How long could you go without food from home?

[MMM]

How long do you think you could live in Japan just on Japanese food? How long could you go without pasta, hamburgers, or whateverare your staples at home?

[JayT]

I could eat カツカレー every day.

[Tsuwabuki]

I do eat curry very often. The answer though is... maybe a week? I mean it's not like Japanese grocery stores lack what I would eat in the States... O_o

[SSJup81]

Originally Posted by MMM

How long do you think you could live in Japan just on Japanese food? How long could you go without pasta, hamburgers, or whateverare your staples at home?

I could probably go easily without, as I rarely have stuff like fast food in general.

[Tsuwabuki]

I think he meant more than that, Jup. I don't go out that much, but I certainly use western ingredients. Going 和食 all the time would be a pain in the rear.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by SSJup81

I could probably go easily without, as I rarely have stuff like fast food in general.

I didn't necessarily mean fast food, but the food you normally eat.

[Firebird]

After spending a year in Japan i know that i can live without any western food for about 1 month. After that i really wanted to eat some food from home. Even so i like Japanese food, i feel like i need some western food once in a while. The longer i stayed in Japan the more i wanted to eat Western food.
It wasnt so bad in Korea because their style of food is quite different from Japanese.

[Yuusuke]

I'm so used to my moms cooking that I think i could only do a week. >.>
other peoples food regardless of what country I am in is just not the same.

[Columbine]

I usually do quite well; I guess before I'm really craving something English, about a month. Depends on how well everything else is going. I eat a lot of asian food as a matter of course anyway, so the 'change' doesn't bother me. I guess I used to make things like risotto and roast chicken once or twice a month and go for pasta when I was feeling too lazy to do anything more adventurous. It took me a much longer time, about 6 months or so, before I really hit the cravings for a bottle of decent wine and some non-plastic cheese. Oh and the lack of proper sausages makes me sad.

Tea however, is a different story. I think I got about a week before I was e-mailing home asking for proper tea because all I could find was Lipton's yellow label *blech blech ptooey!*, or 10 Twinings tea bags for something ridiculous like 400 yen D: Definitely something I will take with me if I go out to Japan again.

[SceptileMaster]

I haven't tried it before, however I don't think it's too much of a problem. However we all know that not even Japanese people eat purely Japanese food all the time. For example, I live in the UK and eat as much foreign food as British food. On just Japanese food I can imagine maybe a couple of months (but of course that is just a guess). But I'd have no problem going forever if there was other food every so often.