With all that's written lately about us throwing so much food away (me included, I'm a slave to 'the dates') - how long could you survive on the food that is sitting right now in your cupboards and freezer, etc?

I've been ill for a few days and wonder how long I could go without visiting the shops to stock up? Obviously I'll run out of milk but I could always switch from tea to coffee with coffeemate init. &I could have cheese with crackers instead of bread, etc, etc.... The cupboard is full of soups, packets of rice, etc.

How long could YOU last? Just a few days? A Week? Think about it....

I have a huge freezer full of (homecooked from scratch ) food that would do us at least 6 weeks!

As for stuff I have apart from that, its mostly ready meals and snacky stuff that would probably do us a week.

I always have plenty of milk because my little one loves drinking it - I buy the fresh filtered that lasts longer so we would probably be okay for quite a few days on that!

2 weeks max. Not enough staple foods in the cupboards to keep us going. I guess thats my own fault because I like variety whereas eating out of the cupboards/ freezxer would end up being similar food rotated

I buy lots of things in catering size so I'd probably be alright for a good while, though I Know I'm low on salt so that might be a problem. Don't have a lot of forzen or tinned veg or fruit so that would be a concern.

Defrosted our fridge and freezer last week- we would starve in days

If I ate 2 meals a day ... about four days.

I could make it stretch to 3 weeks if I ate sparingly. I'm a poor student with not much food

Oops. Perhaps time to go shopping.


My daughter would sympathise. She has been living off baked potatoes and various fillings and Pasta/sauce for ages!

Ahum...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8479639.stm

Wow, a whole 0.1%

If, like my husband, I could live entirely on meat I could go a couple of weeks easily as the freezer is bursting with meat. And I have a bit of a cereal fetish (I always have to have a choice of at least 3 cereals at once) so could eat that if I had milk.

I'b probably get scurvy before I ran out of food.

I could easily live for about a month on canned and frozen stuff. I am a bit of a hoarder and seem to be pathologically incapable of going to the supermarket and NOT buying canned soup and frozen peas.
Mind you, I'd lose the will to live, regardless of all the cock a leekie and mullagatawny, when the tea and coffee ran out.