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About 3 weeks. I would say there is enough frozen and fresh vegetables, carbohydrates (rice, etc.), proteins (meats and legumes), oils/fats (including butter) to last for 3 weeks. However, I would run out of bread within 1 week. I suppose I could make bread from scratch if it was necessary.
Frozen meat - at least a month, maybe more.
Frozen vegetables - maybe 2 weeks.
Frozen roasted Hatch and poblano chiles - at least 8 months. (Until next season.)
About 3 weeks. I would say there is enough frozen and fresh vegetables, carbohydrates (rice, etc.), proteins (meats and legumes), oils/fats (including butter) to last for 3 weeks. However, I would run out of bread within 1 week. I suppose I could make bread from scratch if it was necessary.
It's not hard. I have dough rising on the counter as I write this. Making bread is one of the first things I do when a storm is in-coming, because we all love grilled cheese sandwiches. We're expecting snow tonight, so I've also prepared chocolate syrup for post-shoveling hot cocoa and soaked beans for chili.
There's been so much discussion of the stores shelves being denuded of bread. There's a simple explanation. Sandwiches are a very easy meal for those who are snowed in. It does not have to be refrigerated and can be slathered with peanut butter and jelly for a satisfying meal when the power is out.
About March 30th and I do not have a large freezer and a huge pantry. Some of the meals around day 25-30 might be a bit spartan but, oh well, you live with what you have.
In most of the places I have lived in, I could rely on my meighbors if i have any needs and they'll help us out a bit or visa versa. And since my neighbors almost always cook over a fire or in their woodburning pizza oven, I have no worries should the electricity go out for a while.
I would have gone grocery shopping before the storm hit. . . there was plenty of forewarning. And living in an extreme weather area, winter is no surprise and I keep supplies on hand anyway.
However; if I was incapacitated and couldn't get out. . the food I currently have on hand would last me approximately two weeks.
Scary how many people don't do this...in hurricane country too many people don't even have a weeks worth of food.
My mom used to shop like she was living with an army as she bought multiples of everything!! Our freezer was packed so full that she had to put a date on things!!
We had cabinets in our basement that held all the canned vegetables, etc., and they were full too!!
We even had a discussion once when in our basement during a Tornado Warning and how long we'd be able to survive down there if we really had to. My mom's reply was, "Ohhhh, quite awhile.." as she had a cookstove down there where she canned pickled and beets. Plenty of canned veggies in the basement cupboards. Not to mention the the two foot high freezer that was packed to the gills full of meat!!
LOL...I can't remember a time when I had to "date" something as it's pretty much gone the next week~!~
I have a chest freezer, so....months. I wouldn't be eating much other than meat after about 2-3 weeks, but....months. The dog and cats would also be sharing that meat with me. The biggest problem that I foresee would be the lack of cat litter....
If the power doesn't fail. That happened to us last year in Hurricane Iselle. 13 days with no power, we had a meat fest barbeque 2 days after the storm, sent the bulk of it home with friends, then threw out a few hundred dollars of steak, chicken and fish.
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