[Sca-cooks] Emergency food (was: kitchen tips)

[Beth Ann Bretter]

I try to carry an emergency cooler to every event, but that's just to make sure my 7 year old daughter has enough food that she's not constantly whining about being hungry.  I swear she's a hobbit from 6:00 in the morning until about 2:00 in the afternoon when she pretty much stops eating for the day.  My husband's even gotten her trained to ask for "second breakfast" and "elevensies".

We didn't eat feast at all for 6 years because of her.  We're only now starting to occasionally do so.

Lettice Peyton of Ashdowne 

> I can honestly say that I have never ordered a pizza or
> snuck out for KFC in 
> the middle of a feast.   I genuinely like to try the foods
> that the cooks of 
> the Outlands offer up.  (Caerthe did a wonderful 3 course
> luncheon last year, 
> IIRC, at a 12th Night.)
> 
> However, now that I have two children that are getting old
> enough to stay up 
> and eat feast at an event, I do carry "emergency
> food" with my feast gear.  
> Mainly, it is a loaf of homemade bread and some cheese or
> summer sausage.  Just 
> something that will keep the kiddos content and not
> screaming and ruining 
> everyone else's experience.  (THAT'S also the
> reason I haven't eaten many feasts 
> in the last 6 years!  I know my kids' limits.)
> 
> I wonder if other adults carry their own "emergency
> food" in case they feel 
> the need to "order in a pizza"?  I know some
> people around here carry olives 
> and other small nibbles in case feast is delayed for some
> reason.