Do you always have food in your house?

Melisandre121

How often do you find yourself hungry but with no food in the house? This tends to happen to me a good bit. I get a food shop, eat it all and then end up too lazy to stock back up. God I'd kill for a tuna toastie right now but I've no tuna.

The Backwards Man

I'd usually have about a fortnight's worth of dinners here. Plenty of veg in the garden too, and if things get bad I can always go to the neighbours for something to eat

Minderbinder

Do you have bread?

Arghus

It's always handy to keep a goldfish.

Just in case...

maudgonner

I'm the opposite. I always want what I can't have. So I'll go out and buy the stuff I've been craving and then immediately lose the longing for it and want something different, that isn't in the house.


Cue cupboards full of stuff I no longer fancy and a freezer fit to burst.


No tuna though. Euuugghh!

Toots

Usually happens me the week running up to payday. I've enough food for the meals for the week plus a couple of snacks for my son, but nothing for myself or the hubby. Unless we want to share the dog's treats.

Melisandre121

Minderbinder wrote: »

Do you have bread?

Yes, I just made some toast there... Exciting stuff

Surreptitious

Why would anyone not have at least dried goods to rely on? I always have food at the ready.

Ted_YNWA

Have 2/3 weeks worth of dinners in the freezer.

Good bit of pasta & tinned foods here as well. ( no tuna though, but have salmon)

Badly Drunk Boy

I always have a good bit of freezer stuff. In fact, I keep meaning to let it run low so I can defrost properly but it hasn't happened yet. For years.

I'd always have basic tinned stuff and things like noodles, even if I rarely eat them. Then the normal fresh fridge stuff.

Minderbinder

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Have 2/3 weeks worth of dinners in the freezer.

That seems excessive. How big is your freezer?

Normally I'd have one pizza or something in the freezer but other than that I'd shop every other day, buy fresh and cook fresh.

Chain Smoker

If I'm living in a town:
nope, sure I'm just a five minute walk from a shop.

If I'm living in the country:
yes, I've a freezer stuffed full of all manner of ****e, a variety of tinned foods filling up two whole presses, some plants and stuff growing outside that might be an option if needed... just tons of ****.

Surreptitious

Everyone should have the option of dried or tinned goods, frozen stuff and a variety of fresh fruit/veg plus a fridge filled with fresh food plus breads/crackers/crisps extraneous munchy goods. Coffees, teas etc are also compulsory. Anything less is negligence.

Canis Lupus

At the bare minimum eggs, bread and milk will be available.

Mackman

If push came to shove, we could live quite easily for about 1-2 weeks on the food we have. But it's always a matter of "I don't feel like having any of that" so we go buy something in the shop.

shar01

With the possibility of Trump becoming President, I've been stockpiling tinned goods. Just in case.

Does anyone know if the iodine tablets sent out after 9/11 go out of date?

Annasopra

Yeah -
cupboards full of pasta, rice, jams, chutneys, cereals, sauces, tins, grains

Fridge full of cheese, butter, vegetables, open sauces, eggs, milk, juices

Freezer full of bread, meat, fish

Ted_YNWA

Minderbinder wrote:

That seems excessive. How big is your freezer?

I do a lot of batch cooking & freeze individual portions.

CountingCrows

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Yeah -
cupboards full of pasta, rice, jams, chutneys, cereals, sauces, tins, grains

Fridge full of cheese, butter, vegetables, open sauces, eggs, milk, juices

Freezer full of bread, meat, fish

Eggs in the fridge. WTF!

TPD

I live around the corner from a 24 hour shop so ill never really be stuck. The fridge can look pretty barren at times though - often only milk, condiments and alcohol in there.

Freezer is stocked with week/month old dinners and frozen veg though.

Ted_YNWA

Mackman. wrote:

But it's always a matter of "I don't feel like having any of that" so we go buy something in the shop.

This is me too

Your Face

I do one big shop a week and that keeps the house stocked. I hate going to the shops to get bits and pieces.

fussyonion

Yeah. My other half got me into the habit of creating a "store" in our cupboard so we've always got four of each (beans/peas/tomatoes, etc).

Always have meat & veg in the freezer, a pizza, got spuds, onions & carrots in the cupboard and endless supplies of tea and coffee.
I will never allow the cupboards to run bare.

