How many weeks food?

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

pigpen wrote: »

Maybe 4-5 days...

Yes, but you do have to feed a battalion of offspring...what you keep in your cupboards and freezer would probably feed the rest of us until mid March 2020.

Ruby_Scarlett

Not much at all. My main problem is space. I still live in shared (student) accommodation (not by choice I can guarantee that) so I only have one tiny cupboard in the kitchen, half a freezer compartment and a shelf in the fridge. If it were up to me I'd buy loads when on offer, batch cook & freeze constantly but I can't, obviously.

That being said I dedicated an entire shelf in my room cupboard to tinned and dry food.

Right now the only meat I have is diced venison in freezer, I also have a piece of cod there and frozen broccoli. I have next to nothing in the fridge. Cupboards I have a very good selection of spices, tuna chunks, tomato, loads of rice and dried pasta in all sorts of shapes, loads of beans and lentils, breakfast is sorted with porridge, I also have fruit juice with no added sugar for when I don't have fresh fruit around.

Not sure, maybe two weeks? I'm on my own.

rachbc

About 8-10 weeks might be some interesting combos at the end but we wouldn't go hungry

sharloid

The kitchen cupboards are full, we have a walk in and pantry and we use the spare box bedroom as a food store room... I'd say a good couple of months. Perhaps 5 or so. I'm not saying the meals would be the tastiest though!

VfM4meplse

By my calculation...running down the freezer alone would take a good month. My storecupboard is full of grains, lentils and spices so add that in and I could survive for another 5 months at least.

But I may well have scurvy by then!

BigBlackcat

I reckon about 2 weeks..

I'm so impressed with those who could go longer though. That is what I aspire to..

greenbee

Months... Although I'd have to be vegan towards the end - however I have lots of pulses and grains, a small amount of frozen meat (I don't eat much), lots of frozen fruit and juice. I also have long-life fruit and veg juice to help avoid scurvy and long life milk/rice milk plus a yogurt maker. So even without access to milk and veg I'd probably manage for a bit if I planned carefully.

rising_from_the_ashes

Great thread!:D

I'm a bit of a stockpile freak:o. I stock up when things are on offer (and usually go a bit OTT) so can sometimes then go a year without having to buy something.

In my "everday" stores, I reckon I could probably last 4 - 5 weeks although there may be some odd meals in there.

I'm the opposite of juno in that I've loads of rice & pasta but not a lot to go with them - mmmmm better add more sauces to the online order I've been struggling to do since 8am.

However, I've also got a winter store which has enough to do breakfasts, lunches & dinners for a month - these are quite basic (packet savory rice & pasta, porridge, soups, pasta & sauces etc) as it's been done on a "worst case scenario" that I'd only have the camping stove to use.:)

Pets stuff - got really good deals on both the cats' & dog's dry foods online recently by buying in bulk, so the dog is now set for 10 weeks (+ a sack put away for winter emergencies which would do another 5 weeks) and the cats for around 6 months.

VfM4meplse

greenbee wrote: »

Months... Although I'd have to be vegan towards the end

No hardship!

ALIBOBSY

We having been living alot from stores this last month (mid sept-mid oct) as OH finished weekly paid contracts and got a full time permanent job (hurrah), so we had to wait almost 5 wks for some pay. We had to manage just on the tax credits and one months child benefit (plus a bit of savings-had a series of big costs car washer etc that cleared us out just prior to this) and OH had to cover petrol for a 45 min commute each way.
If you had asked in Jan after stcking up with all the offers running up to christmas I would have said maybe 5-6 months, Begining of Sept I would have said 2 months ish. Now I have run things down so probably a month, unless we just lived off lots of eggy based meals as we have chickens in which case 2-3 months again-but I reckon a lack of meat and never ending eggs every night would result in the kids revolting very quickly lol.

In a way running down the freezers by necessity has done me a favour as I try to clear the freezers a bit before christmas and defrost them. Ready for all those run up to christmas offers-last year the supermarkets did loads of offers.

Ali x