If you had to live off just the food in your house...

[thechickenchick]

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Wait until he is 16!!

 

[JD4570]

Indefinitely. Have some food stored up,won't say how much because you shouldn't broadcast that info. We also raise veggies and hunt and fish. If necessary we could barbecue the coons and possums that try to get my chickens, yum yum.

I do like rattlesnake, tastes like... well, rattlesnake!

 

[HLAC]

I have several hundred winter squash out in the garden right now. I'd say we'd last for months just eating squash. I also have three freezers full of meat and veggies.
I'd probably have to cull lots of my laying hens if I couldn't buy feed. There's just not enough stuff to keep all of them going through the winter here if I couldn't buy feed. I think I could keep maybe 20 of them, so we'd still have eggs.

 

[PotterWatch]

I would run out of dried staples like flour, beans, and rice, long before anything else. We would have enough meat on the hoof (or chicken foot as the case may be), to sustain us for a very, very long time and enough pasture to sustain the animals without needing supplemental feed from a store. We also grow enough veggies and have seeds saved that we would be fine on greens for an indefinite time as well considering that we can garden here year-round. Of course, we would have plenty of eggs as well and again, enough pasture and forage to sustain our egg-layers that we wouldn't need to buy them feed. We even own part of the dairy cow next door so if we were still able to continue milking her, we would have milk, butter and even some simple cheese until she dries up.

 

[annaraven]

Just got a side of beef into the freezer. Have a bit left over of pork from last year's hog. Some beans and rice and flour... not enough but some. A bit of canned foods in the pantry. So, probably make it to Spring, and then hope the garden starts producing. And of course, supplement with eggs...

That reminds me - I want to stock up on salt. Can do a lot if I have salt in the house.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

I keep eyeing out the window - we have a deal with a hunter who has the same attitudes towards deer that we do, he hunts our land and gives us half of the meat. We pay for processing. We share with his family our fruit and nut crops. Thats how it works, when it works.

 

[Chinchilla2]

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He's the last of 3, the food consumption only goes up from here

Seriously though, if I could control him a bit I could probably last about 3 months. If it was just me and the hubby perhaps 4.

 

[mangled]

I'm a amateur couponer, so I've got a bit of a "food hoard" as my husband calls it. In canned and dry goods, we probably have a good year's worth. In the chest freezers, there's probably 6-8 months of meat and other frozen foods. I even have milk frozen. The woods are full of meat, as well, plus what I have canned and frozen from the garden this year. The chickens alone would keep us in meat and eggs indefinitely.

My husband is convinced that our supply chain is going to collapse in the near future. We're about a year away from self-sufficiency in the way of meat and dairy.

We go to the store once a month. I hate shopping and the store I shop is 25 miles away. When I do go, I'm the crazy lady with three carts and 200+ coupons. LOL


Blessings-
Em

 

[runsw/scissors]

Ditto! I don't live in town, however I do have neighbors that WOULD object (often and loudly) if I got any livestock.

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The never ending milk trip.......We should invest in a cow for the amount we go through!

I SOOOOO want to do this! Unfortunantly I live in suburbia and 1) There is no room for a goat and 2) there are laws against 'hoofed stock'. As much milk as we go through it would be worth it. Not to mention more fun than running to the grocery store every week with my 4 month old.

 

[kuntrygirl]

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How do you keep your potatoes, apples, carrots, etc from going bad? How do you preserve them? When I buy a 5 lb bag of potatoes, they will rot if I don't eat them within a certain time.

It takes me a long time to eat 5 lbs of potatoes.

Good idea with the buckets of flour and sugar? How long can flour last without having those little bugs getting into them?

First, you are probably buying last year's potatoes. Are you keeping them in the fridge, at about 45 degrees? They'll keep for months, if they are this year's crop.

No, I don't keep them in the fridge but I will now since I know they will last longer. Thank you very much for the tip.