Making the Most Out of Food

I see this happen at work all too often: Someone makes a salad for lunch, forgets it in the fridge that day, then throws it out tomorrow because it got a little old and wilty. IDIOTS!

In the apocalypse, every scrap of food must be accounted for and consumed. When your leather boots start looking like a hearty meal, you’ll wish you had started prepping before the food trucks stopped rolling.

Most of us have a hard time gauging how much food they should buy and consume before it spoils. Food preservation methods aside, lets say your bag of salad has been sitting in the fridge over a week and you’ve noticed it starting to get dark green and slimy. Throw that shit in the freezer and use it in a stir-fry later. Spices and scrambled eggs make all your old salads delicious.

When you buy a head of lettuce or herbs and leafy greens, don’t immediately throw out the broken or yellow leaves. Freeze that shit for a soup later. Why the heck would you peel a carrot or potato? Slice it up and throw it all in. Broccoli stems are edible too, not just the crowns. Morning smoothies? Throw the whole goddamn apple in and stop wasting time and energy cutting out the cores. Energy is better spent killing zombies. When you haven’t eaten in days, you’d kill for an apple core!

I know what you’re thinking...”It’s not as palatable...it’s too tough on my bitch-ass taste-buds...I CAN afford to waste bits of food because of my great job in finance” BARF! Shred it all, blend it all, fry it all and suck it up!...and when that doesn’t work, hot sauce will. Your food should have mold growing on it before you throw it out.

Take these baby steps and change your lifestyle just a bit so you’re less of a burden on your survival crew when SHTF. Otherwise, I’ll make sure you don’t go to waste. Nom nom nom.

-Dom Etynkowski (theButcher)