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?

I don’t ‘assume things will go on as they always have’, Covid surely showed us all that? Doesn’t give me any more space in my house to store months worth of food though!
I have a garage with dry supplies in, but under the rules of the OP’s thread I wouldn’t be able to access it (I’d have to go into my garden to get to it) so I’m limited as to what I can physically store in my house.

Last house https://www.google.com/search?q=last+house&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB1191GB1192&oq=last+house+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7Mg0IARAuGIMBGLEDGIAEMg0IAhAuGIMBGLEDGIAEMgYIAxAAGAMyEAgEEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQYigUyBggFEEUYPDIGCAYQRRg8MgYIBxBFGDzSAQgyNTI2ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:704aaa4a,vid:MLxgaz2Zp1k,st:0

It is in English but felt dubbed in the way Netflix films sometimes do 😂

Depends if the catastrophe killed off the teens or I have to keep them alive as well. Just me, a good few weeks. My son, however, could empty the fridge in a day.

this is our issue - the food is in the ground outside, and we keep hens and sheep so we just don't do a big shop or keep a well stocked larder at this time of year. Now if it happened on 23rd Dec, then we would be fine for 3 months or more 😂😂

Forever.

I would ring up my local takeaways and get deliveries.

A month probably, but the last couple of weeks would be very boring. It also depends on whether I knew I wouldn't be able to get more food - as if I did I could ration things out and ensure that I wasn't just left with dried beans and oats towards the end!

I do have quite a large variety of dried powdered flavourings (tomato, onion, cheese, chicken bouillon etc) which would make things less boring.

They are also trapped inside, everyone is. You just have what is in your house.

Where do you store all this food? And why are you so judgemental about people who don't have huge stocks? I buy rice, noodles and pasta as I need it - so have one open bag of rice and a tub of pasta at all times, no space (or reason) to have extra bags stashed away somewhere else. If something usbrunning low I buy more. I use mostly fresh food anyway (fruit, veg, bread - do bake some of my own) , meat, fish, dairy, so these cannot be stockpiled. What's the benefit of having shelves and shelves of tinned food i won't use - tomatoes, coconut milk and mixed beans used regularly, but in combination with fresh produce. Again I can just buy one more each week with my shop once I've used one.

I watched The Last House on Netflix last night, it was actually decent wasn’t it.

Possibly 2 months as I am a bulk buyer though there would be some odd combinations towards the end and some weight loss. I can get by on small amounts of food if needed so if I ended up trapped alone I think I could eke it our for 6 months.

Yes, this is how we shop too. We meal plan, and buy what we need for the week’s worth of meals. I don’t really see the sense in having 8 tins of tomatoes in my cupboard, not least because we don’t have the space!
Most of what we eat is fresh and can’t be stockpiled anyway. We actually only have one cupboard in the kitchen for ‘dried’ foods such as pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, coconut milk etc. Then one cupboard entirely dedicated to herbs and spices!

Months. I have large chest freezer of meat. Another chest freezer with a lot of vegetables and fruit picked from the garden and also keep frozen bread and milk in there. I then have American fridge freezer in kitchen with stuff like frozen pizzas, chips, potato wedges, waffles, has browns and a few ready meals in there. I have flour, dried yeast and a bread maker I hardly use but can use if I need to. I have a lot of dried pasta and tinned foods. I rotate the tins. I also have a month's worth of cat and dog food but cats like chicken breasts and dogs love a roast dinner with meat, potato and chopped up carrots and swede with a drop of gravy. I've got enough loo rolls for at leSt 6 weeks and lots of wine. I suspect my adult DS who lives about 1/2 a mile from me and doesn't keep a lot of food in because he shops and cooks every other day would be over at mine in a flash.

With adult DC here maybe a week at a push but we’d be eating tinned beans w rice and homemade bread. Fresh food would go very quickly.
dh and I - double that I reckon.
it would be dire though.
also don’t forget loo roll, although you’d be bunged up without veg.
Cat would be ok - maybe a month for her??

Are the chickens free ranging? Could you entice them to live in your house?

Would you be allowed to dig a tunnel to the garage/shed and consider it an extension?

A while, but there would be some interesting combinations as my partner buys lots of random stuff from Lidl.

Right this very second? Not very long. A couple of days but it would mainly be pasta and cereal.

In an hour or so after our shopping delivery? I'd say a week as long as we were careful!

For me (I'm single) probably a couple of months. I live in a tiny cottage with no storage space so, although I have a fair few tins in, I don't have the space to store huge bags of rice or pasta or for a big freezer.

The dog, on the other hand, would be pretty thin and desperate after about a week and you've just reminded me that I need to go and get her some more tinned food in.

I have quite a lot in the freezer and store cupboard so a while but the meals wouldn't be particularly healthy or tasty !

I thought it was dubbed 🙈😂 I actually checked where it was meant to be set and was shocked it was in Seattle, I thought Germany or something!

If there was still water and electricity and gas, probably about a month or two. By the end of the first two- three weeks we would have to dispense with proper meals and start eating stuff that is a bit mad and by the end would be flat breads made from flour, oats and water.

Actually we probably could go a bit longer than that using Mr Monkey's awfully large stash of running gels and energy powders. We might not be too well though, those things are gross.

quite some t ime

Just 2 of us at home easily 3 months, I still cook as if I’ve got my 2 adult children at home so have loads of meals prepped in a chest freezer in the study. I buy larder items in bulk and have lots of storage in my kitchen.
However in the end we will still have 25 tins of anchovies I bought as soon as they came back in stock at Aldi’s, I so resented paying double the price for them at Dainsburys that I maybe went a bit overboard.

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No one could leave their house. Outside people were killed.

3 of us, probably a month but they’d be very weird meals.

Could survive at least a year with food for both people and pets. Don't have a year's supply of essential medication though.