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

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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!

Maybe two weeks. Ten days of which would be porrige made with water once the milk ran out, pasta with either lentils (I have made lentil Bolognese before, it is nicer than it sounds) or just oil/salt/pepper.

How long could I feed us well? Less than a week. I’m due to shop so I have very little in the way of veg or salad.

How long could we survive? Months if I rationed it out - we’ve got lots of meat in the freezer, plenty of pasta and cereals, a few tins of beans and tomatoes.

About a month I reckon.

We'd be thin tho.

We'd manage a couple of weeks assuming that I can have fresh milk.

Not much looking forward to Day 14's rhubarb and lentil bake with mango chutney and water chestnuts though.

Fresh would run out in a week , could keep reasonable meals up maybe a second week? Then I have enough m&ms, chocolate liquorice bullets, Cherry ripe choc bars and tim tams to feed everyone enough calories for at least another week

Maybe 4 weeks,we have tons of chicken breasts from the butchers,lots of pork,lots of butchers sausages,some mince and beefburgers and a few ready meals all in the freezers and we have tons of canned food and pasta and rice,and lots of fresh food,cold meats,cheeses,butter,milk,eggs and bacon and salad bits and we always have tons of breakfast bits in(cereal,crumpets,bagels ect)a large sack of potatoes and 3 fruit bowls full.

Thanks to Dh's erratic shopping we have lots of store cupboard stuff - pasta, rice, tuna, baked beans, chickpeas, pasta sauce, tinned fruit, custard. We have a small freezer though so just peas, broccoli and about 3 or 4 meals worth of meat in there.

Very little bread in the house and no baking supplies in. I'd be miserable without bread but otherwise I'd say the 4 of us could survive several weeks on what's in the house.

About a month. Three adults here. Milk isn’t an issue as we only use soya and I have at least a months worth. (Buy it on special offer and bb date is 6 months.

Ages as long as you don’t need a very balanced diet! At least 2-3 weeks but would be extremely plain and would run out of vegetables and protein v quickly.

A week, maybe two.
I don’t stockpile, our cupboards are full but I am blinkered about making meals out of what I perceive to be nothing and dp (who does most of the shopping) will go out and get one single ingredient to make a dinner rather than go without which I would do if I could get away with it.
I don’t stockpile food, not a financial decision but because it seems like a gluttonous waste of space and (ie storing 10 tins of chickpeas, 10 of flageolet beans, 10 kidney etc, my cupboards would become cluttered and messy and everything would be permanently falling out. How annoying!).
We have a huge spice collection but we use them all on a regular basis so we do have vast amounts of stuff, I just don’t see the point in loading up on stuff that I’m not going to use in the immediate future as I go to the shops/get food delivered every week and I don’t believe in zombies!

About 6 months , although fresh would obviously run out way before that. I have several kilos of powdered milk, and 1000s of teabags, plenty of pasta, legumes, oats, cous cous, cereals (12-15 × 500-750g boxes plus 12 packs of individual boxes with 8 boxes per pack), noodles, dried potatoes, rice, herbs & spices, enough tinned goods to feed a platoon, plenty of different flours to make sourdough bread/cake, etc, enough sugar & homemade preserves, etc, to feed an army and 3 freezers full of meat, fish, veggies and cheeses, butter, etc.

I'm actually trying to use it all up so I can start stockpiling again, so l'd be up for the challenge of minimal shopping for food.

3 weeks but it would be very lentil based and quite miserable by then last few days....

I've also got around 100 bottles of alcohol (mostly wine, whisky and port), so we could always resort to drink in order to make the food seem more interesting towards the end!

Three months , we have a large freezer in kitchen and a chest freezer, also a pantry rather than cupboards.

Week at a stretch. Money is tight so we're regularly having bare cupboards except for flour and herbs/ spices and random old condiments. Small freezer as well so not much opportunity for stock piling.

A day and that's only because DH bought a stockpile of bagels this afternoon because he nipped to Tesco as we'd run out of sugar, and I have most of the stuff for tomorrow night's dinner in already which is a rare occurrence.

6 people here, 5 adult sized (2 teen boy bottomless pits) and I wouldn't have room to store enough food for a fortnight let alone a month. My brain is so frazzled I rarely plan ahead for tomorrow night's dinner let alone a weeks worth, so I shop daily mostly. Luckily we have a massive Tesco 3 mins walk away!

About 5-6 months for 8 people and 3 dogs.
I am a prepper though - have had troubled times in the past and this is a form of insurance for me.

About 6 weeks eating normally, then I’d run out of things like cheese and eggs and frozen fruit and veg.

About 6 months if things were rationed carefully and we ate a lot of extremely boring meals. Maybe 8-9 months if we went down to ‘survival’ rations.

I just don’t see the point in loading up on stuff that I’m not going to use in the immediate future as I go to the shops/get food delivered every week and I don’t believe in zombies!

Do the people who think like this genuinely never foresee a situation where it might be helpful to have an old fashioned pantry stocked with stuff? I suspect this thread is born out of the headlines about rising food prices and predicted shortages due to weather conditions and potentially also brexit. Do those who don't have anything put by simply think "it will never happen" (in which case I suggest you look in the direction of Venezuela) or do they think "I have enough money and good enough job security that I'll just pay the price whether its £1 a loaf or £5"?

onetimeposter. Lentils are ace. Puy lentils cooked in stock, ham and lentil soup, dahl....

@bpisok are you kidding - £220 is around 2 months food budget here. The food you listed, along with a lot of people on here seems very extensive to me. Yes, we always cook from scratch.

I've just finished another bulk buy session so, about a month or so but closer to two really.

Like another poster, past experiences of having no food or not enough to go around never leave you and it's something I never want to happen again.

About 5 days.

3 days at a push.

Eating normally as we do on a day to day basis - about a week.
Eating random cobbled together tin and packet based meals and stuff from the bottom of the freezer - I reckon three weeks or so.