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| Frozen Food: Located in the Dark Blue. |
I have highlighted on the map where
the Frozen Food section is located. It is along these areas that there were
doors full of frozen product. Because of the close dated product in the dairy
like milk and yogurt, it was fairly easy to condense product back into the
cooler where the back stock was kept and to optimize the temperature.
Unfortunately, there is too much product in the frozen food section to store it
back in the two freezers that we have. So the goal was to start condensing down
the doors as we used up the product and the target was to use up most of the
frozen food first because we didn’t know how long we would have electricity.
(Thankfully, we are ninety-three days in and we still have power.)
I know that this seems somewhat hard
to do but it is easier than you think. Making enough orange juice for 32
survivors for morning breakfast chews through the frozen concentrate pretty
quickly.
In the first three weeks, people were
actually getting sick of ice cream, so we just said screw it. We got to a point
where no one wanted another pint of Ben and Jerry’s. The general consensus was,
“Look if the power goes out and we lose all the ice cream, we will just lose
it.” But here we are in the third month of the siege and we are still slowly
chewing through things.
Now, I have mentioned that we are
afraid of Freon leaks compromising our entire system. So much like the other
departments in the store (Meat, Dairy, Produce), as the stock levels continue
to diminish we continue to move product into single doors.
We will use orange juice concentrate
in the morning. We will use frozen corn for the evening meals. A lot of lunches
consisted of Hungry Man TV dinners and such. So the levels of multiple doors
were all diminishing. So we just started condensing down the doors, combining
product from multiple doors into a single door. Then, once the doors get empty,
we go through and shut down the power and the Freon to prevent leaks.
It is still amazing to me at just how
much food we actually have on hand. I still think we could double the number of
survivors we have and we would still have more than enough food to cover all of
us. I still wonder about other people. I feel bad because there are probably
people out there that are scrounging for food and we have more than enough to
get by. There might be people out there right now that have to make the
conscious decision to brave the army of zoms out there to find more food
because they are close to running out of food (and energy). While we have a
committee that decides what is on the menu for the evening… I have mentioned
before that I consider myself very lucky to be where we were when this whole
thing collapsed.
I am going to go hug my kid…
