Oh, I can make a joy out of such a lifestyle. I'm anchored at home anyway, with a disabled brother and a 95-year-old Moms who requires food preparation and supervision. If something happens to me, just for a visit to the ER and possible hospitalization, they are S-O-L.
So I think of that scene with W. C. Fields: "It's not a fit night for man nor beast . . . " Or -- the Antarctic team in John Carpenter's "The Thing". Nothing like having a great library.
The logistics of "stocking up for the Big Freeze" is a nice challenge. It makes sense to pay the Insta-Cart charges for a large order. But you can't get some things through Insta-Cart that make life more civilized, like bottles of lemon-extract for the espresso, or enough beans to keep brewing it. I should pursue online possibilities, nevertheless. Freeze quarts of milk! Get dried banana chips, while choosing fruits that last longer like apples, pears, etc. My brother is a maintenance drunk, so I got him four 36-packs of canned Budweiser. Bread? It gets stiff and stale. I discovered we'd overstocked with flour, and I have yeast, baking soda, etc. If I can make my own pizza dough from scratch, I can bake bread.
Buy lots of potatoes! Wash them -- and the fruit -- in 50% white-vinegar to stifle the mold. A spare refrigerator is a god-send. I'd built a wine-chiller from a top-loading freezer and a Johnson digital temperature control, and I've got bottles that are 10 or 15 years old -- enough to get the crew of an aircraft carrier roaring drunk -- well -- almost. We really stocked up on soft-drinks, but Bro makes them disappear almost as fast as the beer.
And don't forget to get a lot of onions and fresh garlic . . . You can freeze your shrimp, your catfish filets and salmon burgers. Never short yourself on beef or pork-butt-roast . . . Freeze several sizes of tortillas . . . . The PF Chang dinners are absolutely necessary, and a large bag of rice will go a long, long way . . .
Freeze the friggin' Cheese! If you like your hot oatmeal, don't forget the instant grits. Buy 24-packs of eggs -- they'll last two months in the refrigerator . . .
It's Sergeant Preston of the Yukon!