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Living alone I don't tend to stock up. I buy groceries every few days as I need them. That being said I would be the first one in the grocery store if I heard warnings like the population back East received. If I couldn't go for some reason I could eat peanut butter and crackers for quite some time!
Well, maybe not, but at least a month or two. Two refrigerator freezers and a lot of home canning.
It might not be good food, but I could survive.
That was why I said mine was about 2 weeks. I think the days after that would be a big meager or some strange meals, but I may have another week or so.
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.)
Gotta love that. I've used up all my roasted frozen jalapenos, but still have a few batches of hatch left till next season. I eat peppers in most things I make.
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.
But in an ice storm, you could probably put your frozen food outside until the power came back on.
I have at least a month's worth of food here. After a month, we'd be scrounging a bit but we'd still be able to eat. I go grocery shopping every two weeks but sometimes I'll skip and use up more of what we have.
I just occurred to me that this group may not be representative of most people. Its the food forum so maybe its people that like food more and they keep more of it around.
But in an ice storm, you could probably put your frozen food outside until the power came back on.
Hmm, I have yet to see an ice storm in Hawaii
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