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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:58:48 PM EDT
[#1]
3 teenage boys….they’d probably eat a bucket of mountain house each per day so maybe a couple weeks.??
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Posted: 1/24/2022 10:59:09 PM EDT
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I said two days on the food we have on hand however could make at least another two months on my fat reserves. User name checks out. |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:06:54 PM EDT
[#3]
This is arfcom…. If you don’t have 3yrs worth of food, it’s your funeral.
But what would I know. Join date, Post count, Blah blah blah… |
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Posted: 1/24/2022 11:16:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The better question is how much food do you have without running water or city energy to prepare it. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:20:43 AM EDT
[#5]
If I had a supply of water...
At 1800 calories and two multivitamin/mineral tablets daily at least a year comfortably. 18 months if I ration. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:22:55 AM EDT
[#6]
Indefinitely.
I have lots of preppers as neighbors and quiet shoes. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:23:39 AM EDT
[#7]
Until lunch tomorrow.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:49:36 AM EDT
[#8]
How bored am I going to be? That could change a weeks worth of food I to a few hours of food.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 7:23:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: so will everyone else. wild game wont last long Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'd be out shooting squirrels and rabbits in my yard wild game wont last long 
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Posted: 1/25/2022 7:32:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Indefinitely. I have lots of preppers as neighbors and quiet shoes. So, you're a shitbird looter? You show up on my porch you get a face full of 12 gauge. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 7:39:49 AM EDT
[#11]
Over a year. There’s just three of us though.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:14:13 AM EDT
[#12]
Can I go to the chicken houses across the street for a fresh supply of chicken or are they off limits? What about the cows next door ?
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:29:06 AM EDT
[#13]
For most of us it’s over when you drink that last Natty Light from the 30 pack in the garage and your Kodak runs out.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:31:54 AM EDT
[#14]
3- 4 months easy.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:32:38 AM EDT
[#15]
Well over a year.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:34:04 AM EDT
[#16]
Do the chickens count? If I had to eat nothing but what I have in stock I could survive for quite a while if the power stays on. It wouldn't be a balanced diet after maybe a month but we'd not starve.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:42:47 AM EDT
[#17]
1 week.
Assuming water has been shut off. Ocean is at end of street, can I turn salt water into drinking water? Of course if I go to the ocean I might be able to catch fish which could extend that week. But, walking to & from the ocean would leave me vulnerable to snipers. 1 week. 
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:46:01 AM EDT
[#18]
If we stretch it out by making soups/stews, 12 months +. The big problem for is clean water and shelter for SHTF, most people won’t live long enough to get hungry.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 8:54:51 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 6 months or more if just the wife and I. If the daughter and grand kids showed up considerably less. Well of course they will show up unless you have taught them better. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:16:10 AM EDT
[#20]
About a month if we were careful. Small urban apartment. Any more food is unrealistic due to storage space.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:31:08 AM EDT
[#21]
A month or two if we ration. Depends on what the situation is and the time of year (winter vs summer.)
Food is not my concern, having enough gas to cycle the generator every day to keep our well pressure primed and freezer froze is. Once I pull the plug on using gas for the generator and keeping the freezer cold our way of living steps back a century. Of course all this depends on the season. If it were right now I could be making 5 gallon ice blocks each night as needed, requiring less generator runtime. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:31:40 AM EDT
[#22]
About 3-4months here comfortably. If we were to ration we could make it a month or so longer I reckon.
After that I’m coming for yours. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:44:38 AM EDT
[#23]
Is it just me and the wife or have the invading hordes of family locusts arrived?
