๐ŸŒฝ ๐Ÿฅ˜ ๐Ÿ— Prepper Cook-Off Challenge ๐Ÿ˜… ๐Ÿคข ๐Ÿคฎ **Updated Rules**

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Hey Everyone, I am excited to present to you the Prepper Cook-Off Challenge. Test your cooking skills by trying to prepare the most palatable meal from two random long-term storable food items.

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Many of us in the Homesteading Community have prepping tendencies so I decided to come up with a challenge that plays off of those habits, and requires both luck and skill. This challenge will be a fun test of your ability to utilize storable items in a SHTF scenario. If you aren't into prepping, that is OK you might still find this entertaining.

The Prepper Cook-Off Challenge was partly inspired by @lorgnigel's Interactive Battle Tournament which is a fun Steemit based RPG that, I feel, is great for community involvement. One element of the game is random dice rolls which I decided to incorporate into this challenge also. Registration is still open for IBT#5 as of writing this post, if you are interested.

The Prizes

For Round 1 of the Prepper Cook-Off Challenge I will be giving Away 20 SBI (Steem Basic Income) shares: 10 to first place, 7 to Second place and 3 to third. I will also give a 100% upvote to all valid entries.

What is @steembasicincome? It is a program where you sponsor people by buying them shares. Both the sponsor and the sponsored get a share which provides continued upvotes to member content.

Learn more about Steem Basic Income.

I will be doing a follow up post to announce the winners and ask for feedback on how to make the Prepper Cook-Off Challenge better. If you would like to see prizes other than SBI, proposing it at that time would be a good idea.

The Scenario

In the near future, a massive EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) from the sun has knocked out the electrical grid and the world has devolved into chaos. Being a Steemian, you and your group are more prepared than most but after many months hunkering down you are nearly out of food and are forced to scavenge the nearby buildings for supplies.

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You are facing a dire scene with almost every building already ransacked and picked clean of food. You persist in your search and are eventually rewarded. Going through the cupboards of one kitchen you find 2 items that fell behind a lazy Suzan and were missed by previous scavengers. Not much, but you also have 1 item and some spices left at your secret lair. You must now combine these items into a meal that won't cause you and your fellow survivors to gag or die of heartburn.

How to Enter

Updated, added rules 7 and 8.

1. In the comments section declare that you are entering and summon the random dice generator by mentioning @rolltwodice in the your comment. Match the dice roll to the list below to see which items you found.

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I have tried to keep this challenge as inclusive as possible and realize that some participants may have dietary restrictions. If you do, I will provide a suitable substitute but you have to declare the restriction before you roll. If, for example, you are vegan and roll a 4 on Dice#2 you would get a can of coconut milk instead of evaporated milk.

Dice 1

  1. Can of beans in tomato sauce
  2. Can of diced tomatoes
  3. Dry rice (1 cup)
  4. Dry macaroni noodles (1 cup)
  5. Can of fruit cocktail
  6. Dried apricots (1 cup)

Dice 2

  1. Can of mushrooms
  2. Can of kernel corn
  3. 1 cup flour (or gluten free alternative)
  4. Can of evaporated milk (or Coconut milk)
  5. Rolled oats
  6. Peanuts (1 cup)

2. After thinking about what you want to try making with the items you rolled choose your 3rd item (the one you had at your lair) by declaring it in a reply to your first comment. This item can basically be anything that can be stored without freezing or refrigeration for 6 months or longer. Quantities are to be 1 can or 1 cup if the item is a dry good. Hopefully this will allow you to make the first two items complimentary.


3. Create a post where you describe what and how you would cook your meal. It could be one dish or two or more. It is up to you as long as you stick to your ingredients.

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If you actually make your meal and take pictures. You will have a much better chance of winning. If you choose to only describe the meal and cooking steps I still expect a decent post. I reserve the right to refuse entry of low effort posts.

Cooking oils, sugar, salt and spices are permitted but they must be used in a reasonable amount. You can't use so much that they become a main item.

** Updated for better clarification. **

  • Herbs are fine as long as they are dried. No fresh ingredients. They have to be storable.
  • Stock cube is fine.
  • Wine, hard liquor and vinegar is fine but keep the combined liquid condiments to a shot glass worth. The idea is that they don't contribute much to the meal other then some flavor. Once again they need to be shelf stable.
  • If it isn't obvious water can be used in any quantity.

