How long could you last ?

What is Italian parsley? And how do you grow it? Intrigued!

That was something good about the lockdowns-I dredged up the old bread maker and made a lot of bread. It's gone to the back of the cupboard again now.

Probably three months (we are very rural and stock up) but fresh food would run out in a week. We would also be eating some very exotic meals using up all the sauces and spices that I seem to have amalgamated! Could live out of the freezer for six months probably!

A few weeks, would be ok for bread we make our own and are well stocked up on flour, milk we have. A stock of long life milk we use for yogurt making but fresh fruit that would ne the downfall

I could probably manage 2/3 weeks. I'd Covid for 16 days and didn't go to the shops the whole time and I was fine. My friend just dropped off milk to me for my porridge and some fruit. I make batch dinners and always have some baps, potato bread and sodas in the freezer.

i would last about a week, i only buy what i need, three slices of bread left and 1 pint of milk.

If we're talking literally about survival, though - and we have access to water - I believe we'd 'last' for a few months with no food at all!

Like tanith I would probably be ok for a couple of weeks or so and could bake bread but would need fresh milk at least every few days, and once I had used up the carrots, onions and potatoes currently to hand, probably in soup, life would become decidedly dull, and not very healthy

Ten days.
My little dog would be fine for about a month.

Maybe two months...have tins of chickpeas and jackfruit I should use. Think I might try it. I only have enough cat food for a couple of weeks though.

About a week max but that would mean no milk.Would run out of fresh fruit/veg but have a bit in the freezer. I don't keep a lot in fridge or freezer, thinking of downsizing it in fact if it will save on electricity.

At least a month, probably two but I would need to buy milk (I do have a tin of milk powder because we get power cuts and completely cut off from the village in snow/ice.
I do have a bit of a Seine mentality, mainly because I’ve never lived near shops.

A few months at least I think. We are no longer in deepest rural France having moved twenty minutes nearer our local town and our nearest shop is a couple of kilometres away. We still have a lot of food and preserves in stock. We could eat our own chutney and marmalade for a very long time.
We also have a healthy wine rack and a cupboard full of vintage Calvados in plain bottles from our farming friends. No doubt they could give us some milk, butter and cream too. 😂

Re veg, I have always sprouted seeds for eating during the dark months and am adding very healthy sprouted seeds to my daily food. Alfalfa in particular, are very easy to sprout. They make a reasonable veg substitute if needed. The seeds keep a very long time

Times are strange! I bought some tinned tomatoes, sultanas and a tub of custard powder from the local little convenience store. Another customer remarked on some of the low prices and the owner explained that the 'older stock' is cheaper than supermarkets right now - due to low turnover - but new stock will be much more expensive. He is shocked at the cost of things at the wholesaler.

were complaints , I mean .

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 !

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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