How long could you last ?

Purplepixie

We could manage for about 2 weeks but we would need milk, unless we froze some of that as well.

I always keep some long life cartons of milk and more of them in the winter just in case of bad weather or if I felt poorly.

The seed potatoes are sprayed before planting nanna8 to eliminate potato blight.

Only a day or two.
We take for granted that we can just go down in the lift and Sainsbury’s is just outside the main entrance door in the square. I call it my ‘larder’.
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Taking "last" to mean stay alive, if we lived on lentils and rice, and pasta with tinned tomatoes, and only drank water (or black tea/coffee), probably a lot longer than we would like to consider.

Eating normally about 4 days. If it was a matter of survival we could probably double that. DH is always eating.
We also live in a City centre and shop almost daily.

I could probably go a month or so, by eating all sorts of weird things.
No doubt I could drink water, too, but...

I’d probably last less than a week, I have started just buying what I need rather than doing a massive shop, I was wasting too much food. I do need to stock up with the store cupboard essentials before the prices go up even more though. I have a few tins/dry goods at the back of the cupboards and a loaf and few bits in the freezer but wouldn’t last long. I have a small box of fresh vegetables delivered so could make plenty of soup!
I agree about the potatoes nanna8, when the children were little we used to get a big sack of spuds delivered by the milkman, they came complete with soil and I remember having to cut big chunks of black bits out of quite a few of them, they were very cheap for the quantity though compared to a small bag from the supermarket today.

Just remembered that DH bought a frozen turkey crown yesterday. That's another week!!!!

I have five tins of tuna for work my way through.
I don't even like fish.

Quite a long time, if we stayed content with pulses, pastas, rices, polenta, quinoa, flours, tinned tomatoes, apples, onions, potatoes.

Other than fresh veg and fruit same as normal.

At least a month. We use UHT milk and always have plenty in stock. I have plenty of flour and could make bread. I would quickly run out of potatoes and onions, but I always have a box of chopped frozen onions in the freezer and with rice, couscous and pasta in stock the lack of potatoe would not be a major problem.

The first thing I would do , should the eventuality arrive,is take an inventory of what I had and then plan what food to set aside for each of the next 5 weeks, so that we had a varied, and, as far as possible, healthy diet.

As long as we didn't get a power cut, we could probably last a few weeks or maybe a month uncomfortably. I have a huge bag of soya mince in the cupboard that might last years though...

Since lockdown I started buying a sack of rice, pasta and keeping instant mash in the house. So I always have food in the house, to give away or to eat in an emergency. Since there have been no emergencies I've been able to send loads to the Ukraine and also local food banks, then I've just replaced it.

Probably 3 to 4 weeks then another couple of months if it is possible to survive on gooseberries and redcurrants! A freezer full of them plus other allotment harvests,

1 month +. I enough tea, coffee, sugar, salt, rice, pasta, spices and a freezer full of everything else.

If I was more frugal than usual, I'd maybe last 2-3 weeks with a tin of soup or the powdered variety each day, but not much else. I don't keep much in the freezer. I could make bread I suppose but it'd be very boring without fresh stuff to make a nice sandwich. It would get pretty dull.

Probably about 3 weeks if we were frugal and cut down our meal sizes a bit and we would have to eat some unusual meals by the end.

Probably 3weeks or so. I keep milk in the freezer but would miss French cheese!

It would be hard to say until put to the test. I've always got a fair amount of pasta, rice, baked beans, lentils, tinned tuna, tinned tomatoes and other non perishables, such as tea and coffee, plus fish, mince, chicken and the inevitable peas in the freezer plus other essentials such as ice cream I'd soon run out of milk, bread (always have a bit in the freezer) fresh fruit and veg. A few weeks of living creatively and then out in the garden to graze I guess

A couple of months with cupboards and pull out full of lots of dry goods and tins. There is still some veg in our raised beds. Our freezer is nearly empty as it needs replacing.

tanith

Probably a week or two but I’d run out of milk, bread and fresh fruit and veg in days.

About the same as tanith.

Probably about 10 days as my freezer is a very small one but then there is only me!

A few days ago my nephew came down and he usually picks up the makings of a meal on the way. Unfortunately his bank card had stopped working and 3 cash machines refused him. The last one told him that it "could not contact his bank" so he knew it was the system and not his card. (It has since been ok).

So we had to have a meal from what was in the house. A combination of tinned and frozen items. We quite enjoyed it.

Couple of months I think. Must make a point of freezing some bread.

I freeze croissants and they freeze surprisingly well. I would always heat them up in the oven in any case so it just takes a bit longer. Very bad for us but, hey, you gotta live as they say.

Ages, assuming we had water and a heat source. I have jars of all sorts of dried pulses, rice, pasta, nuts and dried fruit, plus a spice cupboard, so we could live on daal, bean casseroles and soup. There are tins of tomatoes and more pulses, as well as flour, custard powder and various vinegars and other flavourings, so I could improvise a pudding most days, if we fancied it. The freezer is full of leftovers and veg, plus meat and veggie sausages and Quorn mince, so I could spin that out for a while, too.

We would get bored, and having no bread, milk or eggs would be limiting, but we would survive for a long time if we had to.

I think that I've inherited my grandma's siege mentality !

I have a lot of canned goods plus powdered milk .
Bread would be a problem , but I can make Indian style flat breads .
I don't know how my supplies would last maybe three weeks maybe a month if I rationed them .
My problem is my father ! He never stops complaining about his food - even food that he's requested .
When he talks about going without during the Second World War - I feel irritated.
He didn't go without much because he comes from farming stock and there was always something to eat .
I've had a hospital week with him and I've eaten a lot of sandwiches !
Not great for the diet !
And when he was on a proper ward after being in A and E for a few days - all I heard from him was complaints about his missing pudding !
After two hours , I was glad to go home !