How many people could go a week without food and not freak out and start killing others or breaking into stores?

Are you kidding? I think there would be problems if the cable was out for a week....

Within a week without food you won't have the energy left to do anything you fools.

Nobody will make it over 5 days without having to do whats nessesary to survive especially those with children to think about.

Get a grip!

It's the sick folks who will go first. We have a renter who is 250-300 pounds. We worry about how the hell we would get him out of the place if shtf. He is diabetic. It'll take several people to get him out. That's one of my biggest worries about shtf, seriously.
And, some Family members on meds. Without them, they're probably going to go mad. It'll be like having rabid dogs all around you when the mental folks start going off their meds.

Diabetics that need insulin will die pretty quickly. And lock up those who can't get their meds. So many people on these psych meds. Now that is scary. People take them like they are candy. I already told a few of my friends jokingly that they will just have to be tied to a tree until they go through withdrawals. They laugh. sort of.LOL

You are absolutely correct. My Family has been in a bind for the last several months. Because of this, we have been eating mostly veggies from our garden. We've lost a lot of weight, however, I really, really wish I could buy some of the convenience foods and snacks I used to. It's tough, very tough.

Have a good friend that's like that...5'7", 240, heart valve, bad knees (duh), and he eats enough for at least 2 twice a day (plus snacks).

He would never make it in a SHTF scenario...and I would never give him access to my preps as he would eat them all...

Kids are tougher than you give them credit. This is your hang-up, not theirs.

If there is a little food, then you give it to the kids. Duh.

What is the alternative? Go out breaking into stores and then they have no dad at all....

true,hunger can easily go.i survived for a year on pretty much just loads coffee,which had pint milk a day,and 2 or 3 spoons of pasta. i'd had a stroke 2 years back,lost sense of taste and smell,so food just tastes like cardboard,which is why I live off esspresso's and cigars,things strong enough to taste slightly.strangly,energy shot up,arthritus disappeared.

How many people have never missed more than one meal their whole life?

And these people and their screaming kids will die...

Are you kidding? I think there would be problems if the cable was out for a week....

That comes from improper diet. This can be turned around with a diet of fresh fruits and vegetables.

That is no excuse, just another cop-out...

Change your diet. How many are willing to do that?

This is why it may be necessary to go for several days without food until many have either died off or been killed and some form of order has been created.

Plus, you may have to walk out and leave everything behind. Who can carry a weeks worth of can goods with them? No one...

Knowing how to fast is an asset. Plus, it's good for you.

Ramen noodles. You can put a weeks worth of calories in a large ziplock bag. That being ramen noodles and they only weight 3 pounds.

Ramen noodles have enough energy and calories in them to sustain you believe it or not.

Buy 25 of them and take out of the package and crush and fill a large ziplock bag with them and then put the pouches in the bag.

Increibily these will sustain you.

A top survival guy worked it out and they even beat MRE"S for calories and cut down on the room needed for them.

Ramen noodles are cheap and light. A months of of food in 3 ziplocks weighing only 12 pounds.

Everybody and anybody can do and carry this. in a bug out bag.

Ramen noodles. You can put a weeks worth of calories in a large ziplock bag. That being ramen noodles and they only weight 3 pounds.

Ramen noodles have enough energy and calories in them to sustain you believe it or not.

Buy 25 of them and take out of the package and crush and fill a large ziplock bag with them and then put the pouches in the bag.

Increibily these will sustain you.

A top survival guy worked it out and they even beat MRE"S for calories and cut down on the room needed for them.

Ramen noodles are cheap and light. A months of of food in 3 ziplocks weighing only 12 pounds.

Everybody and anybody can do and carry this. in a bug out bag.

Here. I have chickens at home.

I went 17 days no problem

As a white kid growing up in a trailer park with a crazy mama, I was hungry more often than not. The longest I ever went without food was four days. I did not kill anyone or steal. Hunger was pretty much a constant my entire life until I moved to California at 24.

The poster that said you really do not feel hungry after the third day is correct. A more precise answer is that once your body becomes accustomed to hunger, it's really not a big deal.

The majority of American's would freak. They probably have never felt true knawing hunger like I felt as A kid. Could I endure it again?

Yes, without a doubt, but unlike my Mom I would rob,steal, and fight to insure my kids did not.

Freaking out, killing people. and breaking into stores after only one week doesn't have anything to do with hunger, it has to do with a lack of moral fiber to behave yourself no matter what. Crime is not caused by economic realities but by immorality’s exposure to opportunity. Most Americans during the great depression didn't freak out, but then again, America use to be referred to a "Christian nation". We were more moral back then.

Thanks to Obama and others like him, the public has been turned away from the whole idea of morality for morality's sake. Obama and Co. have told the sheople masses that they can't do anything on their own but deserve what other people have as a "right".

John Adams responded to a question about what kind of constitution had been given to the American people with this. "The constitution was written for a moral and upright people and is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other." Taking his observance into consideration, you can expect immoral people in places that are already falling apart like Detroit and Chicago to turn into bunch of savage animals. Traditional moral Americans will simply make due with what they have for as long as they can because that is the right thing to do.

Take a nap.

So true. And anyone can afford them.

Oh God, I couldn't imagine eating that fat fucker, yuk.