Way too long. My husband is a hoarder.

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.

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

At least 30 boxes of pasta, 20lb bag of rice, 10 cans of each kind of bean, dried bags of beans and lentils, 80lbs of deer in the freezer, 1/4 cow in the freezer, 20 jars of pasta sauce. Not a prepper but we do like organic meat (hence the deer that we hunted and the cow we bought from a farm).

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Anonymous wrote: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.

A fire and cast iron skillet works in a pinch.

Those won’t help with the rotting food in the fridge and freezer.

You can salt cure or smoke meats to preserve them, think lots of beef jerky. You can also hunt and gather and supplement with staples on hand like rice and beans. I’d be eating lots of soup. You definitely need shelf stable food, not just depend on what’s in the fridge or freezer. After 3 days that is pretty much out. You might be able to make some fruit leather or something if you’re creative and have lots of frozen fruit. But it would have to be summer time for that to work in large quantities. You’d be eating like a caveman, lots of meat soup, gathered mushrooms, wild berries, and would have to grow a garden to get some nutrients before winter hit again and you’re back to soup. Potatoes can last into the winter if stored properly. Buy some chickens, cows, hunt wild Turkey or deer, etc. It definitely wouldn’t be what most of us are used to.

Anonymous wrote:Months. Maybe 6 months? We keep things like rice, pasta, canned beans/veggies/meat/soup, and peanut butter on hand longer term and also stay well stocked on baking supplies, dried beans, etc. A lot of things can be stored in the freezer to extend shelf life.

Same

Anonymous wrote:A week or two. My mom could keep going for the rest of her life. She's preparing for the rapture.

Is she an atheist? Because if not won’t all the true believers be gone after the rapture?

We could probably last a few weeks as long as we still had electricity and water. Without refrigeration, that would be down to a week. Without water, just a couple of days.

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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.

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.

Those are easy to freeze using sugar pack method.

3 months at least. I also have a 20lb bag of rice (we use it for sensory play) and that has to feed people for weeks I assume. We aren't preppers either.

With the dried beans, pasta and rice, probably four months.

A week or two. My mom could keep going for the rest of her life. She's preparing for the rapture.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

A fire and cast iron skillet works in a pinch.

Those won’t help with the rotting food in the fridge and freezer.

Months. Maybe 6 months? We keep things like rice, pasta, canned beans/veggies/meat/soup, and peanut butter on hand longer term and also stay well stocked on baking supplies, dried beans, etc. A lot of things can be stored in the freezer to extend shelf life.

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

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.