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My Top 5 Foods that you need in The Zombie Apocalypse!
Scientists have infected monkeys with a crazy virus or a biological agent has been released onto a small Iowa town. The Zombie Apocalypse has begun. From 28 Days Later to The Crazies, The Zombie Apocalypse is all over Sci-Fi horror.
It’s a common theme that can have many different origins but one thing that is hardly ever discussed is, what food items would you need to survive in The Zombie Apocalypse?
For this Sci-Friday I am going to give you my Top 5 essential food items you will need to make it through The Zombie Apocalypse.
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Salt
Nobody thinks about the importance of salt when planning to survive in The Zombie Apocalypse. Salt does more than make your food taste good. You’re body needs salt to function properly, if you have too little or too much you will die faster than if a rampaging zombie were eating your brains!
Salt not only helps to maintain the balance of water and minerals in the body but it can be used medicinally to allow a wound to heal faster through a process called osmosis.
Salt can also be used to soak up bodily fluids from all of the zombies whose heads have been blown off. Think about it, in the zombie apocalypse there’s going to be decaying matter everywhere, the more liquid you can soak up the better.
Clean Water
When you’re spending all day fending off zombie attacks you’re going to need to stay hydrated. Finding a clean water source is going to be imperative. This may prove difficult if you’re constantly on the run, if that’s the case you’re going to need to find a way to purify water that may not be considered “clean” or “water”.
In The Zombie Apocalypse the water of Earth may have been tainted by radiation from a nuclear blast or by a chemical leak, you’re options may be limited, to say the least. You’ve also got to consider that there will be giant cesspools of rotting zombies contaminating some of your standard water sources such as lakes and streams so you’ll have to get creative. Good Luck!
Jerky
If you’re lucky enough to have seen The Zombie Apocalypse coming down the line, then you may have had the forethought to stock up on some more traditional emergency foods like beef jerky or jerky of any kind. Dried meats are probably the perfect food item for the situation you have found yourself in. Jerky is lightweight and portable which is great in an emergency, and this is an emergency!
Dried and cured meats not only provide your body with a much-needed hit of protein, but they can also help to maintain a healthy salt level. Jerky is also going to be one of the more tasty survival options. If you weren’t lucky enough to see it coming then hopefully you can kill some meat that isn’t too contaminated, no one likes tainted meat!
Pemmican
I can see this one making a big comeback in The Zombie Apocalypse, it’s the OG survival food, if it was good enough for ancient man, it’s good enough to survive the end of the world as we know it. Pemmican is a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries.
Much like jerky it is a calorie-rich food that is lightweight and non-perishable. I can almost guarantee whatever kind of apocalypse we have, you’re going to be seeing some pemmican, hopefully not too soon though.
White Lightning/Moonshine
The way I see it, if you’re stuck in The Zombie Apocalypse you’re either on the run, fighting rabid zombies, or you have some kind of base or fortification. Either way, you’re going to need some liquor around, the stronger the better. After all of the commercially produced liquor is gone, and it probably will be gone through pretty quickly, people will once again begin to make moonshine or as I like to call it, White Lightning.
This strong liquor can be used to sterilize wounds to prevent infection, to make cough syrup, or to numb you out while you get your leg amputated Civil War style, ouch!
But at the end of the day, you’re still in the fucking Zombie Apocalypse, life probably sucks unless you’re that dude who loves tragic, crazy situations. If the “end” is not your thing then you are going to enjoy some inebriation from time to time because you never know, this could be your last moment on earth.
This is a solid list that gives you a lot of options. Apocalypse approved!
Today I learned about pemmican for the first time.