Originally Posted by bearisgray
I've thought about it -
is one of the assumptions that she/he/they still have a means to cook whatever?
When the pickings get really slim - the power and other utitlitieis get cut off.
My MIL told me that they went dumpster diving to eke out their food (about 1935)
There was a show on this a while back & it showed how much perfectly good food was taken from dumpsters. In NY there are "clubs" of people who have jobs & make good money & still go dumpster diving regularly for food & bring back all kinds of stuff. The one man on the show said that when he gets home he wipes down the food or containers/bags/boxes with mild bleach to remove any bacteria on the pkging & his family eats what they find & when he finds good stuff that he doesn't need (other merchandise) he sells it on Ebay, etc.