Surviving on the food in your kitchen cupboards...
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The zombie attack has begun, anyone you live with is dead, you're on your own. You've barricaded yourself in your house and daren't go out, in any case the shops are empty through looting. Normality will resume one day but you don't know when..
So how long can you survive just on the food that is in your kitchen cupboards/fridge/freezer without going hungry?
Me? With the food that's at the back of our cupboards that hasn't been seen in over a year, and the chest freezer in the garage who's bottom hasn't been bare since the day we bought it - I'd say 2 months.
So how long can you survive just on the food that is in your kitchen cupboards/fridge/freezer without going hungry?
Me? With the food that's at the back of our cupboards that hasn't been seen in over a year, and the chest freezer in the garage who's bottom hasn't been bare since the day we bought it - I'd say 2 months.
Depends.. Is there running water? Power?
..Because if not, a drawer full of various flour, pasta, rice, dry lentils etc becomes a bit less useful!
If the induction hob still works, and the freezer still freezes, I reckon at least a couple of months (probably more) and that's without going on a pure rations rice type diet. Quick peek in the freezer - we've got 4 chickens, a shelf of meat, and at least 1.5x that as frozen but already made stuff.
Ironically, I think I'd run out of rice / pasta / accoutrements first, but the vast quantity of various flour (sadly then mixed with water because the milk would be dead in 10 days) would presumably make some sort of semi edible "not bread". Hell, if it got really, terribly horribly drastic, I could even eat the pate.
..Because if not, a drawer full of various flour, pasta, rice, dry lentils etc becomes a bit less useful!
If the induction hob still works, and the freezer still freezes, I reckon at least a couple of months (probably more) and that's without going on a pure rations rice type diet. Quick peek in the freezer - we've got 4 chickens, a shelf of meat, and at least 1.5x that as frozen but already made stuff.
Ironically, I think I'd run out of rice / pasta / accoutrements first, but the vast quantity of various flour (sadly then mixed with water because the milk would be dead in 10 days) would presumably make some sort of semi edible "not bread". Hell, if it got really, terribly horribly drastic, I could even eat the pate.
Hmm, I've got plenty of soft drinks, a few kilos of protein powder, a big stash of protein bars, some bottled water, fresh and frozen meat and veg. Even got a camping stove and fuel for it if the power went out.
I think I could manage several weeks if I needed to, as long as I had water, and if necessary I have rain barrels to collect that.
I think I could manage several weeks if I needed to, as long as I had water, and if necessary I have rain barrels to collect that.
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