Good morning, Happy Friday, and Happy First Friday of October!
It seems like just a few days ago we were beginning September and it's gone already.
I have a kind of survival question, I guess, for lack of anything better to call it. With winter coming and the occasional blizzard and winter storm, some people can go for a few days before their roads are plowed. And on the news we always see the mad dash to the grocery store for milk and bread when there's more than 3 inches of snow forecast for our area.
How long could you survive eating just the food in your house right now?
We could probably go 6-9 months, if we were really careful and if it was just the two of us. We have two freezers full (and we did get a generator to keep running them for a while should the power go out). I have some dried foods (including powdered milk and such) and canned foods, like tuna, Spam (yes, I do have Spam in the house), and such. I try to keep 100 cans of cat food in the closet in the basement at all times and just rotate the cans as we get more. (When I say that we're running low on cat food, that means that if we don't buy any, I'm going to have to dip into the 100 cans.) Even so, 100 cans will only last the clan a little over 3 weeks as they eat 28 cans of food a week. I keep gallons of bottled water and cartons of bottles of water on hand. With a little care, we could go 6-9 months, if we absolutely had to.....it might just be veggies and dried stuff at the end, but it's still something. The kids have often said that, if anything happens, they're going to do everything in their power to get to our house, so they don't starve.
How about you?
I have a kind of survival question, I guess, for lack of anything better to call it. With winter coming and the occasional blizzard and winter storm, some people can go for a few days before their roads are plowed. And on the news we always see the mad dash to the grocery store for milk and bread when there's more than 3 inches of snow forecast for our area.
How long could you survive eating just the food in your house right now?
We could probably go 6-9 months, if we were really careful and if it was just the two of us. We have two freezers full (and we did get a generator to keep running them for a while should the power go out). I have some dried foods (including powdered milk and such) and canned foods, like tuna, Spam (yes, I do have Spam in the house), and such. I try to keep 100 cans of cat food in the closet in the basement at all times and just rotate the cans as we get more. (When I say that we're running low on cat food, that means that if we don't buy any, I'm going to have to dip into the 100 cans.) Even so, 100 cans will only last the clan a little over 3 weeks as they eat 28 cans of food a week. I keep gallons of bottled water and cartons of bottles of water on hand. With a little care, we could go 6-9 months, if we absolutely had to.....it might just be veggies and dried stuff at the end, but it's still something. The kids have often said that, if anything happens, they're going to do everything in their power to get to our house, so they don't starve.
How about you?