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?

A month. I always make sure I have plenty of dry goods such as cereal, rice, pasta and couscous. Always have frozen veg and quick dinners in too

We’d be grand for a week but meals would get progressively weirder after that. Mind you, I’d be v unhappy once I couldn’t have milk in my tea.

What is the name of the film please?

I’m currently very low on protein and we have
2 chicken breasts
5 eggs
some dry chickpeas
and 5 fish fingers.
We’d probably survive less than a month!

I’ve still got pasta and rice and lentils under the bed from covid so we’d be fine for a few years I reckon. 👍🏻

I reckon maybe 2-3 weeks, with lots of moaning from the children! If we had to really stretch it out we could probably manage 4 weeks.

Fresh food - a matter of days.
Tins and dried food like pasta, probably a couple of weeks.
Things like bread & milk - generally keep a loaf or 2 in the freezer, and a few pints in the fridge. Keep a couple of bags of flour in, a few packs of butter in the fridge, but they'd soon run out.

As long as we had power we could survive a while, but it would be tinned beans, rice/pasta, a few frozen meals, frozen veg, frozen chips...
How many of us will be doing a big shop in the morning now??

I reckon 2-3 weeks but my other half reckons a month easily

A few weeks i have tinned food and water stored in just in case.

Power and water will be the first to go usually.

Do you mean The Last House? I am watching, and getting infuriated by the family 😂

I reckon we could survive a month with what is in the house (we don't have a dog. Or a chimney 😉😅)

About a month. After a week it would be pulses, tinned tomato and rice. And pasta.

Best stock up on the Dulcolax.

A couple of months if I’m allowed to include the fruit and veg I’m growing in the garden. I have more tomatoes than I’ll be able to eat so would make batches
of pasta sauce. I’ve got potatoes, beetroot, apples and pears too. Our diet would probably get pretty monotonous but we could survive.

We'd be fucked then, as would almost everyone.
Got a few litres of bottled water stashed in the garage, but that's it.
Cold baked beans and tinned pulses/soup would last a little while, but the water would run out first.
I'm going to have to watch this movie now.

6 months at least. We're preppers 😆

A few weeks, we have a big freezer with lots of frozen chicken, batch cooking portions and frozen vegetables and we are quite well stocked with dried pasta, rice and noodles. I would miss fresh vegetables and fruit if I wasn't able to buy it.

Probably about a week to a week and a half of meals and up to a month to a month and a half of random cupboard bits depending on how much we ate 🤔 I don’t think I would actually cope with being stuck in the house for more than 3 days before I went crazy though as I absolutely hate being at home all day 🤷‍♀️😂

You would have to get inventive like they did in The Last House.
I could probably make food last about 2 months if only eating once a day.

If having electric and gas then probably months from freezer food! Also have outdoor gas bottle appliances so not a problem. DH has a 'in case of apocalypse' kit with aerospace vacuum packed meals, filter straws and water purifying tablets just in case.

About a week maybe. We don’t keep a lot in as DH likes going to the supermarket daily (gets him out) . We only have a very small amount of freezer space now and that’s not full.

I think with lockdown we knew it was approaching and so we were all able to stock up on whatever was still available. I can recall seeing the preppers threads on MN and going from being someone who thought ‘fuss about nothing’ to ‘right I’d better get some tins in then’! (PS I wasn’t clearing any of the shelves though)

I have considered the possibility of infrastructure going down due to hacking and that I ought to get a bit of a stock in but I’ve not done anything about it.

Not here. We have less in the house as it’s only me and DH and he likes to go out every day whereas a few years back I would do a big online delivery and we had a lot more freezer space (large freezer broke).

exactly - such an odd vibe!!!

@ColdWaterDipper 😣

@Tomasinabombadil Last House on Netflix

Quite a time. I keep stocked cupboards and two freezers. Just the two of us.. a few months.
‘The Martian’ kept himself alive for quite some time on a few potatoes…..