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over a year ago
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On what food you currently have in your house?
Just got me thinking with the current situation. Should shops end up closing due to staff sickness, or any other reason really.
I live in a rural area and so when I shop I shop in bulk and I batch cook also. I have a pantry that looks like a little shop lol. I reckon if there were no food to buy, that I could ration and stretch my food out for approximately 4 months. (guestimation)
I know people who literally only keep in what they will eat for the next 3 to 4 days.
I'm not saying people should stockpile or think the worst, just interested in how long your current food could last you and your household.
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Ages, although the meals would get kinda weird and very lacking in fruit/veg, which we buy fresh. Plenty of random tins of stuff and a freezer full of bulk buys, slow cooker batch cooking and leftovers frozen for a quick tea  |
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over a year ago
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I've had to wait a day longer for my delivery this week and it's been a nightmare.
I'd like to think I'd be good in a survival scenario (I've played a lot of Fallout), but I need a decent meal and a big comfy bed or it's just not worth living.
So 8-9 days before I go savage.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Done a £100 shop yesterday.
So maybe 16 hours
Hope it was not all soap and loo rolls"
There was literally no hand soap available in asda, they sold out of it all because of the Corona virus  |
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They were sticking up notices limiting customers to 3 of each of certain items. Place was packed. I only did my usual weekly shop. There isn't even a single confirmed case of the virus on the island yet! Utter lunacy. No soap left & I only wanted one bottle! |
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It would depend if we knew we needed to make it last. Two weeks normal eating, four weeks if we had to make it last possibly a bit longer.
I think most of us could manage on 75 to 50% of what we eat now if we had to |
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Bloody ages. My freezers are packed.
I'm good at buying frozen food, but rarely use it. I mostly cook with fresh ingredients,about all I use from the freezer are prawns and peas!
The total collapse of civilization will be a good excuse to use up all those portions of frozen sausage casserole... |
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For those saying they can't get handsoap in their local shops just fill up your soap dispensers with shower gel, it's basically the same thing. Failing that try liquid dish detergent. Make do and mend peoples! This is war! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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About three weeks. I have deliberately run down the freezer, the fridge and cupboards because I was sick of sitting on stock that can sit in supermarket warehouses instead. |
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"For those saying they can't get handsoap in their local shops just fill up your soap dispensers with shower gel, it's basically the same thing. Failing that try liquid dish detergent. Make do and mend peoples! This is war! "
I figured the shower gel thing earlier today but to the marauding hoards in the supermarket it simply HAS to gave antibac on the label to panic buy it. Nobody realises it's the hot water that kills the germs off. Muppets! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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2 weeks.
If it was the case that I would starve to death without an option of getting more, I could ration it to 4 weeks.
I shop fresh mostly but always have "reserves" like a bit of frozen and tinned stuff |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Well i survive 3 weeks eith a apple a day when someone rob all my money from my house and run away ..my landlord triw mw in the streets he was made with the guy who stole all my money..so i reckon 3 to 4 weeks |
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Don't worry the goverment have contingency plans, food and cleansing kits to give free of charge to people in home quarantine.........don't they? Somebody? 
Uncle Ben's rice is a good one to store long term, good variety too. Dried milk or Coffee mate in case of milk shortage.
My fave is Golden Veg. if anyone in the goverment is reading. Oh and chicken noodle soup, if you can throw in a lippy and mascara too, cheers.
My current supplies should last about a week or two. Thinking of doing some geurilla planting, peas, carrots and pots.
Anyone seen Naked and Afraid?
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Maybe 6 months. I've lived in some pretty remote places in the world so am pretty prepared by nature.
Diesel generator, a couple of methods for purifying water, plenty of tins, grains and pulses.
You soon dismiss fridges and freezers when forced to live through extended power cuts.
I do need to get some long life milk, though. I can get right cranky when without my coffee. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Having my own live stock and 3 shared freezers full of meat I reckon I could last a fair while on the atkins diet and could even probably stick to a strict keto diet for about 6-9 months maybe more if I cut portion size  |
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Went shopping today so a fair while I’d say but it was madness half selves empty all soap and loo roll gone I got last pack. Was rammed with ppl panic buying stuff I just got normal shop with few extra tinned items as having had a death in mk already and me having Underlying illness not taking chances lol |
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Several weeks, I’ve got various tins in the pantry and a load of catering sized tins. I’d have to develop a taste for beans though. Got a massive sack of rice and pasta too. Plus, have three fields around me growing vegetables, cauliflower can do anything! |
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"We have a large cheat freezer full of food and kitchen cupboards full so we would last quite a while. We would miss fresh veg though."
