Your Z-Day Meal
Your dwelling is safe for the moment. You and those in your Z.A. crew gather for the first of many meals in the new world. Are you going to be practical and just eat the bare minimum? Are you going to push the frozen food while the power is still on? I am interested what you choose for this occasion.
I am somewhat divided here. I come from a family where food is a big deal. Rationing will be an integral part of the rest of your life though. I think to keep spirits high and use perishables, I would probably do one last feast. I would cook Lasagna and let my fellows cook whatever their signature dish is. If we lose an extra day worth of food in the process so be it. As Woody said in Zombieland "It's the little things."
I am somewhat divided here. I come from a family where food is a big deal. Rationing will be an integral part of the rest of your life though. I think to keep spirits high and use perishables, I would probably do one last feast. I would cook Lasagna and let my fellows cook whatever their signature dish is. If we lose an extra day worth of food in the process so be it. As Woody said in Zombieland "It's the little things."
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Permalink Reply by Vicious Wolf on -
Well, I guess I would ration to begin with. The frozen stuff would definately go first. If I were to have a feast, I would do it when my crew is at a all time low. The feast would be a morale booster, or our last meal before a "suicide mission".
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Permalink Reply by the jack o' lantern on -
beans, they make you poo, make u strong, and make u smelly
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Permalink Reply by Tanya Rose on -
I'd probably start with the frozen foods. You kno, eat them before they go to waste. That isn't to say pig out and eat it all right away. Ration it definetly.
I'd probably save the others for later and eat as little as possible, yet just enough to keep myself strong. a feast? Hmm....maybe as a last meal or something. Not too sure yet.
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Permalink Reply by Wrecks on -
My major concern is that its hard to predict when you will have a last meal with your loved ones. I would be inclined to go all out the first time since any meal could be our last. A celebrate life sort of thing.
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Permalink Reply by ubduomk on -
I would have a feast. might as well enjoy the peace while it lasts and the fresh food before it goes bad. after this rationing would be come the norm for everyday but holidays and special events. so if the place was compromised the next day at least everyone could go out with at least one good post z-day meal.
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Permalink Reply by Edward "Zombie" Johnson on -
I would devise a rationing system, and then eat the fresh food first, saving the canned/non-perishables for later usage.
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Permalink Reply by Joey Skull on
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Everyone would gorge on everything that required power to prepare or preserve. Hey, the lights are still on, why not have a ball? Save the beans for later.
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Permalink Reply by Tori Luve on -
My first meal would be the last meal in the world as we knew it.
I'd involve everyone in my group in the meal making process so they will remember what life used to be like and the over abundance that we once had at our fingertips.
We'd take inventory of everything perishable, decide what could be dried, dehydrated or canned for later (like all just about everything as long as it wasn't spoiled - you can easily dehydrate frozen veggies & fruits, can meats ) and then we'd say a final good bye to refrigeration, toasting with a nice cold beer or soda pop.
Since we already don't depend on our fridge as our lifeline to food, if I opened it up right now, you'd find sodas, some beer, salad dressing, ketsup, mustard, a couple of avocados, tomatoes and head of lettuce. Maybe some thick cut bacon, eggs, butter and goat cheese.
I'd make up some great omelettes, cooked in butter with sauteed onion, fried bacon, cheese, the avocados (they are really hard to dehydrate and taste like crap when you can). I'd make a little salsa out of the tomatoes, ketsup and some dry cayenne pepper to go with the omelettes. And I'd make a lettuce, onion and tomato salad and use any mayo based salad dressings. (I can save the oil based since it doesn't HAVE to be refrigerated, contrary to the directions on the bottle)
I'd fry up the last of the new potatoes and we'd eat. Enjoying the niceities of fresh food, in the hopes that there will be more to come, but knowing that this may actually be the last - at least for a long time to come.
After we ate, since the power is still on (ours would be cos we live off grid already with 3 wind generators and a small solar system), we'd start dehydrating everything we could, including anything that was still in the garden.
We'd move the fridge outside to be used for winter storage of veggies, probably digging a big hole and putting it with the door up, at an angle, like a cellar door and then cover it with a tarp.
The only thing in my freezer is ice and 2 melted Freezie-Pops. We turn on the fridge only at night to run about 10 hours. The other 14, we move 2 - 1 gallon jugs of ice down into the fridge to keep it cool and conserve the number of times we open and close the fridge.
And, btw, frozen veggies/fruit is better for you than canned. So, it makes more sense to dry or dehydrate these foods than to gobble them down. Less weight too if you need to bug out.
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