How many of you have a year's worth of food?

**peanut** · 01-27-2011, 09:56 PM

I have to check on my stockpile again. DH's work is thinking strike again. Negotiations are not going well. They aren't discussing it yet...at least not openly, but there's been whisperings...

**krbshappy71** · 01-29-2011, 11:00 PM

I've got space, no money. TONS OF SPACE!! If I could sell space....I'd be rich, hahahaa! Ok just kidding.

I'm slowly accumulating a stockpile, nothing on the scale of other people here though.

**forHISglory** · 01-30-2011, 06:28 AM

Do you all tend to stock more in the freezer or the pantry? I've got both built up, but if electricity would fail, I'd lose a LOT of my stock.

**ladytoysdream** · 01-30-2011, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by forHISglory

Do you all tend to stock more in the freezer or the pantry? I've got both built up, but if electricity would fail, I'd lose a LOT of my stock.

I have 2 uprights. The plan was we bought a new freezer a few years back and the old one which is now 37 years old was supposed to be the back up unit. Used in the fall when we got a deer. Now both are full. Seriously thinking of getting the older one emptied. It has a lot of vegtables, and fruits, I should be canning. But not a lot of space in the house for a large quanity of canning jars. So I do as needed. Current project this week will be to unfreeze some fruit and to make 2 batches of jam because I just opened my last jar of homemade this morning.

If a short time power failure, we do have a generator. If the power failure is in the winter, I would just leave the freezers shut. They are in a unheated area, where it would stay cold. If power failure was of any length of time, I should have enough empty jars in storage to can what is in at least one freezer. I would start with the meat.

**peanut** · 01-30-2011, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by forHISglory

Do you all tend to stock more in the freezer or the pantry? I've got both built up, but if electricity would fail, I'd lose a LOT of my stock.

I use both. We downsized to a 7 cu. ft. freezer when the kids left home, so there really isn't much room there to freeze anything. And I have a cold room under the basement stairs where I store canned and packaged goods. I also have a big kitchen (12x12') with cupboards on all four walls. I store a lot in my kitchen.

But if the power failed, all my protein sources would perish. I usually cook my own beans and freeze them. I only have 2 cans of beans in the house. I don't worry about power going out in winter here. We all would just move our frozen stuff outdoors!

We live in the city so we aren't prone to the long power outages of our rural friends.

**Suprise** · 02-01-2011, 01:55 PM

I usually have a good stock of tomatoes because that is the canned item that we use the most. So I would say I have about 3 months worth of that. I would have to budget some money every week to stock pile more though. I have a cold storage that I love.

**shoiji** · 02-01-2011, 04:04 PM

Not a very large stockpile but enough to make people gasp when I show them. lol However with detergent and personal care products, yes maybe even two years.

**marjorie** · 02-01-2011, 05:14 PM

I certainly couldn't say we'd eat healthy for even a month yet, but I did just find out I won a case of oatmeal...

**divinemsn** · 02-19-2011, 05:51 PM

I have been working on putting together 6 months worth of stuff for our family. So far I have enough detergent, pasta, papergoods and HBA. I want to concentrate on stuff like cheese, meat and soda. Slowly but surely.

**greekislandgirl** · 02-19-2011, 07:22 PM

We are moving at the end of June and not using a moving company so our plan is to have everything used up by then, but that's still 4.5 months away. We definitely have enough to make it until then in cleaning and kitchen supplies, office supplies, and HBAs. For food, we have about 2 months worth of most things. Beans, rice, and pasta (most of what we eat) should last until we move.

Once we move, I hope we'll be living someplace for a few years (but we won't know for a while... my husband's work is weird like that), I want to have at least a 6 month stockpile, ideally 1 year. Our country is going through a major economic meltdown and a lot of people are going hungry already. I do want to be prepared as best as possible. We have economic, political, infrastructural, local agricultural, and other factors that are all going to make a LOT of people very hungry here for a few years.