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.

I reckon a couple of months easily - the sheer amount of rice alone in our house would keep us going for weeks 😂

Months - me, DS, does a manual job, probably a few hours!

Maybe a month of meals from freezer and pantry. I have an allotment and 3 hens though. So about 3 yrs basic egg and veg based meals. Potentially longer if I could source a cockerel!

A month probably but may be a bit longer.

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Months.
I've got dried beans, dried fruit, rice, pasta, barley, barley flour, gram flour, lentils, semolina, tapioca, self raising/plain/bread flours, sugar (white, brown, dark), tinned fish. Lots of all.

Frozen fruit- masses, from the allotment .Tinned fruit, tinned beans, tinned tomatoes, condensed milk, huge amount of jam/pickle/chutney/fruit syrup.

Oil, vinegar, ketchup, herbs, spices. Lots.

Eggs, cheese, fresh veg, a lot of home grown onions and squash.

Don't eat much meat but there is currently a few sausages and some chicken.

Apparently dried Weetabix is acceptable as a snack now. That might prolong things...by a few hours. <Sigh>

We don’t keep loads of food in freezer/pantry unless it is Christmas so maybe a week. We might run out of fruit/veg/milk and bread.

Months. Two freezers and cupboards are full. And several ways of cooking too, if everything goes down the pan.

A fair while, I have 1/2 a cow, 1/2 a pig, and numerous chickens in the freezer. We might get the meat sweats though!

4 months. I've got 2 chest freezers full. 1 full of meat/fish and the other frozen potato products like hash browns, frozen chips and potato waffles and bags of frozen vegetables and fruit desserts and vegetables frozen from my garden. I've also got a lot of cooking apples on trees in garden. I've got loads of tinned and dried food like giant bags of rice, pasta and flour because I'm a bit of a pepper.

If you could get food to feed the hens.

We could probably last a couple of months if we were allowed veg from the garden too. There's still lots growing.

Probably about 3-4 weeks. I have some meat, fish, veg and chips in the freezer. Lots of tins of tuna, kidney beans, tomatoes and chickpeas. Some bags of oats, granola, dried lentils, pasta, rice and noodles and lots of flour.

I’m going shopping tomorrow so not as long as usual. However, there’s shedloads of pasta, rice, noodles, dried chickpeas, lentils, flour, sugar, oats, some potatoes, onions and garlic and at least some tins in the cupboard (no tuna because we finished it tonight). Salmon, prawns, and small packets of chicken and mince in the freezer, plus some slightly random frozen veg and lots of frozen fruit. We’d have a lot of crumble. Also loads of frozen chicken stock, so I’d make lots of soup. Cheese, some ham, chorizo and some veg in the fridge, plus a million condiments including lots of pickles. Not much bread but I do have crackers, oatcakes and frozen flatbreads. 12 eggs. Some chocolate/biscuits but the kids would have hoovered those in approx 3 days. Nutella, honey, jam, marmalade, syrup, lemon curd. Cereal. We could definitely do a week relatively easily, then another slightly scrappy week, and then probably another week to 10 days although the shortage of milk and butter would be a problem. The cats would have killed us first though because there’s not much cat food left.

Humm , not sure but I have a full pantry so a few days , always have meat for at least a week but push comes shove we live rural , plenty of pheasants and quail in our garden , we also have over 20 chickens too so plenty of eggs and if needed meat .

Hens will eat anything , 3 hens could easily free range and get enough protein from insects

Yes free ranging hens will eat anything. Including frogs and mice. DH used our fierce Maran to dispatch big house spiders!

We just got a food shop delivered yesterday - I reckon we could last a good three weeks without needing to buy anything, though by the end of that we’d be eating a lot of random concoctions and probably not much fruit or veg.

We may even be able to stretch it out to a month as we have lots of frozen leftovers plus plenty of grains and dried pulses. Then a draw of frozen fish plus tinned fish. It would be hard without fruit though but we could ration it and then I guess we have dried fruit we could put in porridge etc (guess we’d be soon making that with water). We actually have a lot of fresh veg atm so I’d probably cook dishes with it and freeze it but try and use less per dish than normal. Then we have some frozen veg but not much (sweetcorn, peas, some Indian vegetables). We also have lots of nuts so that could give some more nutrients and also very filling. Maybe I’m overly optimistic with how long we could last, but we do have A LOT of food in the house. Loads of spices and seasoning to make it taste nice.

Got chickens so plenty eggs, probably 2/3 weeks worth of meals in cupboard/freezer. It’s probably a sensible idea to have an emergency supply though.

Hmmm... Probably as normal for a fortnight. Reasonable for another week, and then pretty badly for 2-3 weeks.
Our freezer is well-stocked at the moment, and I did a pretty big stock up on tins last weekend as it happens.