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Food during Gustav....
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:16 pm
Hate to bring Gustav up....but what did everybody do for food, for the week or two without electricity.
I for one, didnt expect my electricity to be out for over a week and a half, and I completely ran out of food after a week. I was with 5 other people, so food went pretty damn fast. I had taken the gas out of my car to give to the people next door for their generator cause they were kind of old and I'm a good person. So I couldnt go to the store which was about 10-15 minutes away.
My other neighbor ended up going to Arzi's on Jones Creek and they got us 5 boxes filled with chicken and a lot of pita bread. And we ate that for 4 days. It was ALOT of chicken. PRAISE ARZIS!
And one thing good that came out of all this mess was me meeting and getting to know a lot of the people that live around us. People now-a-days dont know their neighbors. Im pretty good freinds with a couple of them now.
BOTTOM LINE....What did everybody EAT ?????
I for one, didnt expect my electricity to be out for over a week and a half, and I completely ran out of food after a week. I was with 5 other people, so food went pretty damn fast. I had taken the gas out of my car to give to the people next door for their generator cause they were kind of old and I'm a good person. So I couldnt go to the store which was about 10-15 minutes away.
My other neighbor ended up going to Arzi's on Jones Creek and they got us 5 boxes filled with chicken and a lot of pita bread. And we ate that for 4 days. It was ALOT of chicken. PRAISE ARZIS!
And one thing good that came out of all this mess was me meeting and getting to know a lot of the people that live around us. People now-a-days dont know their neighbors. Im pretty good freinds with a couple of them now.
BOTTOM LINE....What did everybody EAT ?????
This post was edited on 7/28/09 at 5:26 pm
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Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:20 pm to Ryan3232
BEER 24/7 and anything and everything that could go on the grill for a week. One night we cooked about 7 different animals. We had a group of about 5 or 6 that all stayed together and brought out all their fridge/freezer stuff.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:24 pm to DaBeerz
quote:we cooked a lot of sausage and chicken the first week on the grill, but we soon ran out.
anything and everything that could go on the grill for a week.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:25 pm to Ryan3232
I had frozen steaks that I would grill as they would thaw out had them in Ice chest.. After that there were enough places to go out for food.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:27 pm to Catman88
quote:Maybe after a week and a half, but I couldnt find anything after 5-6 days when I ran out of food. Cause FINALLY, the store opened up and some food places.
After that there were enough places to go out for food.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 5:31 pm to Ryan3232
cooked all of the ground meat i had on the side of the gas grill and tried to get creative w/ different ways of eating it
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:10 pm to Ryan3232
we threw whatever we could save in an ice chest with a bunch of ice and grilled it the first couple of days. After that we cooked a lot of boxed foods on the gas burner hooked to the grill at the in-laws (we stayed with them until they got electricity and then we borrowed their generator). We were out for almost two weeks as well, and eventually, we started eating out at McDonalds or whatever was open. Several people who had electricity invited us over to eat.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:11 pm to mmill32
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tried to get creative w/ different ways of eating it
Fork, knife, spoon. What am I missing?
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:20 pm to Python
Our power in Baton Rouge was back on after 3 days. Thank the Lord for my grandmother living in the same neighborhood as the VP of Entergy. But, in the meantime we ate all of the fish and deer meat we had in our fridge.
We lived off of Speckled Trout, Snapper, and Venison.
We lived off of Speckled Trout, Snapper, and Venison.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:28 pm to lsutiger_08
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Our power in Baton Rouge was back on after 3 days.
I live in shenandoah and my power was out for almost 2 weeks. WTF? You must live by a hospital or school...
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:35 pm to Ryan3232
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Food during Gustav....
Mididi, Ground Zero and Abe's BBQ in Clarksdale, MS. My evacuation spot. Also, opening weekend of MS dove season for some great hunting. Grilled dove breasts wrapped in bacon with a balsamic reduction. Sucks to be me.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:36 pm to Ryan3232
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Our power in Baton Rouge was back on after 3 days.
Tara.
I have an 80kw generator. My power was off for 7 minutes.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 6:44 pm to Martini
quote:thats a lot of power...
I have an 80kw generator.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 7:01 pm to Martini
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I have an 80kw generator. My power was off for 7 minutes.
Couldn't swing the automatic transfer switch, eh?
Posted on 7/28/09 at 7:02 pm to Ryan3232
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live in shenandoah and my power was out for almost 2 weeks
I live in Lake @ white oak and our was out 2 weeks as well. Lucky for me I had several friends that live all across BR and stayed with them at times. I ate a bunch of can foods. Thank god for a coleman stove...
Posted on 7/28/09 at 8:36 pm to Walt OReilly
We had a generator that ran our fridge and a small window unit in the bedroom. So we just ate regular every day food. Kids got a bit cranky b/c finding a store that had milk was hard. Our power was out 7 days and I live out off of S.Harrells Ferry b/4 White Oak Landing.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 9:12 pm to LuckySo-n-So
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Couldn't swing the automatic transfer switch, eh?
It's a tow behind that I use for business so no I can't make the automatic transfer but I have the transfer switch in place with locomotive cable. The 7 minutes was because really I had to go potty first. It has a 250 gallon diesel tank and burns less than .5 gallons an hour. Best investment I've ever made and I didn't say that until Gustav.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 9:38 pm to Ryan3232
I left the fine N.O. area and headed to Brusly to stay at a relatives house who happened to be out of town. His only instructions were to make sure that his spare freezer was one of the things that I plugged up to the generator if the power went out.
That sumbitch had enough meat to feed the neighborhood. Deer, sausage, duck, dove, steak, boudin, redfish, speckled trout.
Unfortunatly we only ended up staying three days total and just ate the stuff that we brought up in an ice chest. Burgers steaks and sandwhiches for the two days the power was out.
That sumbitch had enough meat to feed the neighborhood. Deer, sausage, duck, dove, steak, boudin, redfish, speckled trout.
Unfortunatly we only ended up staying three days total and just ate the stuff that we brought up in an ice chest. Burgers steaks and sandwhiches for the two days the power was out.
Posted on 7/28/09 at 10:26 pm to Ryan3232
Lost power for about 2-3 days in AP. Before that we had pita pizzas, burgers, biscuits, and basically every type food as normal. Having a gas grill and knowing how to use it as a oven is crucial. Frozen pizzas and pita pizzas are easy because te crust will be firm when putting it on the grill. We fed 8-11 people for every meal. If you can't use a coffee pot learn to make Lebanese coffee, stonger and better than anything else.
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