Zxclnic

CountingCrows wrote: »

Eggs in the fridge. WTF!

Totally agree.
Then there would be no space left for your shoes.

Olishi4

Ye there's always something there but it's not always what I want at the time.

Pac1Man

I never know what to do with my leftover venison.

Chuchote

Always have food, buy the same more or less every week in terms of fresh food – meat, veggies, fruit, bread, milk, butter, yogurt – and bulk-buy brown and white rice (well, 5kg or 15kg at a time) and slabs of tins of beans, tomatoes, fizzy water, etc.

And if there's something especially nice, like the anchovy-stuffed olives in Lidl at the moment, and at a good price, I'll buy a slab of them too; after all, they're only €1.15 a tin and I used to pay €4.50 in Morton's for the same thing, so a slab of 15 tins costs €17.25. Bulk buy toilet paper and kitchen paper when they're cheap too – after all, they don't go off!

It's much cheaper to do this; nothing's more expensive than going down to the corner shop for the carrots you need and coming back with five overpriced bits and pieces. And if it's just a routine, well, you don't notice it.

MeatTwoVeg

I'd easily survive 2months between tinned, dried and frozen food in the house at the moment.
Which should be enough time for the worst of the radiation to dissipate.

meeeeh

We probably have enough cupboard staples to survive nuclear winter. I rarely run out of eggs and milk and we bake bread at home using bread maker. I usually do one big shop per week and then buy meat/fish as needed.

There are some waffles and some forgotten peas in the freezer and very little else. Basically we are well enough stocked but I could run out of some more perishable foods. Most often I find myself restocking on fruit because we eat a lot of it. Veg tend to last better so that is not so much of a problem.

Zxclnic

MeatTwoVeg wrote: »

I'd easily survive 2months between tinned, dried and frozen food in the house at the moment.
Which should be enough time for the worst of the radiation to dissipate.

They say if you wait long enough, a thread will arrive tailor-made for your username............btw, I'm still waiting.

Moo Moo Land

My brother-in-law keeps 2/3 months of long life food in his garage at all times e.g. rice, pasta, tinned cans, tea, coffee etc. He also has medicines.

He has being doing this since 2007 and is still convinced that the world financial system is about to fall apart leading to chaos and anarchy.

I think he's nuts but will rob him blind if the time comes

andekwarhola

Moo Moo Land wrote: »

My brother-in-law keeps 2/3 months of long life food in his garage at all times e.g. rice, pasta, tinned cans, tea, coffee etc. He also has medicines.

He has being doing this since 2007 and is still convinced that the world financial system is about to fall apart leading to chaos and anarchy.

I think he's nuts but will rob him blind if the time comes

Touching mix of lunacy and incredible optimism being convinced that the world will fall apart in chaos and anarchy but that 3 months of food will tide you over until it's back to normal.

Moo Moo Land

andekwarhola wrote: »

Touching mix of lunacy and incredible optimism being convinced that the world will fall apart in chaos and anarchy but that 3 months of food will tide you over until it's back to normal.

Yeah I know. I think he plans to hide out with his food stash and let people annihilate each other and then declare himself King or some such.

He's been watching too much Walking Dead I feel. At the same time he is utterly convinced it will happen and is addicted to survival programs (e.g. Bear Grylls).

OldNotWIse

I might wind up at times with no food that I fancy...as opposed to just no food. Never go officially hungry, there'd always be staples like rice and soup and a couple of herb plants on the kitchen window. oh and dried cat food - a nuclear war option I suppose.

There is enough food to feed a small army in our house.

Tilly

Yes i always have food in the house.

Letree

Moo Moo Land wrote: »

Yeah I know. I think he plans to hide out with his food stash and let people annihilate each other and then declare himself King or some such.

He's been watching too much Walking Dead I feel. At the same time he is utterly convinced it will happen and is addicted to survival programs (e.g. Bear Grylls).

As soon as the starving hordes found out moo moo land's brother has food in his garage he would be relieved of that food fairly sharpish. And he would have to hope he didn't suffer beatings in the process of losing his stash.

