If you could not leave your house, even to get to the garden, how would the food you have last?

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Prompted by watching a film where this happened.
We'd only last 3-5 days as we don't keep much in, at all, how about you?

No, you can't leave the house. This is my issue. Hens, greenhouse outside and the freezer is in the barn 😱

@DallasMajor it's not great but it's an interesting idea and got us all talking for ages, unlike most of the formulaic stories you see that are far better acted 😂

Easily a couple of weeks. I have a huge freezer and one side is full of batch cooked meals for one.

Dd and I watched this film last night 🙈😂 we decided we could probably survive 2 months if we were careful.

Water might be an issue for us, but food ! Do people only have a few days to maybe a month in stock !

we could easily go 5-6 months, if my eldest came home with his children. Just the 3 of us a lot lot longer.

ive always kept a good store cupboard and have taught my children the same. Covid was an eye opener, all par my middle son /dil and his 3 came home for the lock down, that meant 10 of us living here. We have since moved to a smaller house, but the family are in agreement that in the case of another lock down scenario they would all move back. It would be tight but doable. Thinking about it, is they all had time to pack and bring their food we would last a lot longer 😳

but honestly I’m shocked at how little people seem to have in store as a day to day thing

I have enough for probably 2 weeks. COVID taught me that while I am definitely not a prepper, I am definitely on the side of more rather than less.

Not sure about the food but we could be drunk for months😀🍷

Could probably stretch out to two months, two fridges and freezers quite stocked. I'd miss milk though.

Yes, we only have about a week’s worth in stock. There are 5 of us, and we don’t have unlimited space in the house.
We have never needed to have more than that in stock. It has literally never caused us an issue.

Months,my oldest DD said she'd get to me during Armageddon
.we grow a lot of our own fruit and veg,so there's plenty,2 freezers. Big cupboards with tinned and dried goods..tuna, sardines, pulses, long life milk.flour,pasta..herbs, spices,
.also got a pull out larder cupboard in the kitchen .

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I also watched this film, probably about a month, it would be longer if we could use the garage freezer. Plenty of grey squirrels in the garden though...

Similar situation here. We’d last a bit longer, maybe about a couple of weeks, but youngest has OCD and only eats a tiny selection of food. He would starve before he would cave and eat ‘our’ food. And he doesn’t have a scrap of fat to keep him going.

About 3 months
Not for everything eg milk. Have some long life but not much.
But could survive assuming mains water.

For a lot of people it would depend whether you are able to access the garage or not.

In the film they still had water in the taps for ages.

If we were careful I’d say we could do a month+. We have a panty with lots of dried pulses, beans and grains so could live on that + a week on tins and cereal + another maybe 2-3 weeks on the freezer food. Make it me solo without DH and I could do 2 months

We get water from a spring and a well so in the film situation we'd have water no problem, and we seem to get given loads of spirits we open, have once and then put in a cupboard so we too would be like pirates, drunk for months.

Assuming mains water and cooking facilities about 4-6 weeks, but it would be plain rice/ pasta/ noodles by the end.

I do have some bottled water in, would probably do us a week max if that was all we had.

Two weeks as long as the tap water was still ok. We could last far longer if I was allowed to the garage.... probably a month at least but I'd have to leave the house to do so!

I have a chest freezer packed full of meat. I’d be fine for ages

It’s ok. I kept thinking of Wallace and gromit though with all the contraption making 😂

I'm excellent at rationing food. I know how to stretch food.

Water. Will the tap water still dispense clean water to drink from?

How about medication? If we run out can the pharmacy deliver some? Can I pick some medication up from places I normally store them?

Will Internet and electricity work? How would I keep the kids entertained?

Do I still go to work? I have my work locker filled with hypoglycemia treatment aka energy drinks, sweets and biscuits.

Or would this world take away all my autoimmune illness? So I return to teenage me?

With a few exceptions
I think this largely correlates with age.
I bet the over 60s could last longer. On average.
Younger people tend to live more short term and assume things will go on as they always have.

Six weeks ish, I've got flour, sugar, oil, dried things in bulk. Lots of tins. An enormous amount of jam and pickle etc because I grow fruit and veg.

What is the film?

no internet, no work, no pharmacy, no medicine. You are stuck in your house, no getting out.
The film is a covid reflective with added silliness, they grew veg by taking up the floorbaords.