5-Minute Message: Couch Potato Preparedness – Cooking Shows
Given the proliferation and popularity of cooking shows (Hell’s Kitchen, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Top Chef, etc.) and how many professional chefs have become household names (Bobby Flay, Alton Brown, Giada De Laurentiis, Rachel Ray, etc.) it’s a great time to engage your team in cooking up some preparedness recipes, and planning how you’ll address feeding people with your emergency supply cache.
Two ideas:
1) Hold a preparedness potluck. Award prizes for the most creative and delicious treats made from foods in your disaster supply cache. Schedule this to coincide with when you need to check and rotate supplies.
2) Give everyone participating the same ingredients. Choose items like rice, beans and spices (think low-cost, healthy, long shelf life) and have a crisis and calamity cooking competition!
Empower the chefs on your team to cook up something great and fun!
Tip: Remember that Y2K left behind several books on disaster cooking — many available for just pennies!