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:46:45 AM EDT
[#24]
Around a yearish
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:47:40 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 6 months easily, and that would be eating good. Not counting dried beans and rice and stuff like that. We've got two freezers always kept full or nearly so. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:48:55 AM EDT
[#26]
At least a year. 18 months if we're careful.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 9:49:07 AM EDT
[#27]
Probably over 6 months but it would start to get rough after around the 4 month mark.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:13:57 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So, you're a shitbird looter? You show up on my porch you get a face full of 12 gauge. Lol. “I’m going to kill you, random internet commenter!” |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:17:41 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: none of your business. THIS ^^^^^^ but if were yer bees wax Like the KINKS song goes All of the day and most of the night . |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:35:55 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can I go to the chicken houses across the street for a fresh supply of chicken or are they off limits? What about the cows next door ? Ask the man who owns them. Or are you one of those shitbird looters? |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:44:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:46:00 AM EDT
[#32]
Do you know it's SHTF and societal collapse near the beginning of this hypothetical or much later on? When you begin to ration makes a huge difference. Probably 3-4 months or 5-6 if heavily rationed
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:50:02 AM EDT
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Quoted: It's snow season, with the chance of power outages and being unable to get to a store. It's SHTF season where the world could end and you only have the food available at your house. How much food do you have on hand at your house? How long could you last with what food you have on hand at your house? OMG! That exact thing happened yesterday when I was pooping |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 10:51:39 AM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: All day. Wow. one meal here. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:00:35 AM EDT
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I have 2 refrigerators and a deep freezer. Inside fridge holds prepared foods and desserts, garage fridge holds fresh ingredients and deep freezer holds protein that's vacuumed sealed (easily a dozen ribeyes, chuck roasts, ground beef, chicken legs and thighs, salmon, shrimp and pork chops and pork butt). Then a large walk in pantry full of just about everything from 50lb bags of rice to pasta and snacks. Then I have a 70 inch wide 6ft tall rack of more things like water, drinks, protein shakes, coffee etc.
So I think I can go well over a month if not 3 or more if I ration it. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:14:36 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The better question is how much food do you have without running water or city energy to prepare it. Lol My water is from my well and I have a wood stove for backup heat/cooking. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:19:17 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Can I go to the chicken houses across the street for a fresh supply of chicken or are they off limits? What about the cows next door ? Seems like a good way to get shot. When livestock becomes important to one's survival, expect them to be defended with deadly force. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:21:21 AM EDT
[#38]
Over six months for the most part.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:39:33 AM EDT
[#39]
5-6 months
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Posted: 1/25/2022 11:59:11 AM EDT
[#40]
I have been preparing, I can go six months or more.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:22:55 PM EDT
[#41]
I guess it amazes me just how many folks (guessing at least 70%+ here) have a strategy that depends on the electric grid staying operational / continuing to work.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:28:52 PM EDT
[#42]
3-4 months for a family of 4 on hand and ready to go.
A backup fridge/freezer full, a chest freezer almost full, and 3 medium-to-large pantry shelves full of dried and canned goods. I also have about 1800 lbs of beef on the hoof roaming in a field. If you don't have a month's worth of food on hand for your entire family right now, then I'm not sure what you're thinking. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:30:37 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I guess it amazes me just how many folks (guessing at least 70%+ here) have a strategy that depends on the electric grid staying operational / continuing to work. I was just about to post that. I didn't even count my refrigerated/frozen food in my estimate. I consider all of that just extra. That would be the big feast when the power goes out, and then drop to the non-perishables. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 12:35:40 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I was just about to post that. I didn't even count my refrigerated/frozen food in my estimate. I consider all of that just extra. That would be the big feast when the power goes out, and then drop to the non-perishables. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I guess it amazes me just how many folks (guessing at least 70%+ here) have a strategy that depends on the electric grid staying operational / continuing to work. I was just about to post that. I didn't even count my refrigerated/frozen food in my estimate. I consider all of that just extra. That would be the big feast when the power goes out, and then drop to the non-perishables. Or people have a way to work around the power being out. Fueled generators Solar generators etc |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 1:46:56 PM EDT
[#45]
True, but are they including enough on-site fuel in their estimates for those months?
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Posted: 1/25/2022 2:15:09 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: True, but are they including enough on-site fuel in their estimates for those months? If they are being smart about it, then yes. Edit: Removed the OP comment. |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 2:22:06 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Or people have a way to work around the power being out. Fueled generators Solar generators etc I have enough water, canning jars, and propane set aside to can all of my meat in my freezer Yes it will take a long time but I have things ready to go just in case |
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Posted: 1/25/2022 2:29:33 PM EDT
[#48]
Are talking about comfortable existence, or getting down to eating every last can of whatever is in the pantry?
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Posted: 1/25/2022 2:30:34 PM EDT
[#49]
My family can do a little over a month thanks to Mtn House.
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Posted: 1/25/2022 2:45:12 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Are talking about comfortable existence, or getting down to eating every last can of whatever is in the pantry? I take it as no electricity, or anything else, from outside your property, and you can't go buy anything. You have to live on what you already have, or can gather for free within a short distance. I count my canned foods, and for water I have the filters and jugs to purify water from our pond or the creek. (No electric would mean that our well would be useless, once we ran out of gas for our little generator). |
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