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ben_w a day ago

Two weeks of food shouldn't be hard for most people on this forum. There's a lot of people whose financial situation is so permanently on edge that they can't do that kind of preparation for a healthy balance diet*, but for everyone here, two weeks should be fine.

IIRC, Mormons store a few months stockpile as standard.

* For an unhealthy diet, my university meal planning for a significant fraction of each semester was two large bowls of cereal in the morning and ramen noodles for dinner. I didn't realise how far below my caloric requirements that was until comments on this forum many years later. But that cost 50p/day in the UK in 2004, and if you're consuming 500ml of UHT milk/person/day then the six litre multipack one person can lug up a hill with no car will last 12 days before needing replacement, while dried grains and cereals like oats, rice, etc. are even easier to stockpile.

from-nibly 21 hours ago | parent [-]

Not everyone I know has months of food storage, but I know a couple who lost their job during the pandemic and it helped them get through that.

Food storage is not just for apocalypse type stuff. It's for what the heck ever.