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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So PPs with long-term food storage -- what do you have?[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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