ZOMBIE ATTACK! Dinner

I'm pulling out all the stops for this feast of a dinner.

DINNER

Dehydrated salmon with potatoes and dill sauce

Dehydrated mixed fruit and custard

Powdered red wine

Yummy, right?

 

So, let's tuck in.

The Mountain House salmon with potatoes and dill sounded like a dish that couldn't work well in just-add-water form. Guess what - I was right. Although I accidentally added too much water, the teeny pieces of salmon remained very chewy and some of the potato lumps tasted a bit dry in middle.

I was expecting a creamy sauce, but it was just generically salty, though a fine overall taste. A bit meh. God knows how something so thin has so many calories, but I guess the salmon is some much-needed protein after all those gels and blocks.

Ooooh! wine. Brilliant. If we can't go outside, at least we can get pissed, eh? The weird thing is that the powder has clumped. So although I mixed as well as possible and left it to stand for 5 mins, there are enormous, sinister lumps in the bottom of the glass.

The liquid I manage to slurp off the top smells yeasty, and tastes just about ok. A bit earthy and dungy. It's also pretty watery and doesn't have the authentic biting alcoholic tang, although it's allegedly 8%. I'd definitely wait till the pubs re-open after the apocalypse.

Sigh! The final dish of the day: Pack 'n' Go mixed fruit and custard. The 'fruit' is tiny bits of apple, candied citrus peel and raisins - and it's one of those 'just add water' jobs. So I do.

The custard has the right texture, but seems a bit floury, like uncooked batter again (see this morning's breakfast eggs …). It's so sweet it stings the back of the throat, but it's y'know, ok in a gloopy, settling-for-third-best sort of way.

So, that's it for ZOMBIE ATTACK day. Let me point out at this juncture that while I've been struggling with soggy wine clots and egg paste, Mr DDD has tucked into biltong and leftover jambalaya. Humph.

I've survived, but I really, really hope those zombies don't come back any time soon. Thanks for sitting through this with me, guys. Now I wonder what time Fuzzy's Grub opens for breakfast tomorrow. Mmm … fresh meat. (Did those zombies get in here after all …?)

More? Read about the rest of my day on emergency rations: Zombie attack! Breakfast, Zombie attack! Lunch, Zombie snack attack! and take a look at the British army multi-climate rations reviewed

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[RedHeadFashionista]

I spent a happy few years in cadets at school and I developed a genuine love for boil-in-the-bag army ration pack meals. Lancashire Hot Pot, eaten out of a foil bag, in the middle of a wood, often covered in mud, is a fond memory of mine.