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If you couldn’t do any food shopping from now...

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IsTheRainEverComingBack · 28/08/2018 18:55

How long could you last feeding your family on what’s already in your house? I’ve always been a bit of a food hoarder and eat a lot of staples (beans, lentils, rice, pasta) that are easy to store, but I’ve just looked round now and reckon I could probably feed us (just me and DP) adequately for a month definitely, maybe longer at a push, on just what I’ve currently got. How would you fair?

Might take myself up on my own challenge and see how long I can go without a food shop. If I can at least buy milk for my coffee as that’s the only thing I’m low on!

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headinhands · 28/08/2018 19:33

A few days. Kids are off so haven't really been planning meals ahead as I usually do, so do one big shop a week.

DH's worried about Brexit and has mentioned doing a few bulk buys of pasta, rice and so on.

headinhands · 28/08/2018 19:34

I've got tonnes of ingredients as such but no stocks of carbs as such.

PickAChew · 28/08/2018 19:34

Might make it to the weekend. I've been doing the periodic running down of the freezer and haven't done a big shop in over a week.

HildaZelda · 28/08/2018 19:46

About a weekend maybe. I don't hoard. MIL on the other hand could feed the entire street for a couple of months. Well, if they enjoy all the out of date food that she's hoarded.

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IsTheRainEverComingBack · 28/08/2018 19:46

@onetimeposter we do Smile bolognese, daal, curries, casseroles, soups. Versatile things.

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cloudtree · 28/08/2018 19:50

About three months. My store was very low but I’ve stocked up due to concerns about brexit and supply chain issues.

lucysmam · 28/08/2018 19:58

Not very long. Bit skint at the moment so have been mostly using up what I had in my freezers & topping up fresh every now and again. Probably 4/5 days at a guess, but it wouldn't be very exciting.

Having said that; I did bake, and freeze, muffins in preparation for the next school term today so they'd keep us going a while even though they wouldn't be a very healthy diet.

AtleastitsnotMonday · 28/08/2018 20:00

3 weeks but there would be some bizarre combinations after the first week!

TheresSomebodyAtTheDoooorrr · 28/08/2018 20:04

I'd say 3 weeks - though DH wouldn't eat 90% of it. Another batch cooker here.

I got snowed in for two weeks last year when I was heavily pregnant, DH was sent out way too many times to find food! Never want to be in that position again.

dustarr73 · 28/08/2018 20:05

About a week i would say.My fridge is empty but my freezer is full.I have bits i could throw together but they would be "interesting"

marvellousnightforamooncup · 28/08/2018 20:06

About two weeks.

irregularegular · 28/08/2018 20:07

Only a few days. Shopping always arrives on Thursdays, and I like to run things quite well down. No gain from hoarding.

Sitranced · 28/08/2018 20:08

DH would say half an hour, I recon about a fortnight. It would get a bit weird by the end of it but we would starve.

Sitranced · 28/08/2018 20:08

*wouldn't

irregularegular · 28/08/2018 20:09

onetimeposter

What an odd question. I cook with lentils a lot!

thatsmycustard · 28/08/2018 20:11

About a month. Have a freezer full of batch cooked meals, lots of dried beans, lentils, rice and pasta. Potatoes in the garden and eggs from the chickens. Not much fruit in though, we’d have to go scrumping for apples and forage elderberries.

TheClitterati · 28/08/2018 20:11

About 3 weeks. Life would be tough without milk though.

AdoraBell · 28/08/2018 20:12

Lots of people eat lentils.

TheMonkeyMummy · 28/08/2018 20:13

A week. But there are six of us

TeaAndBisquits · 28/08/2018 20:14

A week. We meal plan from week to week and the day the food shop gets delivered, we're almost on our bare bones.

We don't have the space or the money to massively stock pile apart from some things like beans, rice and tinned tomatoes etc.

mostdays · 28/08/2018 20:15

Not long! A week if we eked it out, probably. I really need to build up some stores, this is daft now I'm thinking about it.

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IsTheRainEverComingBack · 28/08/2018 20:20

@irregularegular plenty of gain if something suddenly happens and you’ve no money for a bit, or you know, zombie apocalypse...or Brexit

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irregularegular · 28/08/2018 20:23

IstheRain we have plenty of savings - takes up less space than baked beans.
And while being passionately anti-Brexit, I'm not worried about food supplies just yet.
Zombies on the other hand...

Maverick66 · 28/08/2018 20:28

I have recently stockpiled pasta sauce. It is on offer at £1 instead of usual £2.
Therefore provided everyone was happy with pasta/rice/lentil dishes I could feed 4 adults for two months. Always stockpile the staples when on offer tuna,beans etc.
Gave myself a bit of a talking to today as my store cupboard is full and I wonder if I just bought theses things when I actually need them would I spend as much?

JurassicGirl · 28/08/2018 20:29

onetimeposter we eat lentils quite often Hmm