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

[faithfultoGeorgeMichael]

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?

@Legomum789 you can't leave the house so the garden is off limits. If you have seeds you could grow them in the house!

@faithfultoGeorgeMichael thanks for the thread I enjoyed the film even though I spent most of it shouting at them

i need to stockpile dried cat food after that, they’d eat me if I ran out of food

I’ve a 30s semi so have got a void and soil under my house, I just need some veg to start with

im still not sure what has happened

I remember having this exact conversation with a friend about 3 weeks before we went into lockdown in 2020, which always reminds me how quickly and out of the blue that seemed to happen! Because we had no concept whatsoever when we talked about it that such a situation was about to happen.

Anyway the reason we were talking about it was I tended to buy in bulk so reckoned I would do ok for a good while.
Hilariously (now... not at the time) we were supposed to go away the week before lockdown was declared so I had been using up everything in our fridge and freezer. Of course the trip got cancelled and I went to Tesco to restock and the shelves were bare!
After smugly thinking I'd do ok if I couldn't leave my house, we found ourselves with hardly any food in!

I've kept an emergency box of longlife food in our garage ever since.

A few months. I have various grains, beans and pulses that I buy in bulk, probably about 16 litres of dairy free milk, flour for bread, homemade bread in the freezer, a couple of bottles of olive oil, all kinds of jars and tins of stuff, frozen fruit and veg. We'd probably eat a lot of lentil soup and bean stew.

The Last House? Just finished watching it. A few weeks worth but after watching that film I’m going shopping tomorrow! 😂😂

Probably a month, maybe 2? Garden would extend that by quite a lot.

You've watched 'the last house' haven't you? Bloody ridiculous film. You can't grow tomatoes in your living room with no sunlight, and as for catching honey badgers and dragging them down the chimney....
But, anyway, we could survive for a few weeks, but it would become boring.

I wouldn't be surprised if I were still working my way through it on my deathbed

Up month I reckon. It would be samey, but I have pasta and rice and pasta sauces and canned stuff like tuna. But it’s just me in the house - with two or more two weeks max.

Another chicken owner here and there’s two of us, so if one was incapacitated the other would collect the eggs..

but without leaving our (rural) property, quite a period of time. I bulk stock flours, salt, oats, sugar, vinegars and a seasonal orchard.

mental health would be more of a concern. Although it’s nice to avoid going into town, it’s nice to get out. Even just to grocery shop.

if you were stuck inside, depending on your roofing material such as tiles you can kick them out (and people can move them to break in). If you have fibro gable ends, again you can kick a hole.

my ex is a builder and left his toolbox on site. Went back next day and asked the owner if he had seen it, fellow claimed he had not. Several years forward x worked on the adjacent property and saw his toolbox through the garage window, no one home so over he went and got in through the tiled garage roof. Got his toolbox back and climbed back out. The property owner wouldn’t have any idea someone had been inside if it wasn’t for the missing box..

anyhow that’s probably TMI for the post.. sorry

Just watched it. What a rubbish film.

No reference at all to what they did for toilet roll or toothpaste.

About 3-5 days. Most of our stuff is in the shed at end of garden. We have 3 freezers and another fridge…

Start digging a tunnel from inside house to inside shed 😂

I was raised on Zombie everything, my sister is also adequately prepared for at least 28 weeks later. We are also 3 freezer people with enough pasta to supply the macaroni art of the entire population of P1.

I think probably about 3 weeks.

Probably 2.5 months. I have a large filled chest freezer filled with meat and vegetables, a garage filled with bottled water, juice and boxes of dried and canned foods. We do eat the food and have a rotation system. When both lock downs happened, we had plenty to eat and only needed fresh food and milk top ups from the corner shop. We were very lucky. I saw that film too and thought it was very interesting! Weren’t they in there for a few years?! Relying on trapped food and vegetables from the greenhouse! Suppose in reality, rats would come and they’d get trapped for food! Imagine the rat burgers and rat curries we’d have!

😂 never thought about that! Perhaps they had a bidet and used salt as toothpaste?!

I guess a couple of weeks. Luckily the cats always have at least a month's supply of cat food.

I've got 8 x 6 litres bottles of water and 4 long life milk plus 2 jars of powdered milk.

That's cheating 😂😂 I have masses in the garage freezer .

Mines attached to the house! Not in the garden 😜 Love my freezer!

Not sure how long but i'd get very bored of lentils and beans - plenty of spices to cook them in but veg would run out in 24 hours.

Got my bulk order of cat food today just in case so they don’t eat me if I run out

am strangely still thinking a lot about the film, something I never usually do

😂😂😂