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?

But what about loo roll? (bit obsessed after covid/reading themandibles)

Our stores are in the garage so we would be 'so near and yet so far'.

In house supplies - 2 weeks actual food/meals 3 weeks licking out jam jars etc.

I'm going to have to watch this film now. I think their survival time seems utterly unrealistic.

About 3 months. Assuming the power and water doesn't go off.

I'm a prepper so COVID wasn't a struggle in that regard. Although you would have thought we were to blame for panic buying the way people went on on here.

I neither prepped nor panic bought. Just carried on buying the things we needed each week.

That looked like fun.

If it happened today, only about a month. I'm in the process of working my way through all my batch cooked meals to clear all the stock and start afresh. When not on an empty the freezer mission, I bet I could easily do 2 months. The biggest problem would be breakfasts and fresh fruit. But I could survive.

I like Bold Beans jars and Mutti chopped tomatoes, which are much cheaper to buy in bulk. I got 24 tins of Mutti for about £16 on Amazon. I go to the Asian shop and buy 5kg of Tilda brown basmati rice for a very reasonable price. So although I am not a prepper, I just shop sensibly to make my money stretch further and be able to buy quality products. I think there are probably about 12 jars of beans in the pantry at the moment. A 2kg bag of lentils etc etc.

This seems such a contrast to people who only seem to have a few days of food in. I understand not having fresh food, but don't you few days of food people have grains, pulses, pasta, tins and jars?

You do know that lots of people live in small houses and flats? And that those of us in that situation managed absolutely fine during Covid? There were some weird shortages - like one supermarket being almost out of dried pasta at one point, but not being able to have your favourite meal for a couple of weeks is hardly life threatening.

Zombie apocalypse aside, there tends to be a correlation between 'living in a small flat' and 'able to get to shops easily'. So if I'm cooking at 7 o'clock in the evening and realise I don't have a vital ingredient, I can nip to the shops 5 minutes walk away in one direction or 10 minutes away in the other direction and get it. It's cheaper to stock up on slightly larger quantities in advance where we can, but obviously we don't have any space to store things like sacks of rice, and we can't tuck a chest freezer under our bed.

In the situation that there was some kind of massive societal breakdown or uncontrollable pandemic, the real-life equivalent of a zombie apocalypse, those of you in rural areas might be able to hold out for three-six months with your ample food stores, but we'd all be buggered in the end! So I'm not going to fret too much about filling up our wardrobes with tins of food.

A week, maybe 2 at a push, living off tins, rice and pasta. We need to do a big shop at the moment.
Buying only what we need is tricky to manage and I used to stock up on food but I am not holding as much food as I used to.
I like value for money and used to buy in bulk for better value but I am trying to keep a tighter stock margin.

Fresh food would last another 5 days as I only shop once a week. However, I have enough food in the freezer and cupboards that I could probably do about a month or so on.

Was this The Last House. I had similar thought. Not v long!!

Me less than a week the cat has more food so she'd last longer 😂

At least a month. But towards the end it would be dubious tins of mushy peas that DH buys but no-one except him eats, and novelty pasta bought as holiday gifts by friends.

I have a small open plan bungalow. Porch and into living room, kitchen at the end is about 8 ft square, door to conservatory,3 base cupboards, one wall cupboard,pull out larder, next to fridge freezer..loo rolls, kitchen paper live in spare room wardrobe. I have a 1960s Kitchen Maid cupboard and small cupboard in the conservatory,where all the dry goods,tins, washing powder, cleaning stuff,animal food is kept

The Last House? Good it was an awful film.

@gamerchick @YoQuieroVino as someone who also 'neither prepped nor panic bought' I remember most things being reasonably readily available in the shops during early days Covid (in London) and we got Ocado deliveries.
Stressful things were:
The guilt tripping to not go to the shops too often, and having to plan everything in advance, not (as usual) planning for a few days and being able to be flexible and pop out to pick things up when I thought of them.
All the family being in all the time and sticking to the same bloody boring rotation of 'meals that everyone likes'
Not stressful but mildly annoying - having to buy yeast off Amazon because everyone else got into making their own bread.

So lockdown wasn't great for other reasons, but prepping wouldn't have made it any better!

A couple of weeks but wouldn’t necessarily be up to my usual standard

Can I leave the house to go out to the freezer in the garage ?
If so, probably about a month . Kitchen cupboards and fridge freezer , 10-12 days with a lot of pasta

It was fine 🤷🏻‍♀️. The only thing we couldn’t get was pasta, so we just didn’t eat pasta for a couple of weeks.

“ The last house “ , actually watched it last night 😂 , thought it was a good watch 😊.
4 days tops , we’d be goners 😂.

Well actually with pasta & rice , tinned food in press , suppose longer alright but everything would definitely be gone in 2 weeks 🤷🏻‍♀️

We are ok with loo roll, get it from Amazon in bulk and store it up the side of wardrobe in the box room where there is about a foot gap

Poorly, I live with a bunch of locusts teen / tween boys!

I reckon on my own I could survive 2 or 3 weeks on the food in the cupboards, fridge and freezers. But taking the locusts into account maybe only 2 or 3 days. Unless we ate the dog….

Right now about a week of eating well, then a couple of weeks of eating very basic food. It would normally be longer to be able to eat well but I'm running the fridge and freezer down before we go on holiday. I have lots of flour, spices, grains, pasta, tinned tomatoes, pulses etc so could manage for a while on those.

I have 2 older active teenagers with me so currently 2 or 3 days. Cat and silkies much longer. But cat and teenagers might binge eat if they knew about this.

Probably 2 months.

May not be the healthiest ever but I would say a month that would include jam sandwiches and skinny unicorn spread on rice cakes! I always bulk by my rice milk and my muesli that alone would maybe last a month