How many weeks food?

taxsaver

If we are continuing to get £5pw fruit and veg as well as milk and bread, then really we're only talking meats and other items like pasta and rice that we are needing to draw from stores. So we could probably manage for over a year if we accepted that we'd run out of pasta, rice and cheese at some point....... but then we do have 21 chickens, four pigs and four lambs to help us through!

tessie_bear

for us as a family of 4 we probably have a months worth of meals....but the veg would become frozen before the month was out....we have a large freezer full of costco meat.....a sack of pots....a cupboard full of tinned food/pasta/rice...i have a cupboard full of cake making ingredients

i also have bargains in the garage...pasta from when it was 9p....17p lidl tom soup....pasta sauce galore from when it was 17p....custard from costco....

i would struggle with the fruit for packups after a week but i suppose they could have raisins

hth

ps we also have masses of washing powder and 72 loo rolls stacked up....we are very into stock piling

Petlamb

We could probably eat strange-but-edible meals for a month, but that is truly a wild guess. Just working off what's in the cupboards, freezer etc.

Maybe less actually, we have eaten a fair bit of the freezer contents recently.

adelight

1-2 months maybe for me and oh?
i have 4-5kg of dried beans, 2kg rice, 20 tins of tuna, 6kg flour, 20+ tins toms/chick peas/beans/peas, ~2kg nuts, ~2kg dried fruit, about a dozen meals worth of spiced couscous type things, plenty of oils/spreads/jams. Oooh and loads of choc puddings, xmas puds, brandy sauce and custard powder! Just loads really!
Though thinking about it I don't feel like I have quite enough! I should stock up on oats.

Pitlanepiglet

4 to 5 Weeks for us, potentially longer depending on when I last shopped and there are 3 adults. It would also include frozen veg, bread as there is a cupboard full of flour and soya milk as we make our own from beans . We'd need milk for Dad but there is some emergency long life in the cupboard.

I have always lived in fear if not being able to provide for my family so have always kept food in. We now live rurally and do a online shop every 4 to 5 weeks and I like to keep enough in hand so that if something isn't delivered I have to worry about going somewhere else.

SailorSam

Must be at least 8/10 weeks, i don't even need a lot of apples or veg 'cos grew them myself this year and got boxes full; bread well do my own and got plenty of flour; so it's only milk i need to go out for. Perhaps only enough cereal for 2/3 wks.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

2 days of meat based meals (1 whole tiny chicken)

4 tins tuna.

1 fresh tuna meal.

1 fishfinger meal.

1 tin crab.

5 prawn based meals.

3 smoked salmon (or one if Minion - DD - gets there first) meals.

2 tins baked beans.

3 tins of sweetcorn.

4 tins basics soup.

4 meal's worth of potatoes.

8 onions.

5 carrots.

4oz cheddar.

1 pack cream cheese. Will do 4 meals unless Minion gets hold of the smoked salmon. Then it will be gone.

3 loaves of bread/flatbreads' worth of flour.

Half dozen eggs.

3/4 of a loaf of poppyseed ryebread.

Butter.

Mayonnaise.

1 cucumber.

Half a bag of pasta.

Half a sack of rice.

4 tins of tomatoes and some tomato puree.

Small jar coffee.

80 teabags.

2 pts milk.

And a load of spices.


Quite well stocked for us. But I am just round the corner from everything.

doodoot

I reckon we have about 3-4 weeks worth - me, OH and 2 sons.

Considering how bad our finances are right now, it looks like we won't have any cash to spend on anything - including food - come the middle of November.

I've been running down the cupboards and freezers for the past 4 weeks, and only spending approx £45 p.w on grocery shopping.

HariboJunkie

About a week and a half if the family insisted on proper meals. About a month and a half if they were happy to live on tuna, dog food, porridge, ovaltine, loo rolls and tinned tomatoes and the two naan breads which have welded themselves to the freezer wall . Have our own hens so we could have could have fried eggs with every meal and chicken if we were REALLY desperate. :whistle::D (that's a joke btw).

poppy-glos

20 proper portioned meals in the freezer, four tins of tuna, 30 eggs, 5 kg flour. masses rice and pasta. 4 bottles of hotdog sausages. 12 x baked beans, 10 x spaghetti in tom sauce. Gotta be about a month or two even if at the end the meals were a bit unconventional...