In the spirit of disaster preparedness and zombie attacks, I present to you this super-cool disaster planning tool. I’m not being end-of-the-worldish here, but I think this kind of thing is a good exercise that can bring to light some of the areas in which your household is disconnected with your community. What I want to know is where is the little zombie icon under the “What to do if…” section? What to do if… ZOMBIES!
It seems like when people start becoming aware of the problems with our current food systems, one of the first things they do is start panicking about zombies. When I lived in DC, I had a zombie disaster plan. I know I’m not the only one. I had a significant amount of food stored up, and my East Coast friends and I discussed how long we would wait for each other and where we would eventually try to meet up in the event of a zombie attack.
I ended up skipping one of the weeks of this challenge (preserving in vinegar), because I’m super disorganized these days. I didn’t have vinegar, my basil went bad, I ended up eating all my cilantro, etc. etc. The timing never ended up working out. But just so all of you know, you can preserve things in vinegar! Things like herbs (think salad dressing) and other veggies as well. I may end up getting to it later or I may not.
I’m so far behind on this challenge it’s not even funny. We’re in week four right now – preserving in booze – and I just completed the second task: preserving in fat. I could say that I preserved two different things using the first method, but that’s an excuse and everybody knows it. (Sour pickles and sauerkraut, btw.)
In the spirit of disaster preparedness and zombie attacks, I present to you this super-cool disaster planning tool. I’m not being end-of-the-worldish here, but I think this kind of thing is a good exercise that can bring to light some of the areas in which your household is disconnected with your community. What I want to know is where is the little zombie icon under the “What to do if…” section? What to do if… ZOMBIES!
It seems like when people start becoming aware of the problems with our current food systems, one of the first things they do is start panicking about zombies. When I lived in DC, I had a zombie disaster plan. I know I’m not the only one. I had a significant amount of food stored up, and my East Coast friends and I discussed how long we would wait for each other and where we would eventually try to meet up in the event of a zombie attack.
I ended up skipping one of the weeks of this challenge (preserving in vinegar), because I’m super disorganized these days. I didn’t have vinegar, my basil went bad, I ended up eating all my cilantro, etc. etc. The timing never ended up working out. But just so all of you know, you can preserve things in vinegar! Things like herbs (think salad dressing) and other veggies as well. I may end up getting to it later or I may not.
I’m so far behind on this challenge it’s not even funny. We’re in week four right now – preserving in booze – and I just completed the second task: preserving in fat. I could say that I preserved two different things using the first method, but that’s an excuse and everybody knows it. (Sour pickles and sauerkraut, btw.)
