living without electricity

[Mortblanc]

It might turn out being as simple as the Victorian concept of a trip to the green grocer and a stop at the butcher shop on a daily basis to pick up the food needed for that day.

Not everyone in the Victorian era, or earlier or latter, kept a year supply of dried and preserved foods. That was almost always a rural concept.

Large villages and cities have always provided for daily needs for fresh foods with the presence of butchers, bakers, green grocers and specialty shops. I think the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans started that trend.

It has morphed into the concept of the supermarket in modern times, but the Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian city dweller had as little concept of where his daily ration of sausages came from as the modern man does.