4. One of your tags needs to be #preppercookoff so I can find all the entries.


5. Mention and link to this post in your entry post.


6. You have until May 3 at 11:59pm MST (UTC -7) to submit your entry.


7. If for some reason you really don't want the items you rolled you cannot re-roll but you can trade them if you can find someone to trade with. You must trade both items, you cannot trade one or the other that would make the challenge too easy!

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Remember that you are allowed to select a third storable item of your choosing and use spices. You may be able to get creative and make poor item combinations work.


8. If for some reason you cannot acquire the types of ingredients on this list let me know before you roll and I will work with you to come up with alternatives. Then you can roll and participate in the challenge.


The Judging

I will be picking the 3 winners for this Prepper Cook-Off Challenge. I thought of maybe having people upvote entries but it seemed too easy to abuse and unfair to newer Steemians that aren't well known yet.

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I will be judging based on a number of factors as follows:

  • Overall quality of post.
  • Whether the meal is described or actually made.
  • Was the meal eaten (photos required ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿคข).
  • Difficulty of items rolled.
  • Creativity of the food and how it is prepared.
  • Overall effort level.
  • Presentation of the meal.

As you can see, the judging criteria is highly slanted in favor of those who actually make an effort to cook the meal!

Conclusion

Hopefully, that all makes sense. If not, I will be participating for fun so you can always watch and see what I or others do. I am hoping to see a lot of friendly competition and interaction. I am sure there will be some interesting ingredient combinations. Time to get cooking everyone!


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Thanks for reading everyone! Please upvote, follow, and resteem to support this work. As always, comments are welcome.

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Ok were in but its not fair for everyone else because we are seasoned preppers. @rolltwodice

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On my third ingredient is Sweet-n-spicy Beef Jerky. The Mrs is going to roll as well and we will make both dishes. It will be some good practice for us. Do we have to use our prep cooking tools as well? Cook it down by the pond?
We had a Bobcat snag a chicken Wednesday, those critters are fast.
I am not sure where I can find a can of organic mushrooms we have plenty of organic 100% grassfed beef and organic macaroni stored now. We never eat mushrooms so it is the part we wont want to eat.

Well played on the ingredients Sir! I can't wait to see the finished product.

If you cook it using your prepping gear or in some other creative manner you will get a higher score.

The organic mushrooms in a can might be hard to find but I am sure I have seen them. They will probably be pricey though.

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All certified organic food is frigging pricey! Its some crazy stuff that a farmer who uses no pesticides or conventional methods has higher cost than a farmer who has to buy his seed from a multinational company and buy herbicides and pesticides?

It has to change over time, after more farmers get it. When we first converted to 100 % organic diet our grocery bill tripled.
We have been growing everything and raising our chickens beyond organic and I don't see the big difference in labor. But the cost of natural pesticides and feed for the animals is astronomical. When we sell a dozen eggs for 6 dollars we only cover the cost of feed.

The biggest win factor is we almost never get sick. The last time we all got sick is when we bought a bunch of conventional food in trying to prep our bodies to live in a 3rd world country for 6 weeks. We all got sick with in two days and it was not fun. We decided right then we had to be careful what we eat overseas and try to stay away from heavy pesticide laden GMO food like substances. No corn, wheat, rice, strawberries or soy products that are not certified organic. I am sure the list will be bigger on that but we are trying to figure out how to live overseas where there might not be an organic program.

I don't think I have noticed something as obvious as that. But usually if I get sick and think about it I was eating a bunch of crap for a few days before. There is definitely some sort of link there.

You blow on two 6-sided dice, and throw:

First die lands...
You rolled a 4.

Second die lands...
You rolled a 1.

Ok @rolltwodice, smile and give me something nice.

Oh my, looks like mushroom is the norm here lol.

3rd item from stash is a can of condensed milk...

Wait, isn't a 5 and a 6 fruit cocktail and peanuts?

it is! I was afraid the dice will give me mushroom since I've seen you and hubby get it. glad I got dessert ingredients!

we have to get this right...planning for d day...

It's nice that between you and your husband you managed to get dinner and dessert. But will the kids eat it? Haha..

And you are right there has been a lot of mushrooms rolled.