OldNotWIse

Surreptitious wrote: »

Everyone should have the option of dried or tinned goods, frozen stuff and a variety of fresh fruit/veg plus a fridge filled with fresh food plus breads/crackers/crisps extraneous munchy goods. Coffees, teas etc are also compulsory. Anything less is negligence.

How is that negligent?

livedadream

Melisandre121 wrote: »

How often do you find yourself hungry but with no food in the house? This tends to happen to me a good bit. I get a food shop, eat it all and then end up too lazy to stock back up. God I'd kill for a tuna toastie right now but I've no tuna.

often find myself hungry but theres always food in the house, even if ive run out of the fresh stuff theres always a can of soup or packets of rice somewhere. i know if i wont eat that stuff then im not really hungry

Yester

I cook way too much so the freezer is full of dinners. However after reading about Moo Moo Land's brother-in law I realise most of that food will be wasted when the enivitable comes. I'm off to stock up on dried and canned foods.

Walter H Price

Shop by the day instead of a bulk weekly shop so we always have enough there

snubbleste

Melisandre121 wrote: »

How often do you find yourself hungry but with no food in the house?
This tends to happen to me a good bit.
I get a food shop, eat it all and then end up too lazy to stock back up. God I'd kill for a tuna toastie right now but I've no tuna.

There you go, OP

Moo Moo Land

Letree wrote: »

As soon as the starving hordes found out moo moo land's brother has food in his garage he would be relieved of that food fairly sharpish. And he would have to hope he didn't suffer beatings in the process of losing his stash.

It's my brother-in-law, not a blood relation!

Yeah he told me in confidence but I imagine people would find it pretty fast.

He had a massive bag of rice, not sure where he got it but it must have been 20-25kg.

I always have food in the house, but I never do the 'big shop' that my Mum used to do when we were kids. I don't know anybody who does a massive shop like that anymore.

In fact, that change in shopping habits is one reason why Tesco is underperforming here and in the UK. They've over-relied on the massive outlets with trollies whizzing up and down the aisles, whereas your average Lidl and Aldi user will just nip in & out with a basket every few days.

I'm 29 years of age and have never pushed a shopping trolley.

With a greater reliance on healthy, fresh food, people seem to shop more regularly these days, and Lidl, in particular, has really exploited that change.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

There's always sufficient food in the house. Being in a rural area we can't run to the shop every evening. Freezer gets stocked with meat every month. Plenty of tins of fruit etc. At least a week's supply of bread in the freezer. I always ensure there are plenty of treats about too.

I fill the fridge with fresh food once a week from various local farmers markets and the supermarket, and top up during the week as needed.

There's always a choice of food available from the fridge and cupboard.

Estrellita

Always have food in the house, as much as my children protest other wise. I stock pile food basics such as pasta and rice, because you can make so many meals from them. I keep loads of packet sauces and jars of things so I can keep menus varied. I keep plenty of flour and other baking ingredients so I can make my own apple tarts, breads etc whenever I need to. It always makes me laugh when the children say there's no food, because all you need to be is a bit inventive and not lazy, of course

Sue Pa Key Pa

Always have tons of food in the house, rarely have anything I fancy eating at any moment in time

boobar

Like Morrissey when he proclaimed "I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear"....well he probably had clothes, although nothing fashionable....in the same way people would say there's no food in the house, yet there would be enough food in the freezer or cupboard to feed a family for days if not weeks.

Estrellita

boobar wrote: »

There would be enough food in the freezer or cupboard to feed a family for days if not weeks.

This very true. I think sometimes that people expect a meal to jump out of the cupboard for them. If you combine what you have in the fridge and the cupboards you would easily rustle up something nice.

Two eggs left in the box, an onion and a tomato in the fridge? Omelette. Flour, butter and a couple of bananas on the turn? Banana bread. There is endless possibilities with just a couple of basic things. I think people who say there is nothing to eat have never starved or been put in a position where they can't afford to buy what they want on a whim. I've never been penniless, but Ive been close enough at times. I was also brought up with a 'waste not, want not' attitude. Anything about to go off always has a use.

Widdershins

Just enough. Having too much seems to end in a lot of wasted food. I would never look at a full cupboard and decide I just didn't feel like anything there, then go out and buy even more food.