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If you couldn't go grocery shopping

35 replies

ivykaty44 · 15/08/2022 13:28

how long would you be able to make meals for with out buying more food?

I think I could last for 10 days - I haven't been shopping for 8 days as ive been away visiting relatives of the last week.

OP posts:
godmum56 · 15/08/2022 13:31

meals as in "normal" type meals around 2 weeks....but something to eat ie not starve around a month or longer I guess. I am very lucky.

Thoughtsarrivelikebutterflies5 · 15/08/2022 13:32

We'd have enough to cobble together meals for about 10 days but would need top ups for milk, fruit and certain snacks for eldest child (ASD)

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 15/08/2022 13:37

About 6 days. I don't tend to have loads of stuff in, as we've not got much cupboard/fridge space. I could make:
Greek salad and pitta
Sweetcorn fritters or courgette fritters
Pasta pesto with courgettes from the garden
A chilli
A chickpea curry
Oven chips, fish fingers or veggie burgers and peas
We're already out of bread though and only 2 eggs left, so I couldn't even do egg and chips!

Sprogonthetyne · 15/08/2022 13:41

Meals I would want to eat for about a week. Enough food not to starve for about a month, but it would be some pretty odd combinations.

slavetothekittens · 15/08/2022 13:44

We could cope for a couple of weeks I think. Would need to get food for the pets before that though.

Divebar2021 · 15/08/2022 13:49

i would say up to a month although probably not much variety in the last week.

mattressspring · 15/08/2022 13:50

I have food for tonight and that's it. I just buy a few days groceries at a time so I never have a surplus.

MissyCooperismyShero · 15/08/2022 13:50

6 months. We would be eating rice and pasta more or less with maybe occasion tin of something else, but we wouldn't be dead. Proper meals that you could serve to a non fussy guest, perhaps a month

PerfectRun · 15/08/2022 13:50

Ages before anyone starved, but the meals would get increasingly odd and there wouldn't be any fruit or veg once the frozen peas were used up.

Lyricallie · 15/08/2022 13:51

A good while but it wouldn't be very nutritious. A lot of pasta with jarred tomato sauce and lot of rice with various spices/herbs. I did a freezer audit recently so that we were actually using what's in it and weirdly a lot of prawns (that I kept buying reduced and throwing in the freezer). So lots of prawn tomato pasta lol.

mast0650 · 15/08/2022 13:54

Depends what day of the week it is. I always shop once a week. Just milkman inbetween. I tend to run fresh stuff well down at the end of most weeks (I take a certain strange pride in it) and don't keep a huge amount in the freezer either other than bread, ice cream and frozen peas. We could live on store cupboard stuff for a bit, but it wouldn't be great!

mast0650 · 15/08/2022 13:56

We have a little fruit and veg in the garden too I guess. But very small quantities. Apart from blackberries and potatoes. So we might have to live on those for a while.

wibblewobbleball · 15/08/2022 13:59

About a month, and we would eat really well, but I would obviously run out of milk and fresh fruit and veg quite quickly. I have 3 freezers though - a chest freezer with meat in, a two drawer freezer with bakery items and frozen veg in, and another two drawer freezer with frozen fruit and kids oven food like mini sausage rolls and fingers. I also have an extremely well stocked pantry with staples like pasta, rice, lentils, herbs, stocks, chopped tomatoes, tinned beans/pulses/veg, flour, oats, sugars and baking ingredients.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 15/08/2022 14:00

Bloody hell - how much pasta and rice do some of you have in? I've got enough pasta to maybe make two meals, but other than a pot of fresh pesto, nothing to make a sauce with.

CaptainCreepsBourgeMobile · 15/08/2022 14:05

About 2 months if we had to ration.

Inextremis · 15/08/2022 14:12

Probably about a month's worth of decent meals - we've got a freezer full of meat, and a garden full of homegrown veg, plus pasta, rice, beans and other legumes, etc. in the cupboards. Much cheese in the fridge. Tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, passata, tinned beans, tuna, salmon, okra and some fruit. After that we'd manage perhaps another couple of weeks of 'unusual' meals - and then we could console ourselves by drinking the husband's collection of whiskies, and my collection of wines. I think the last thing to go before we did would be the 80% proof absinthe!

Yes, I know we're lucky.

doilookremotelyinterested · 15/08/2022 14:15

Probably months. It's amazing what I keep discovering stashed in the veg drawers of the freezer! And despite all my good intentions I keep buying more fresh food and not eating what I've already got.

doilookremotelyinterested · 15/08/2022 14:16

To be fair I don't really make proper meals - that would cut it down. I'm very random in my eating....

PeekAtYou · 15/08/2022 14:16

About a week but it wouldn't be very nutritious on many days.

CandyCaneLane0 · 15/08/2022 14:18

I have dinner in for tonight and a loaf of bread so we could survive on toast for a few days

Caspianberg · 15/08/2022 14:19

About 2 weeks regular meals. 2 extra weeks hodge podge
Also depends on time of year. Right now it peak garden crop time, I could easily make salads, get fresh veg and enough fruit between June-October to supply us.

AtleastitsnotMonday · 15/08/2022 14:19

I think it would be about a week to 10 days before anyone but me noticed but that would be using frozen veg or tinned sweetcorn for the last 3 or 4 days which would then clear me out of veg completely. I would notice before that because I eat salads most days and would be lacking in salad ingredients by the end of the first week. After 10 days we would still have food but would be vegless and protein sources will be town to beans and chickpeas. I don't keep an awful lot of frozen meat and or fish, maybe only a few chicken breasts and odd fillets of fish. And the only tinned fish I tend to have is tuna and no tinned meat products only. I usually have eggs in but they would be gone in 10 days and I would probably have very little cheese. I would however have about a million herbs and spices however and various odds and ends of pasta, rice, cous cous, noodles etc.

Mindymomo · 15/08/2022 14:24

I would do very well for quite a while. I’ve got about 50 fish fingers, scampi, sausages, mince, chips, bread, ice cream and veg in freezer. Lots of pasta, rice, tinned soup, fruit and a full fridge at the moment! But according to my 2 adult sons, there’s nothing to eat in the house.

SirenSays · 15/08/2022 14:33

Maybe 10 days of regular meals and then things would get a bit boring. I have enough rice and noodles to last for ages.

Divebar2021 · 15/08/2022 14:43

Bloody hell - how much pasta and rice do some of you have in?

I probably have 3 or 4 different types of pasta plus non Italian noodles, rice ( brown and risotto) cous cous and some random grain in a box. I also have half a dozen types of flour at least including 00 pasta flour ( although I’ve never actually made my own pasta). I’ve got ingredients for bread, cakes, biscuits etc. I also have tins of lentils and beans and tomatoes etc. As we have Apple and a plum tree I have those fruits frozen plus some frozen berries. A load of homemade tomato sauces frozen from my one year growing my own produce in lockdown. A massive turkey bought after Xmas which would make at least 8584747 meals as we know. We just need a prepper to come along and impress us with their stash.