Right NOW - how long could your food supply last you

[millerjane]

I would say a good month of eating twice a day (pasta, rice dishes) - ie no thrills just sustenance

[MintySpud]

titchy
I do have a litre of Baileys though so won't care by then

That's Days 1-2 sorted, anyway.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

I, too, am struggling to understand how is buying a 10Kg sack of rice a month ago has deprived a vulnerable person. We usually buy 5kg at a time but the 10kg was reduced.

We have money and space that allows us to bulk buy (we are fortunate in that) so we can leave the smaller bags for those who can’t.

I have no hand sanitizer even though I live in London. There is no UHT milk so I have frozen some fresh milk instead.

I am now largely working on a replacement basis to just replenish anything we use.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

2 weeks. That’s with intermittent fasting so max 1-2 meals per day and keto so no hunger which helps.

I am worried about keto. Because I eat fresh food all the time on keto. Once the garden is up and running we will be better but I am concerned about prepping for keto. I'll be eating rice by week two on a real lockdown.

[Merinocool]

Probably 2 weeks at the very most.

[HairyTesticles]

2 weeks? One week of decent meals then just weird random stuff for the second week..

[AParallelUniverse]

Quite fed up wit people saying they are not stockpilers but that they are picking up a couple of extra packs of beans/pasta/looroll whenever they pop into a shop. This is having the same effect as stockpiling

The couple of extra bits I have picked up each week since January 2019 have had no impact on you at all. You should be grateful the preppers aren't there competing with you to grab what's left on the shelves, which the panic buyers are doing. Because then you would have no chance whatsoever of getting whatever it is you need. The empty shelves are there because of panic buyers, not because of preppers.

[Adviceneededplease9]

Family of 3 and 4 cats. I’ve always bought more food than we need in event of not being able to access food (anxiety related) but when the very first cases came about in the uk I bought more in and have a good amount of preps now. I’d say we could go 6 weeks or so and possibly a bit extra. That includes the cats too. I will help anybody I know though who is struggling and has less than us in an emergency situation and am grateful I am able to do so.

[CloudyVanilla]

I'm worried about this so much. I wanted to prep during Brexit but am on MATL and right now I have just enough to do my weekly shop.

I have managed to do a bigger shop this week so at a stretch this food could last us til the end of next week if it had to. But we would be scrimping on the last couple of days and fresh produce would be gone.

I have managed to stock up to an extent on long life stuff but again this is part of our normal day to day food so it will be depleted. I'm hoping to keep shopping like this (usually cook from fresh and freezers quite often empty as the kids don't eat much freezer type food) and have about 10 - 20% of what I've bought that week left over so we are building a surplus.

I wont let it get to the point where it actually becomes a necessity again like it could be soon, I have huge respect for preppers. I just wish I had more storage space!

[TheClitterati]

About a month I guess.
But I need to get some wine 🍷

[TheClitterati]

Mine is mostly from Brexit prepping. Not been buying much extra lately. Veg is a worry as we eat a lot of that.