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Living on an island in the middle of the Pacific, I really should stock up . . . right now, I have less than a week's worth of food stored (I could stretch for longer on what I have, but it would be somewhat uncomfortable).
If your island is Oahu, Prospect, and if it were me, I'd stock up for well over a month and not tell anyone you had it. Overall, Oahu is about three meals away from starvation. However, when you factor in the amount of tourists who have zero food stored, large portions of the island can reach starvation levels within one meal if something happened to the supply lines. And the supply line is about 2,500 miles long.
If you're in a condo or apartment building, then your only stored water would be what's in bottles or the tank of the toilet. If you're in a single family residence somewhere with a standard gas or electric water heater, then you'd have about twenty to fifty gallons of water in the water heater automatically stored. Seawater in a black container with a sheet of slanted glass for a lid can create fresh water condensate dripping off the edge of the glass for extremely limited amounts of fresh water if supplies get critical.
As for us, we don't keep anywhere near the amount of food we used to. There used to be about a year's worth or more around here, but now we're down to about four or five months worth. I can ramp up garden production in that amount of time if necessary and we have 365 gardening days around here.
There is a circuit on the PV system which powers the refrigeration during the daylight hours even if the power grid goes down, so we've got refrigeration power. Got enough rainfall to live on catchment if we had to, as well.
If your island is Oahu, Prospect, and if it were me, I'd stock up for well over a month and not tell anyone you had it. Overall, Oahu is about three meals away from starvation. However, when you factor in the amount of tourists who have zero food stored, large portions of the island can reach starvation levels within one meal if something happened to the supply lines. And the supply line is about 2,500 miles long.
If I recall, Oahu has enough food on Island for 3 days.
Now add to that what happened when we had a 6.8 earthquake. No power for 24 hours. No cell phones. And we were a couple hours from the water plants shutting down. I'm not sure if much has changed in the decade since.
Store your food island peeps.
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I'm not a big stockpiler. I buy groceries once a week every Sunday, so 1-7 days, depending on what day of the week it is. But if you include canned goods, etc, hubby and I could survive for about 2 weeks, maybe 3. But without fresh food and fresh milk, I wouldn't be happy about it.
I like you already By the way, how is the fish from Costco where you are? Generally fresh/high quality?
lol.. thank you
We do like the quality of the fish from Costco but I have to confess that I'm not a fish connoisseur. As for freshness, i would say seems fresh when we buy it but then we freeze it and slowly but surely take all the freshness away.. But for a zombie apocalypse.. will most definitely do
I have enough for 10 -14 days, plus a box of pancake mix and 5 lbs of flour for bread making. But it really depends on what day of the month you ask me.
Food stamps go on my card on the 4th and I shop between the 6th and the 10th of the month. I usually get a whole months supply of food at one time because I am portioning out my meals and benefits for the month. At that point I can say I have enough food for a month but towards the end, the food is mostly running out. Most of the time my meals come out even with little to nothing left over. I rent a small room with a kitchenette and I have no room to store more groceries if I wanted to. There's no place to put a generator, not that I could afford one anyway. I keep 2 1/2 gallons of water in the fridge all the time.
August has been a little unusual in that I had so much food left over from July (good sales from the stores over the 4th), that I splurged a little this last month on some stuff I usually can't afford and I actually made three trips to the grocery store to only replenish what I already had. In fact, tomorrow I plan to go and get 5lbs of potatoes and a few other things that will give me an additional 5 - 6 days of food.
September will be another good month for sales because of Labor Day being on the 5th.
If your island is Oahu, Prospect, and if it were me, I'd stock up for well over a month and not tell anyone you had it. Overall, Oahu is about three meals away from starvation. However, when you factor in the amount of tourists who have zero food stored, large portions of the island can reach starvation levels within one meal if something happened to the supply lines. And the supply line is about 2,500 miles long.
If you're in a condo or apartment building, then your only stored water would be what's in bottles or the tank of the toilet. If you're in a single family residence somewhere with a standard gas or electric water heater, then you'd have about twenty to fifty gallons of water in the water heater automatically stored. Seawater in a black container with a sheet of slanted glass for a lid can create fresh water condensate dripping off the edge of the glass for extremely limited amounts of fresh water if supplies get critical.
As for us, we don't keep anywhere near the amount of food we used to. There used to be about a year's worth or more around here, but now we're down to about four or five months worth. I can ramp up garden production in that amount of time if necessary and we have 365 gardening days around here.
There is a circuit on the PV system which powers the refrigeration during the daylight hours even if the power grid goes down, so we've got refrigeration power. Got enough rainfall to live on catchment if we had to, as well.
I am on Oahu and will be doing better! I just bought a 30 pack of bottled water and will buy additional water each weekend until I'm at a decent level. I'm also going to stock up on some additional canned food items . . . I'd eventually like to have enough food for at least a month. Nothing glamorous/fancy . . . just enough to get by and remain healthy. And I'm telling no one! Nor would I make any foods that carried a strong order/indication that I'm eating if something did go down!
Also, I'm in a condo, which makes the water issue even more important for me.
We do like the quality of the fish from Costco but I have to confess that I'm not a fish connoisseur. As for freshness, i would say seems fresh when we buy it but then we freeze it and slowly but surely take all the freshness away.. But for a zombie apocalypse.. will most definitely do
Most definitely! And good to know. I'd imagine that the fish supply would differ by Costco location, but your review certainly doesn't make me less likely to try things out at the Costco by me; I'll probably look into sometime this weekend.
Depends on how you count. We could probably eat tomorrow and the next day with minimal creativity. If civil war broke out overnight and Whole Foods closed it's doors, God forbid!, we'd probably survive for a month or so stretching out raw calories stored in the pantry We tend to pick something up almost every day, even if it's just fresh broccoli or something.
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By the way, how is the fish from Costco where you are? Generally fresh/high quality?
We tend to pick something up almost every day, even if it's just fresh broccoli or something.
