How long could you last ?

were complaints , I mean .

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.

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

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. 😂

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Someone mentioned cost of running fridge? I was taught to take up any unused capacity by filling with polystyrene blocks. Bit weird at first but used to itnnow.

Unused capacity?
Fridge? (Or freezer) ?
That’s like leftover wine - I don’t understand the concept!

Yes, it's the eggs, milk and bread I need to buy regularly. I do keep some bread in the freezer but it takes up a lot of room. I suppose I have oats and strong flour so I can make my favourite oat dough.
It is amazing how many meals for two you can get out of an extra large chicken! Though if I was cooking for one I think it would last too long. Off to make some bolognaise for the freezer today.

I found rice very useful in lockdown, easy to cook just as much as you need and risotto is great for spinning out leftovers.

Lathyrus

I could probably last three or four months on the fat I’ve already stored (sigh)

Me too! But storecupboard meals tend to have a lot of carbohydrates.

There is food in our freezer for a month or six weeks, plus tinned food, flour and extra cat food in the pantry.

But like everyone else, we would be out of dairy products such as yoghurt, cream and cheese in a week or so; coffee in the course of a month, and cat food at the outside in the course of three weeks.

If we rationed it, probably 3 months

Hmm tough one! Possibly a couple of weeks if we was really careful. Thankfully I do make some vegetarian stuff as we used to do meat free Monday's That would make the frozen fish and chicken fillets go a bit further

I could probably last a couple of months or so, that's if I don't die of boredom from the same meals: (assuming I can make some bread) beans on toast, mackerel on toast, red lentil and veg stew, PEK with everything, etc, etc.