When we are in the field we will not have a cook or a cafeteria to go to. We will be in charge of making all of our own meals. To do this, we are going to need some food. Today we continued the packing process by visiting the food warehouse and freezers to collect, box, and weigh the food that we would need. One of the best things about camping in Antarctica is that there are no animals to get into your food and it is so cold that you can bring frozen food and it will stay frozen. All we have to do is store our food in or under our kitchen tent and it should be good for awhile. We are bringing a variety of food to eat in the field. We have lots of snacks and chocolate, frozen vegetables and meat, pasta, hot chocolate, tea, soups, and beef jerky. In the field we will have a propane camp stove and oven to cook all of our food.
The process of finding all of the food on our list in the warehouse begins.
Scott and Amanda are scanning the spice shelf looking for spices to make our food taste better.
I was searching the shelves for foods that I like and I found one of my favorites, spaghetti sauce.
Since we won't get many fresh fruits or vegetables in the field, we will need to pack lots of juice to get our vitamins.
We have a ration of two candy bars for each person per day. If we have 7 people and we are estimating that we will be in the field for 50 days, how many candy bars do we get to take?
Amanda, Scott, and Shawn are boxing up all of the frozen food outside of the freezer.
The boys gathered up all the food on our list and piled it up on the table to be scanned and boxed.
The final step in assembling all of our food is to box all of the food, weigh each box, and label it for being transported on the helicopter.