food? What food?

the cook arrived, and said the store that bakes and sells "pandesal" (small rolls) was closed, and the entire palenke is closed (it is prone to flooding, and I'm not sure the sewers are finished so it tends to flood).

Well, we still have electricity and as my husband told me: I'd always have rice to eat... except Chano said he doesn't have any more stored here to eat.

Oh well: if worse comes to worse, we always have the koi and talapia in the fountain/fishpond to eat. (just joking)...

No, we won't have to eat George the killer labrador, but you can see why poor people in the past traditionally ate dogs in times of food shortages. (and not just here: One of our German sisters joked that at the end of the war, when Hamburg was badly bombed, all the dogs and cats disappeared. Duh.)

I'm joking of course: The palenke is closed, but will probably reopen when they clean it up (the new "wet" palenke with fruit/veggies/meat is open air, but about 3 feet above street level so should be okay), and the other food stores will open later, so there is always corned beef, spam, and fish (dried and canned).

and we still have frozen food in our fridge.

And we just harvested three bunches of bananas from our garden.

One problem with eating locally is that we don't store food: the cook buys it fresh every day.

so in emergencies, we tend to have to scrounge for food, whereas in the USA I always had a week of frozen food and lots of canned food and pasta/rice and even potatoes stored away, because I only shopped once a week.