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

I always have enough for probably about a month - it would be mostly porridge for breakfast, and then working through dry goods and tins (pasta, rice, lentils, beans) and freezer basics. I would run out of milk and anything other than tap water to drink though.

I'm mostly concerned about cat food and cat litter at the moment as there's no alternative for those and the cats can't just not eat like I could.

For context we could afford to go in the shop and clear the shelves, but we are able to exercise some self control.

We are going to start off some more veg in the garden shortly. We normally grow salad veg, beans, courgettes, herbs and some fruit. So as we move towards the summer we will be buying less than now.

A week max

A good three months, though it might get a bit boring quite quickly.

• not really to do with current crisis, I buy staples in bulk anyway.

lorrainerose
For context so could we and I haven’t panic bought but living in London I worked on the assumption one of the 4 of us will get it and we may have to self isolate for 2 weeks at short notice.

Hard to say. A couple of weeks of 'normal' eating so 3 meals a day fairly balanced (possibly dry cereal for breakfast if I couldn't get milk).

After that we could probably go a month of fairly odd meals because there is dried lentils, split peas, oats and then jars of pickles, a few things from a Christmas hamper: pates, marmalades. Not to mention the odd tin of sardines, chili con carne packet mix, ancient and slightly out of date box of bread sticks.

If I knew tomorrow there was no more food coming in for two months, we'd manage but it would have to be rationed and eaten in a sensible order do fresh/perishables first dried goods/long life and tins last.

Family of 6, 4 weeks. Pretty good food, after that very slim pickings.

Probably should say that hasn't all been panic bought!

My weekly shop is usually just fresh things and topping up/ rotating the stash. I haven't contributed to any of the clearing of shelves that's been happening lately.

There is also a wall of cat food pouches, but he is a very fat cat so I could always add him to the menu when it runs out

3 to 4 weeks but that would mean eating the wild boar our neighbour gave us and which I threw in the freezer and have since been avoiding.

3 weeks? I'm very lucky in that we have 2 fridge freezers so I've always kept a stock of frozen veg etc in. If I was genuinely on lockdown I would probably go through the lot and date check, do a menu etc so that everything gets used up and there's no 'fridge shrapnel soup' at the end! Even now I've done a big sign for the fridge saying not to open things without checking and using up opened packets first. I am not planning to go out in public except to school and to go to work on my 2 evenings and 1 afternoon- other than that I'm staying in for the foreseeable (and that includes the supermarket!)

At least 2 months but probably longer. We always have a stock of pasta rice, different lentils, chickpeas, different beans. Also tinned tomatoes and baked beans.

Plenty of home made soups and meals in the freezer plus milk, frozen veg and bread.

We could eat loads of lentil curries, chickpeas curries, different bean chillis, burgers etc. We have a big stock of spices and herbs.

We have had a good stock for years so not just stocking up now. In fact the only things we have bought in the last few weeks have been fresh fruit and veg.

People getting annoyed about others being organised and having a good stock of food (not talking about panic buyers) should maybe take a leaf out of our book. We are not panic buying and causing all the problems.

If more people had a reasonable stock then there would not be so many people having to go to shops to try and get things now would there?

About a month. We're pretty well stocked, I started stocking up in case of brexit problems and kept it up because I'm chronically ill and it is reassuring to know we can get by in case of illness or financial problems.

A week, maybe 2 if we ate the odd fish fingers out the bottom of the freezer. I’m not worried, I have a bit of veg and fruit growing in the garden, we have milk available near by (milk stations) and I have home delivery booked weekly with tesco. No reason to panick.

About 3 weeks but I'd have to get really imaginative for the last week or so and we'd be eating concoctions of the tins of veg and part baked baguettes I've accumulated in the cupboard. Hopefully my shopping comes on Friday!

2 maybe 3 weeks at a push. No special things, we have some bread making bits in and some long life milk. We have 2 months of vitamins for dd2 and a month of iron for me and dd1.

Maybe about a month but have kept dd3(9yrs) at home because of a mild (practically non existent) cough as advised by her school, and she keeps asking for food so probably less than a month with a 15 and 18 year old too

Few months, because I am a general prepper. My veg garden should kick in by then to make it easier to stretch things out even more. Meals might get a bit odd eventually.

I'll be able to live on bean wraps for a good while I think and have a few cans of soup and pot noodles for variety.

*Soooo selfish, can't believe some people on here who have months worth of things.

You have panic brought and stick piled at the expense of others.*

Yet no one on here have said they have been panic buying. Some of us just make sure we have enough to keep going at all times just in case. Being made redundant previously has that effect on people. And it has nothing to do with the virus that I have a freezer full of food

A couple of weeks, although we'd run out of bread and fresh fruit and veg pretty quickly and I'd have to convince DS to have oat milk on his cereal. We haven't panic-bought anything apart from an extra sack of dry dog food, but we had a 'Brexit Box' of tins and dried stuff so that would help. We'd be eating a lot of lentils by the end, though, which might not be ideal because we only have a few days' worth of loo roll!

I think about 3/4 months out of my brexit stock. Who knew it would come in so handy. It would be mostly tins of mixed beans, chickpeas and frozen goats cheese pizza by the end though.

About a month using my brexit stash