... and found food that needs to be used twixt now and May, so DH and I are going to see how little we will spend this payday (we get paid every 2 weeks) by using the stuff we already have on hand.
We're thinking the only things we will need to buy are tp, cheese, pet food, and fresh milk. And the milk is a maybe cuz we have so much powdered milk. Don't know if I can convince the kids to drink it w/out adding some fresh whole milk to it (an old trick of my mom's), but we're gonna give it a try.
If it weren't for having so many elderly pets who need expensive foods due to allergies and health conditions I think with our stockpile we could easily spend no more than 50 bucks for this pay period.
What is the least amount anyone has had to spend for 2 weeks relying on stockpiles?
MZ

I've gotten by on about $45 one time. We ate "out of the freezer" meaning we used up all the stuff that used to kept getting pushed to the back. I like to do that every so often to keep things cleaned up.

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How may folks were you feeding?

For my big freezer we cram as much as we can into it in warmer months, and in the winter we can store stuff outside because it gets cold, and stays cold freezer cold for so long here. By spring we are usually trying our best to empty the freezer for warm weather produce and meats. I'm tired of it!
We just ordered a food dehydrator to try and cut down on some of the freezer space used.
MZ

I have probably done under $20 for the 2 weeks when my husband was laid off. We only buy milk and bananas, lettuce that sort of thing, whatever you really can't freeze. I have 2 freezers full and shelves to feed an Army, so it just takes careful planning to have healthy and balanced meals with your stockpile and to get it to stretch between those checks.

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I'm impressed!
MZ

We only have 3 people at home right now, and I buy my lunch (salad bar) every day - DH & DS pack lunch - and we usually eat out once a week and get pizza forDS once a week. Other than that, we could live off stockpile, pantry, freezer, etc for two weeks + about $30 for milk, eggs, lunch meat & cheese, fresh fruit, lettuce, and tomato. If I had to, that could be trimmed as well as we don't have to have fresh fruit or veggies.... Couldn't do it forever though - maybe four weeks top based on what is currently on the shelves and in the freezer....and I think they'd be pretty sick of pasta in one shape or form by the end of that four weeks!

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We could eat REALLY cheap if we only ate from our stockpile. I have a freezer full of Honeysuckcle ground turkey that I bought on sale for $1 a pound and lots of the Farmland bacon that I got for .50 a pound and lots of Farmland sausage for FREE. That being said we have no beef or chicken, so I do buy marked down beef, because we just can't (well we could if we had to, but we don't have to) when I find bargains or eek! buy full price (gee I hate to admit that, LOL) just to have some variety. We have tons of everything else in our stockpile like canned food, rices, pasta that type thing. So we could get by with just buying milk, eggs, cheese, some fresh fruit, veggies and bread IF we had to for at least 6 months, but the menus would become very boring. We would be eating alot of things with ground turkey/sauce type meals like: spaghetti, chili, Manwich, or breakfasts for dinner like eggs and bacon, sausage and eggs, which we do have those thins now, but we also have steaks once a week, pork chops once a week, throw a meat loaf in there every once in awhile, some baked chicken, some fried chicken, for some variety. I added the fruit and veggies because I know we wouldn't have enough canned to last that long. We have 3 people.

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Same here, pantry areas downstairs and up plus three freezers are full.

If you don't think you are going to use it all up, at least think about donating some soon to a local pantry. They really are being hit hard now and could use the extra items.

Oh, we'll use it all up eventually, just not for a long time.
I just realized when I inventoried the other day that there are things that need to be used up between now and May, so am going to give a try at eating only out of stockpiles and see how little I can spend on fresh produce and milk and such.
MZ

My daughter is moving into her own apartment so some of my stockpile will go to help her get started.

Right now we could live on what is in the freezer and on my shelves for at least two months if we had to. There are frozen veggies and fruits and canned fruits. But it would get old really fast LOL! We would have to have fresh eggs, milk, and bread other than that we could eat for a long time as we are only two people.

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