I grew potatoes in grow bags a few times. Dead easy. Trouble is they take forever, April to September. |
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As I'm moving currently about a week in my cupboards as I've run everything down, if it got serious and into lockdown situations we wouldn't run out as the farm provides all that we need so we would probably have the army as lodgers |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"As I'm moving currently about a week in my cupboards as I've run everything down, if it got serious and into lockdown situations we wouldn't run out as the farm provides all that we need so we would probably have the army as lodgers "
And me if you make a roast every day  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"On what food you currently have in your house?
Just got me thinking with the current situation. Should shops end up closing due to staff sickness, or any other reason really.
I live in a rural area and so when I shop I shop in bulk and I batch cook also. I have a pantry that looks like a little shop lol. I reckon if there were no food to buy, that I could ration and stretch my food out for approximately 4 months. (guestimation)
I know people who literally only keep in what they will eat for the next 3 to 4 days.
I'm not saying people should stockpile or think the worst, just interested in how long your current food could last you and your household.
So"
I'm away so as long as i couldn't eat    |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't do a big shop, little weekly ones for me. I find I have too much waste if I do big shops and I struggle to plan. So I would say not very long, naybe a month if I really had to push it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was just wondering what I had in my bottom cupboards and I have 24 army ration pack meals nearly two years out of date.but they selling out of tins beans is really silly . They still have everything else. |
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I'm amazed how long people could last. I'd say somewhere between a week or 2 and that's with what I consider a well stocked freezer. Although it's well stocked for a single guy which could be the difference |
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By *ndrew CareyMan
over a year ago
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire & Lincolnshire |
"On what food you currently have in your house?
Just got me thinking with the current situation. Should shops end up closing due to staff sickness, or any other reason really.
I live in a rural area and so when I shop I shop in bulk and I batch cook also. I have a pantry that looks like a little shop lol. I reckon if there were no food to buy, that I could ration and stretch my food out for approximately 4 months. (guestimation)
I know people who literally only keep in what they will eat for the next 3 to 4 days.
I'm not saying people should stockpile or think the worst, just interested in how long your current food could last you and your household.
So"
I don't live in a rural area but I always bulk shop, something my mum taught us to do.
So, I'm good for just over 3 months. I can also bake so can make bread and cake if needed. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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I don't live in a rural area but I always bulk shop, something my mum taught us to do.
So, I'm good for just over 3 months. I can also bake so can make bread and cake if needed."
I can't bake to save my life but I can make flat breads using just yogurt and flour which would do. Though once the yogurt ran out... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"On what food you currently have in your house?
Just got me thinking with the current situation. Should shops end up closing due to staff sickness, or any other reason really.
I live in a rural area and so when I shop I shop in bulk and I batch cook also. I have a pantry that looks like a little shop lol. I reckon if there were no food to buy, that I could ration and stretch my food out for approximately 4 months. (guestimation)
I know people who literally only keep in what they will eat for the next 3 to 4 days.
I'm not saying people should stockpile or think the worst, just interested in how long your current food could last you and your household.
So"
You pulled am skint and got weeks worth food when can I move in.
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I could easily feed myself for 4 to 6 weeks. Would run out of fresh stuff, cereal and snacks but I'm good for meals.
Would have been over 2 months but one of my freezers decided to defrost itself at the weekend |
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By *ndrew CareyMan
over a year ago
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire & Lincolnshire |
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I don't live in a rural area but I always bulk shop, something my mum taught us to do.
So, I'm good for just over 3 months. I can also bake so can make bread and cake if needed.
I can't bake to save my life but I can make flat breads using just yogurt and flour which would do. Though once the yogurt ran out... "
I also bought some milk powder, so will do some experimentation.
In theory, it should work provided the yoghurt starter is available |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I get a few meat parcels in every month which means I only have to shop for fruit and veg daily. On the basis that I just gotta survive, I've probably got another 20 pieces of meat in the freezer along with pasta, rice and tinned beans and soup. At a guess I'd say i could last another 4 weeks before i started eating the leg of one of my housemates  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I got loads kicking about in the freezer and loads of tins of soups, and abundance of pasta but I’d go nuts without fresh milk.
In a zombie apocalypse you’re supposed to fill your bath tub with water so you have water to drink when everyone else is dead and no one to man the reservoirs shutting off your supply. Then you’re to knock out your stairs cos zombies can’t climb or jump apparently.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Not long, I shop every few days so there is hardly anything in my cupboards and I don’t freeze food, I could do with losing several stone anyway "
Pretty much the same here |
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