I need to read about this already, I only know about corona virus that it exists somewhere… I surely don’t worry about it but I never worry about such things, my life is stressful without that and I can’t do much about it anyway.
I always have enough food to last months. Most of them are carbs but well, it’s food. If I need it to last a year…
Well, we (a high-carber and me) surely would go (partially) with @Don_Q’s idea (and we would add lots of other things like 20lbs cocoa, 20lbs raisins, 10lbs xylitol to be sure, it’s very much but well, we have space and my SO uses it for nearly every meal) BUT as I need very low-carb to function properly and only do higher-carb if I totally must, I would do my best with lower-carb items. As much hard cheese as I can fit into the fridge, as much fatty meat as I can fit into the freezer and 200lbs peanuts, that should be enough for two (we usually eat less but it’s a staple item in this household and its importance would get bigger without enough vegetables and other fresh stuff. I don’t eat it anymore but I could, in small amounts. In emergency, I surely won’t worry about oxalates and some extra carbs).
20lbs of poppy seeds and walnuts, more sesame seeds, less flax seeds… Maybe the calories are too high now but let’s be safe.
Some coconut oil (we don’t need very much), 30lbs lard because I am paranoid, okay? I have space for such food.
Vegetables… I would buy and preserve some. I don’t have fridge/freezer space for them and they spoil super easily, usually, I don’t even have a nice cold and dry space. I don’t really need them but my SO does. Fermented vegetables galore and lots of my beloved pickles!
Some canned fish but really just a few cans. I don’t eat canned meat as I only buy meat from a farm (yeah, I am more relaxed with cheese but I am poor and the cheese I buy actually tastes great and I barely eat any as I do have problems with its origins. meat is different).
Eggs, my main food is problematic. I can store 250 in my cupboard for a month and that’s it. I probably would buy more, fry the yolks and put them into the freezer. Oh right, I would cook the meat too so it would be denser.
2lbs of heavy cream, maybe. And some instant coffee, spices, salt, even magnesium pills though I don’t eat any when I have meat. But I would have little meat. I don’t know how to can meat (I suppose, I could look it up) and I couldn’t buy much meat anyway. No, I don’t think a corona virus, whatever it is, could force me to buy much meat in a shop… Okay, maybe in the part where they say it’s from local farms and I either believe them or not… I probably would think hard about it if it’s a year. A few months are fine.
Except the tiny plus work with some vegetables and the raw fruits in the fridge - and the frying egg yolks part, it’s quite fine. It’s basically what we do anyway but in bigger amounts. We go shopping once per month except vegetables and other sudden necessities like sour cream (but that happens rare).
I have a few hundred jars full with fruits and some with vegetables and fried mushrooms.
Tap water is fine for me. If my well get serious problems, it’s game over for me. Just like lack of electricity.
We obviously need to take consideration what we are able or willing to eat in that situation. If I haven’t eat anything in weeks, I surely become less choosy but eating carbs is usually worse than not eating them. I need way more fat and protein if I eat carbs as well except if I so horribly overdo carbs that I get severe carb poisoning. Eventually, I get used to it so I simply feel unwell all the time but not acutely poisoned but for just 6-12 months, I can stock enough fat and protein.
My SO thrives on high-carbs and eat the same on a high-carb diet so the lots of rice and legumes work for him way better. Legumes have much protein so I could depend on them to some extent, I would be careful with peanuts though, never a big amount. I would buy many jars of green peas, my fav legume.
Just because there is a tough situation, I optimize for my health and well-being and wish to keep normalcy and I want to enjoy my food or not hating it, at the very least as it’s almost impossible to eat then.
It was interesting, the last time I thought about such things we bought meat twice a year and I ate an excessive amount of peanuts…
(I must try how many fried egg yolks fits into a 1 liter box :D)