If you ran out of cash or there was no food in shops

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How many days of meals could you last with just food currently your house? I'm thinking reasonably decent nutritious meals- not just carbs- and no one goes hungry.

I reckon about a fortnight as we have loads of tins of beans for protein and spices and stuff but we might struggle with running out of fruit and veg.

My chest freezer is chocka full of chicken, fish and veg as losing weight via protein, veg, salads... It's things like tins that I do need to stock up on. I always thought I had a pantry full of tomatoes, beans, kidney beans... Spaghetti, I had about 5 packets at 1 point. Nope all gone! Dry chicken and veg soon gets dull!

I'd be good for a month though. Not sure what anyone else is eating 😂

A few days because of milk. If milk was supplied we could survive a couple of weeks for sure

Could probably eat well for a week, okay for another week, and survive miserably for another two - or three, if we were talking in real extremis/ serious rations.

it would be basically cupboard carbs by that point though.

We shop in Costco and restocked the freezer recently so great for protein. Minimal frozen veg though and only enough fresh for a few days.

Got about a week of cheese. And bread in various forms.

Probably a week of main meals in the form of frozen ready meals as long as no one is picky.

Nothing much in the cupboards other than spices and flour.

So basically fine for food but buggered if no way to cook it.

A good few months. Got a pantry full of ingredients, a freezer full of harvested veg, and a garden with loads still growing. Might have to turn veggie but I could live with that.

Not long.
Two salmon steaks
Joint of pork
Bit of veg and salad
500g cod
15 eggs
3 litres of milk
2 fish in batter
2 tins toms
2 tins beans
500g rice
Cous cous
Risotto rice
Spaghetti
Penne
Packet bacon

If I had cheese it would be better

Been ill so got through a week's worth of food already. Got a teenage boy so not long.

DD and I could last a couple of months. Ds a couple of days.

My freezer is full and cupboards are full too.

Enough for basic survival for a couple of months I think, between freezer and tins, but I suppose a lot of our cupboard stuff for baking etc would depend on things like butter and eggs, which would run out within a week or two, so it would be weird probably unappetising meals eventually, but we’d not starve. We bulk buy oat milk so at the right time of the month have crates of that.

A few months

A few days at the most but I am doing a big shop on Friday so after then probably 3 weeks.

A month, as long as people were happy to live on some variation of rice, lentils and tomatoes. Pudding- a big bowl of jam.

Possibly 4 days at most. I'd go to a friend for dinner.

Oh I forgot freezer food. About a week in there i reckon.

Freezer is pretty full, so I think we could manage for a month, if not a little longer.

We have a packed larder and two full height freezers all full up too
plus a full height fridge

We’d probably go a couple of months
( possibly more as based on Covid we didn’t shop for the first 3 months after lockdown )
we have lots of lentils, beans frozen fruit and veg etc etc
and flour for bread and long life milk

We’d run out of eggs though
are we allowed to buy some chickens for eggs in your scenario OP 😁

Oh our toilet roll stash is very healthy also 🤣

I reckon 5 days of normal meals, 5 days of pasta/rice with sauce, and then things would start getting weird.

Few days of decent meals, max. Bit longer if we went the rice and pasta route. It's a busy time of year for us both at work, so we're getting a Gusto box and eating out/takeaway a lot at the moment, haven't done a proper shop since late August 😫

Probably at least a month maybe 2, I've freezer full and loads of dried stuff & tins as I keep forgetting those exist when hidden in the cupboards and buy more. I've also got a load of dry diet meal replacement packs left that i'd benefit from restarting.
I bulk order long life plant milk cartons when on offer, so as long as it wasn't when I was running low would be fine, thankfully it's not gross like UHT milk. I'd not cope with out tea

Meat - a long time as we produce most of our own. Veg - almost at the end of the growing season now. We have 4 chest freezers though. So probably longer than most except serious preppers.

A couple of months probably - but it might get weird in the second month. I have a fair bit in the freezer and a fully stocked pantry and a well stocked fridge. I'd miss the milk in my coffee after the third week though. DH would run out of tea very fast unless he rationed himself.

Yup, pretty much this!

I'm v impressed you can do an inventory!

2 days. But we have been running down the stocks as we're about to move house and we only have 1 jute shopping bag of a few cupboard items to take with us. Takeaways all round for the last supper.

We'd be fucked.

I live next to a large supermarket and tend to go most days (which is inefficient as well as expensive!) but it means we have very little waste.

We do an online shop every few weeks for heavy goods but as we don't have endless space we aren't even that well stocked in that aspect.

Currently trying to eat down the freezer as well ready for a big meat shop in November.

We have a few days worth of decent meals at present.