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.

Not long, i don’t really have much frozen food i shop weekly and buy fresh for the week so i could probably just about stretch to 2 weeks but there wouldn’t be any veg, fruit, meat second week would be living of plain pasta and soup haha 😂 xx

I reckon about a 2 months. I have a freezer full of curries, soup, chicken goujons, frozen veg etc. I could make more soup with the slightly wilted veg and there’s just me to feed so I’d do ok plus I generally only have lunch and dinner so it would last fairly well. I might be eating curry with pasta but it’s still a meal!

At the moment , 2 weeks maybe , but usually a lot more , running my freezer down ready for a ( raw ) dog food delivery 😂

tinned goods, cereal + long life milk are staples.

No point having a freezer or two packed with food, or dried/packaged food that needs to be cooked if the power is out for days on end.

My emergency supply is tinned salmon, tuna, baked beans, weetabix and uht milk. Probably enough for two weeks of a very boring diet.

Probably a fortnight of relatively nutritious meals, followed by another 10 days or so with basic food but very little veg.

We've got quite a bit of frozen veg, plus tins of tomatoes and sweetcorn. We'd struggle with fruit, I think we've got some tinned peaches plus some dried fruit, but not a lot.

I don't use milk but DH does in tea and cereal so he would struggle when that runs out.

Couple weeks at a push. I have pasta and rice and tins of soup, pasta sauce, chopped tomatoes, tuna, a few onions. My fresh veg would be gone in a couple days though, but I probably have three/four meals of frozen. Got some oats…
So not the most nutritious and it would get repetitive but I wouldn’t starve. I have pets though that would be a problem after three/four days.

We’d be eating some slightly odd meals, but a month. I’ve got tonnes of flour and yeast so we could live off toast and tinned fruit and frozen veg if we needed to. I’ve got six pints of milk and several longlife cartons.

1-2 months at least but I would need to find milk from somewhere!

Not very long because DH and DS eat so much!

About a month. I live on my own. I keep a decent amount of dried goods, lentils, rice etc in. Could do with stocking up on tins of tomatoes and beans. Would have to turn veggie as only have a tiny freezer and it only has a couple of salmon darnes, a serving of chicken soup and a packet of mince. I’d love a chest freezer and a pantry!

We'd eat well for a couple of weeks. We'd survive for a couple more.

Not long because we mostly eat fresh meat, don't have any frozen meat or ready meals in the freezer (we do sometimes have ready meals, but tend to buy and eat them the same day). There's some frozen veg, some tins in the cupboard and cup-a-soups and Complan which we could have with water if there was no milk. Plenty of rice, porridge and pasta but not much to have with it, other than pesto, however, we would not starve.

At least a month, possibly more.

I know the answer to this because we were due a big shop to be delivered on the week of the first Covid lockdown, which was cancelled on the day and we couldn't get almost any food for nearly two weeks.

We could probably have lasted another week but it would have been a lot of dry carbs and pulses like rice and lentils, with condiments.

I now keep UHT milk in the cupboard at all times as that was what we missed most!!

A good month or so. We have three freezers and a fridge freezer running a pantry full and the cupboards plus we have food growing.

I would be good for about a month. We have 2 big chest freezers in the garage. 1 full of meat 1 full of fruits, veggies, bread & other frozen foods. I can in the summer so my panty is full.

A week.

Reasonably nutritious - possibly looking at months. We have a huge bag of rice, large bag of pasta, and sizeable bags of various beans and lentils, as well as oats, barley, nuts (H buys in bulk from Grape Tree), couple of jars each of peanut butter, Marmite and tahini. Frozen peas and pickles (beetroot, cabbage, onions, cornichons, 2 sorts of olive) enough for a couple of weeks, pile of tomatoes and a large butternut squash waiting to go in the freezer, some jam and marmalade, about 10 litre cartons of orange juice and 6 of beetroot juice.

Edit - oh, and the raisins, apricots and prunes, couple of kg bags of each

I'm not sure what meat is in the freezer - don't think we've got the turkey yet. Possibly a couple of guinea fowl and a leg of lamb. Maybe even two. Tins of tuna, corned beef and mackerel, enough for about 12 meals for 2.

There's also a lot of wine and beer (H makes it from kit) which isn't entirely empty calories ;-)

On my own, a couple of months, so halve that with OH (although he wouldnt eat most of it and would starve)

I'd say a good month

I only eat one meal a day, and the store cupboard is rammed - I was just thinking I need to start eating some of it up. So I could probably go for a couple of months, but I tend to get peculiar dislikes of foods so there may be a degree of 'forcing myself', particularly once we started on the potato-based dishes.

Very similar to you actually; about a fortnight as we keep tins of tomatoes/beans and pulses/coconut milk etc, as well as quinoa/pasta/rice and other starches. We have lots of tinned fish and a few pieces of frozen chicken and fish. Think we have some frozen gyoza.
Also a few tubs of batch-cooked meals like curries and stews, with veg in, so they'd be quite good, but like you we'd run out of fresh fruit and veg fast and it'd be a bit dull and not the most nutritious.

A few days maybe. We make a list and buy for a week and hardly have anything other than herbs and spices and maybe some pasta in the store cupboard. We’d have cereal and condiments for a few days maybe!

We’ve got two freezers and a well stocked cupboard so probably a couple of weeks. It would get a bit boring though!

About a month. I have 2 stocked freezers, tins, couscous/lentils/pasta and UHT milk as well as powdered eggs and a lot of flour and sugar for baking. Butter might be tough but I have 3 in the fridge.

I keep stocked since Brexit as it became quite apparent we are one governmental fuck up away from people breaking into shops in panic.