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Zombe Apocalypse: Are you ready?

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    Are you ready for an Apocalyptic event? Or a natural
disaster. Two things happened recently that had me asking that very question of myself. One, I went through a small blizzard while traveling in Colorado where we weren't completely without food but really short. And two, my granddaughter Lily had to do a report on a disaster, natural or man made. Although she chose the Palm Sunday tornados of 1965 all of the disasters we looked at were unnerving.
     Now any one of these events could leave you without electric and searching for food.  In the case of the Colorado blizzard we were able to boil water and warm food on a stove top. Tornados are a little different. At best you may be left without electric and have to figure out a way to heat water. You may need to host other families or neighbors if you are spared and they weren't as lucky.
    Now I have a fairly sizable pantry and have plenty of food so  that if at home we would survive for a quite a while. I have also purchased some emergency provisions from The Patriot Pantry. The emergency provisions have a shelf life of 25 years. I decided to test some of the Patriot Pantry foods. To make the three meals I tested you just needed to boil water. First I made Granny's Potato Soup. Then Creamy Chicken Rice and Maple Oatmeal. I liked the Chicken and Rice meal the best of these. Lily asked if we could buy more of it, she thought it was great. The potato soup was decent but it got really thick. That might have been my technique and not the soup. The flavor was good. The Oatmeal is like any of the instant oat meals on the market.
    If you were actually experiencing an event I'm sure you would welcome all of these meals.
    If you have followed my blog you know that I like my canned meat. Especially SPAM. So my pantry and emergency provisions have plenty of SPAM included. I normally use the original recipe but recently a friend gifted me some of SPAM's flavored items. I will definitely be trying these. The same friend gave me a can of Spicy Corned Beef. I searched for a recipe that used this Spicy Corned Beef and found one on the Libby's site.
    The recipe was simply saute onions and peppers add the corned beef and continue to saute. Then add black beans and tomato sauce and heat. Donna actually liked this meal better than the Patriot Pantry Meals. This meal would do fine during any emergency or if you are short on time and need to hit your pantry for a quick meal.
    So choose some things for your own pantry and be ready for the Apocalypse. And don't be surprised if during some of these meals the Zombies try to join you!





   
   

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