Our neighbor across the street has a breadfruit tree and probably would share enough to keep us from starving, if it came to that. It bears A LOT of fruit. We had to toss some old lifeboat water that was older than I was when we were cleaning out H’s parent’s home. Much of the freeze-dried stuff only keeps a few days once you open the mylar pouch and only about a year after you open the sealed bucket. I’m really not all that keen on buying bucket(s) of provisions and figuring out a good place to store them in or around my small home.
I can survive forever, or until I die of old age.
We live in the country. Our neighbors provide us regularly with venison, quail, eggs, vegetables. In return we are sort of an open bar in the midst of a culture that officially prohibits drinking. We go through a lot of alcohol here and we are only drinking a small bit of it. We stock the favorites of individual neighbors. I have cases on hand.
We have a spring, so we will have water even when the well pump goes out with no electricity. Also, some neighbors have a lake and they would share. Everyone has ponds, but that is too muddy for me, given all the other options. The people before us drank spring water for more than a hundred years, so probably it is okay. I will pretend it’s perrier.
Food? Probably about a month.
We still have a ton of left over alcohol from the wedding though. So, while we might starve to death, we won’t feel it! 
“lifeboat water” there’s a term you don’t run across everyday!
For water the Lifestraw - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H90PFOK?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00 is an option. Good for travel and camping too.
I have water but I might have to shoot the raven for meat with my homemade gun.
I have a gas grill outside that I can cook or boil water.
We go to Sam’s and stock up on a lot of non-perishable foods just for convenience and cost, but oh god, no, I’m not one of those doomsday preppers, heaven forbid, and I don’t live my life fearing that there is going to be some civil unrest preventing me from going to the grocery store. People like that scare me, to be honest.
We have an ultraviolet light thing for purifying water from ds’s visit to Pakistan and India freshman year.
I have 6 fireplaces, and a good bit of forest, so y’all can all cook at my place.
If you live in earthquake country, which I do, local authorities recommend that you keep at least a weeks worth of water and food on hand. It does not take much thought and still gives me plenty of can goods to give out during the local holiday food drive. H makes fun of me since I still fill the tub up with water after we have a tremor,(just in case it’s a fore shock. X_X He reminded me last time that if it WAS the “big one” coming it would all splash out and would be just one more mess to clean up.
I bake, and cook from scratch almost every meal. I buy flour by the 25 lb sack (7$), Pintos, sugar, etc.
I could easily last a couple months… I think my weak-link might be cooking oil. I don’t keep more than a gallon in the house. Cooking from scratch is cheap, but sometimes I get bored with my own recipes!
@earlvandorn Do you watch ***Fear The Walking Dead ***?
I love storms. I’m a real weather geek. Not a “build a bomb shelter, the world is ending” storm freak, just your run of the mill Weather Channel junkie.
I’m also a mom. That means that I do what I can to ensure that my family has its needs attended to.
When there’s a real storm (translation: hurricane or blizzard) approaching Long Island, I do what I can to prepare:
- I call my mom. She’s 85 and lives on her own. I want to make sure her pantry is well stocked, even though I KNOW my brother and 3 sisters will all do the same. For Sandy, one sister stayed with mom for a week (PS: her own house ended up in the evacuation zone) and they both evacuated to another sister’s house.
- I make sure that, if we were to lose power, we would be OK. I make sure we have batteries, canned soup, assorted non perishables and enough water to be comfortable for a few days. Like most people I know, we could live off the supplies in our pantry for quite some time. Not out of fear of the apocalypse, simply because that's how I run my house. We would run out of water before food-- when there's a serious storm coming, I tend to refill empty gallon or 2 liter bottles of water. I've never needed them, but refill them anyway.
We have a gas stove. Even if the electronic ignition went, it can be started manually.
During Sandy, I had everyone sleep on the concrete floor of the basement. (We’re about 20 minutes- that’s as far as you can get on LI-- from the beach. So falling trees was a FAR greater threat than storm surge.)
We were in the lucky 10% of the island that didn’t lose power. (We lost part of our roof, but we had power.)
For us in HI, a big problem with getting a ton of edibles is keeping the roaches, ants, weevils and other bugs from infecting these supplies. They are very clever and it’s best for us not to give them additional food and places to hide and breed. When we stock up, we end up with stale and expired “stuff,” so we just prefer not to do so.
About a week right now, as I am about to move and have been paring down. But usually have about 2 weeks of water, and a month of food. Although the last week would not be pretty… but we wouldn’t starve.
Don’t forget: you have to shoot them in the head.
My two cats have about a month’s worth of food since I get in large quantities with Amazon’s Subscribe and Save. Human food not so much. So unless I want to be sharing dinner with the felines during the zombie apocalypse, I guess it’s time to stock up on canned goods. If worst comes to worst I can always force myself to eat the food my D left behind before departing for school. Poptarts and frozen taquitos, anyone?
I’d say we could deal for a month. We do a lot of camping, so have lots of associated gear/food that we could use.
After Sandy, we got a generator, which should keep the furnace and the fridge going, plus some other stuff. But boy, was it hard to get a meal around here the day after Sandy!! We drove up Post Road – US Route 1-- looking for a restaurant – any restaurant! – to be open. Finally found our local Italian place which is pizza plus some Italian dishes. The place was literally the only place open in town, and it was mobbed. The guy was all alone just cooking pizza after pizza after pizza. We were so grateful that he was open that we gave him $30 for our pizza.
What is the saying? We are only three days away from the loss of civilization? Better have pizza!