BTW we are going to buy the smallest can of mushrooms that is sold!

The kids only prefer Envirokidz Choco Chimp, Koala Crisp and Honey Nut Cluster flakes most other food is undesirable. Not really..... joking aside I am pleasantly happy with the diet my children will eat.

We will see if they will eat the SHTF food. I don't think they will.

The preferred drink is anything sweet.
I have to say if you can keep from it don't give your twins sweets they will prefer them over anything else.

That is good advice. We already have considered that and have only been feeding them whole foods. They seem to like meat and believe it or not plain yogurt. The sweetest thing they get is grapes cut into small chunks.

They are 9 months old. It is driving the grand parents nuts that they can't feed them sweets.

Actually they will be 10 months in a few days.

You blow on two 6-sided dice, and throw:

First die lands...
You rolled a 5.

Second die lands...
You rolled a 6.

Can I just double check the deadline - it's May 3rd, so effectively a two week turnaround from this post?

Also, it's just spices, sugar, salt, cooking oils in our 'store cupboard'.... can I assume that 'spices' means anything on my spice shelf, so effectively 'herbs' too, and maybe a stock-cube?

Can I count white-wine count as a spice?

Sorry to ask, my store cupboards quite bourgeois.

No that is cool I should have clarified better.

  • Herbs are fine as long as they are dried. No fresh ingredients. They have to be storable.
  • Stock cube is fine.
  • Wine, hard liquor and vinegar is fine but keep the combined liquid condiments to a shot glass worth. The idea is that they don't contribute much to the meal other then some flavor. Once again they need to be shelf stable.

If you want to use more wine then above during the cooking process you will have to drink it!

Yes the deadline is May 3 at 11:59pm (UTC -7)

Updating rules above.

It's quite a bourgeois condiment cupboard then!

I have updated the rules to make it easier for more people to participate. See rules 7 and 8.

Excellent competition full of imagination!
Fruits and corn for me,
a good survivalist dish !!! haha

Sounds like a great combination! LoL

Don't forget you get to add a third storable item of your choice as well as cooking oils and spices. Also you don't have to make just one dish you could make two or more seperate dishes.

ok, I choose what I want, as a tin can or feculents?

I have no idea what "feculents" are but as long as it can be stored without refrigeration or freezing then yes.

I REALLY want to see this feculent dish. Whatever it is.

Starches, at home in France, are rice, wheat, corn, barley,
all that is rich in starch.

CONGRATULATIONS!
You post is featured in the Preppers' Curation Day- Weekly Edition 8!

Thanks, I will check it out. :)

You blow on two 6-sided dice, and throw:

First die lands...
You rolled a 4.

Second die lands...
You rolled a 1.

Fixins for a hearty meal... will think about it. Thanks for the inspiration and the non edible roll :)

That is actually the best roll I have seen so far!

The pressure is enormous haha

This is an amazing idea! I don't know if I am brave enough to try :-P

The worst that can happen is you have to choke down some disgusting food. Haha. But just think of the entertainment value! ๐Ÿ˜

ย 6 years agoย (edited)

Urgent! I was just introduced to this post and need a roll! I realize the deadline is days away, but I accept the challenge!! @rolltwodice

I cant wait to see what people come up with ... this challenge is a great idea @canadianrenegade ! Keep em coming!

Edit- I do not believe I will be able to find Dried apricots (1 cup) Please void this from my roll.

You blow on two 6-sided dice, and throw:

First die lands...
You rolled a 3.

Second die lands...
You rolled a 6.

HAHA I knew it... I thought I was going to get the macaroni noodles and peanuts! Close enough...

Third item will be canned tuna.

Well be rice back to teach you peanuts how to cook! Tuna in once we get the grid back up! These EMPs are rough!

Haha, looking forward to your entry. ๐Ÿ˜

Wait no longer :D Check out my Something Random Sunday post for my entry!

Entry accepted. Thank You!

My recipe is simple)) Put aside only rice. Open the rest and pour it into the bucket. Go to the forest, dig a deep hole, pour it all into it. Cover the pit with branches. The next day from the pit we take out the wild boar and fry the steaks)) ....... forgot ......... the rice will approach the steaks as a garnish))

Haha. That is very clever and I bet delicious.

This method is less dangerous to health than trying to cook something from those cans))

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