IMO, no way this scales down to a single household - I'm chuckling right now picturing a knight and their family in a house-sized castle.
Another angle: if things get bad even just food wise, people who have nothing to lose will keep coming - starving people who will die unless they get to your resources.
To me prepping to survive by yourself is a dumb fantasy and a waste of resources that would be much better spent building resilient communities.