How many weeks food?

pigpen

Maybe 4-5 days...

irenee

Great question!! - though it has to be said there is only me!!

But it has made me look at my stores - dried and freezer - as there is only me I probably have enough in my 13 cubic metre freezer + store cupboards to last until after Christmas

And frankly I should be clearing out all the 'older' foods to use things that have spent a long time in freeze hibernation

About a third of the freezer is fruit and veg from this year's growing season - BUT the rest is somewhat older

An excellent opportunity to save on the weekly housekeeping

lizzyb1812

There's only me - the pets are already sorted long term - so about 4 or 5 months given the £5 fruit & veg plus milk and bread. But that's because I've deliberately built up stores so I don't need to spend on food over winter and can spend on heat. Normally it's about 1-2 months worth.

Cheapskate

valk_scot wrote: »

There's a thread on one of the other forums running where someone only has £x to last her family till next payday, and when she lists what food she has in the house atm there's about four items. Which makes me wonder...how much food do most folk keep in stock? If someone delivered say your usual milk, bread and £5 or so worth of fresh veg and fruit to your door once a week how long could you last without shopping for any other food at all?

(To make it easy, lets not count loo rolls, booze, nappies and pet food etc, just human food.)

I reckon I could manage four weeks of food for the four of us, though there might be some "interesting" recipes at the end. How about you?

3 to 4 weeks at a wild guess, eating heartily, probably double that if eating more vegetarian stuff and using the things I've already started stocking up on. I've got a HUGE turkey in the freezer that would do us all (3 adults, 2 small children) for at least 4 meals, plus soup from the bones and leftovers. Like other posters, we'd be eating some odd combinations eventually, but at least we'd not go hungry!

We may actually have to do something like this, as we're more than a little short of cash until mid-November - could be a good exercise in using up frozen UFOs etc! :rotfl:

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Trazy

I reckon I would be OK for 4-6 weeks

tigerfeet2006

Funny thing is we've just had to do this I've been ill and bedbound for the last six weeks so haven't been able to get out, because of work constraints and car problems all DH has been able to do is grab stuff from the corner shop. I've just checked cupboards and freezer and fridge and I reckon I could get another two weeks, maybe three at a push meals sorted. That would be two adults and three children.

But as soon as I am out of bed I will start doing a restock as I get nervous having nothing to fall back on.

Kaz2904

Well because I had my veg box delivered yesterday and went to the butchers today, I reckon I could make it about 8 weeks. I've got loads and loads of flour in and the bottom drawer of my freezer is full of frozen fruit. We don't eat much meat really so I can make it stretch many meals. We got a mahoosive block of cheese which I've already frozen 2/3 of so DH can't go snacking!
DH picked all of the tomatoes from the garden and they are in the fridge now so he'll make soup with that. That will do us at least one meal.
It's a shame that the kids can't take anything hot with them to school because if they could, I'd spend much less on their lunches, they'd eat better and DS would actually eat much more. He hates sandwiches but given a tub of soup and some crusty bread would be happy as a pig in clover

ms_night_ryder

i think i wouls last 5-6 weeks, i am a single household and have 8-10 packs of wholewheat pasta and 3kg bag , loads of tinned toms, campbells batchelors pasta, custards, rice puddings toc, sweetcorn, rice etc, not much in the freezer, just 3 packs of mince, few tins of tuna, would be veggie after about 2 weeks.

DirtyDick

Dunno, coffee granules and saccharine if no deliveries, but got £25k in the current account so assume okay in the long run.

juno

I would say 2-4 weeks. We have a lot of pasta sauces, chopped tomatoes and wet type things, but not very much of the rice, pasta, carbohydrate based stuff to go with it.