We did all of that, too! Easily 6 days for us, too.
Dad got out the charcoal grill and grilled up a bunch of stuff that wouldn’t keep.
Sis & I pretended we were living ‘Little House on the Prairie’ but I wouldn’t trade living through one of their horrific winters for ours, that’s for sure! ;)
In my genealogy research, I learned my gr-gr-grandfather and family lived NINE years in a sod house on the Saskatchewan prairie in the 1860s and 1870s. I can’t even imagine.