ramen noodles from Costco, some cans of powdered milk, oatmeal and pancake mix. A lot more that's not going to sustain life by itself but will make life worth living, like olive oil and soy sauce.

New poster here and we could make it at least 10+ months. We live in the country and buy many things in bulk and when they are on sale. We also have 3 teen boys who have friends over alot so we feed more teens than most households. What we would run out of first and miss is cheese. Our longterm solution to that would be to impregnate our pet goats (via a neighbor's male goat) and then use the goat milk after the babies are weaned. The added challenge to that is having to feed more goats but we have plenty of fields for them. We have a natural spring on the property to should have water available. We have a couple of acres of woods so plenty of fuel for fires. We would probably start cooking over a fire for most food to save the propane for the generator and only power the fridge and stand alone freezer with that. We are well stocked right now because we just did a bi annual shopping trip for staples. I do weekly shopping for produce, dairy and meat.
Currently we have the following in the basement pantry:
30 lbs of all purpose flour
20 lbs of high gluten flour (for pizza dough)
2 lbs of dry yeast
20 lbs of sugar
40 lbs of rice
10 lbs of dried beans
30 lbs of pasta
50 boxes of kraft mac n cheese
30 cans of Spagehtti-Os
40 cans of various beans
5 jars of peanut butter
20 cans of corn
15 cans of green beans
8 cans of coconut milk
12 cans of evaporated milk
2 lbs of dry milk
a couple of lbs of jerky
50+ cans of tomatoes
5 unopened boxes of cereal
2 lbs of dry oats
2 lbs of corn meal
a case of goldfish crackers (we just went to the factory store)
a case of Peperaridge Farm cookies (factory store)
5 lbs of dried fruit (apricots, cherries, cranberries, prunes)


Jars of items I have canned:
15 pints of pickles
20 pints of pizza sauce
30 jars of jam/jelly (many for holiday gifts but in this challenge we would be eating them)
15 quarts of pasta sauce

[Anonymous]

Probably 2 full days.
Some veggies, packs of ready to eat tuna, 2 avocados. If I count the stuff in the freezer, we can really eat fully for 5 days. Day 1 would be frozen fish, day 2 would be frozen veg, day 3 would be frozen chicken tenders, the rest are just little things that can be added together to make a dinner.
Lately we don't buy alot of food because we are so close to the stores. We don't need to buy food to put in the freezer. That way, we don't eat alot.

[Anonymous]

Wow, now I feel like im slacking . Wed prob last... a week maybe... i hate storing food beyond expiration dates, we keep a very thin store of food items. Since I've worked in grocery in the past, I really don't trust many companies when it comes to packaging food... most have no clue how shaky things really are, and truly trust packagers way more than they should be trusted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, now I feel like im slacking . Wed prob last... a week maybe... i hate storing food beyond expiration dates, we keep a very thin store of food items. Since I've worked in grocery in the past, I really don't trust many companies when it comes to packaging food... most have no clue how shaky things really are, and truly trust packagers way more than they should be trusted.

Can you explain? What do you mean about the packagers?

[Anonymous]

We only buy groceries once a month, so comfortable until the end of the month. Probably a week or 2 longer if we really needed to, but it would be some odd dinners for sure.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a month, but we’d have no fruit or veggies or dairy after a week. So our diet would be meat and rice/pasta/oatmeal/cereal/etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So PPs with long-term food storage -- what do you have?

I'm the PP above. We have a lot of sardines. Also beans and rice, some canned tomatoes, a box of ramen noodles from Costco, some cans of powdered milk, oatmeal and pancake mix. A lot more that's not going to sustain life by itself but will make life worth living, like olive oil and soy sauce.

New poster here and we could make it at least 10+ months. We live in the country and buy many things in bulk and when they are on sale. We also have 3 teen boys who have friends over alot so we feed more teens than most households. What we would run out of first and miss is cheese. Our longterm solution to that would be to impregnate our pet goats (via a neighbor's male goat) and then use the goat milk after the babies are weaned. The added challenge to that is having to feed more goats but we have plenty of fields for them. We have a natural spring on the property to should have water available. We have a couple of acres of woods so plenty of fuel for fires. We would probably start cooking over a fire for most food to save the propane for the generator and only power the fridge and stand alone freezer with that. We are well stocked right now because we just did a bi annual shopping trip for staples. I do weekly shopping for produce, dairy and meat.
Currently we have the following in the basement pantry:
30 lbs of all purpose flour
20 lbs of high gluten flour (for pizza dough)
2 lbs of dry yeast
20 lbs of sugar
40 lbs of rice
10 lbs of dried beans
30 lbs of pasta
50 boxes of kraft mac n cheese
30 cans of Spagehtti-Os
40 cans of various beans
5 jars of peanut butter
20 cans of corn
15 cans of green beans
8 cans of coconut milk
12 cans of evaporated milk
2 lbs of dry milk
a couple of lbs of jerky
50+ cans of tomatoes
5 unopened boxes of cereal
2 lbs of dry oats
2 lbs of corn meal
a case of goldfish crackers (we just went to the factory store)
a case of Peperaridge Farm cookies (factory store)
5 lbs of dried fruit (apricots, cherries, cranberries, prunes)


Jars of items I have canned:
15 pints of pickles
20 pints of pizza sauce
30 jars of jam/jelly (many for holiday gifts but in this challenge we would be eating them)
15 quarts of pasta sauce

wow, this is impressive. RE Cheese -- can't you buy wheels of cheese? Don't they last for years?

[Anonymous]

1 adult/1 kid. 3 months in a pinch. We would be okay on fuel (rocket stove/big wooded park) but I worry about water.

[Anonymous]

I have 6 kids and we'd last maybe two weeks.