Preparing food for travel?

[Thop]

I've got a decently sized stockpile of fish that I'd like to use to travel around a bit looking for a new base location. However, I'm not sure how I can bring several days of food with me besides using canned/packaged goods I scavenge. Ideally I'd like to use my fish stockpile, since it's relatively easy to replace and my vegetable supply is fairly limited with winter beginning to set in.

Of course I could just fish at nearby bodies of water on my travels as well as scavenge more packaged food, but I'm generally trying to use the cooking system more lol

Thanks

[Duke Fleed]

You can jar vegetables buy using jars, lids, vinegar, sugar and grown vegetables. Also potatoes can lay around for 14 days before they go bad, tomatoes for 4. I believe that soup lasts for 3 days before it goes bad. SO you can stock your car with these and eat soup first

[ryansDeViL]

You could probably put them in jars. I'm not entirely sure though. And lids can be tough to find

[ryansDeViL]

Originally posted by ❄︎♥︎Sammy♥❄:

You can jar vegetables buy using jars, lids, vinegar, sugar and grown vegetables. Also potatoes can lay around for 14 days before they go bad, tomatoes for 4. I believe that soup lasts for 3 days before it goes bad. SO you can stock your car with these and eat soup first

What if a tomato sits out for 3 days, then in a fridge? how long would it last in the firdge?

[Jarzzen]

A tomato on the counter here wouldn't last 5 mins; my cat likes to skin them and then swat the remainder onto the floor. It makes one heck of a mess.

[Thop]

Originally posted by Jarzzen:

A tomato on the counter here wouldn't last 5 mins; my cat likes to skin them and then swat the remainder onto the floor. It makes one heck of a mess.

good thing we don't have to worry about animals until the next update lol

[Jarzzen]

Originally posted by Thop:

Originally posted by Jarzzen:

A tomato on the counter here wouldn't last 5 mins; my cat likes to skin them and then swat the remainder onto the floor. It makes one heck of a mess.

good thing we don't have to worry about animals until the next update lol

Yeah; I think it's going to be fun; especially, if we need to look out for skunks every time we come out of our base near dawn or dusk.

[ProtecTron]

I would move non-canned food and stuff like that once the "new base" is found, cleared and semi-ready to recieve your stockpiles of goddies. I mean, if you have a base keep it stocked until you own a second one. Meanwhile, take your daily food for the travel and the fighting.

[Jethro]

I know you said you’d like to use up your fish first, but honestly I never take prepared food when I travel. It sure would be a shame to need to eat and have it gone rotten on you.

I always have like 2-3 bags of chips in my backpack and maybe some beef jerky. I’ll take extra when traveling far, and even take a couple cans of food too, just in case.

[Megakruemel[GER]]

This goes a bit out of the way and takes longer to prepare but you could level your foraging skill until you find mushrooms.


After you reach that point, you basically never run out of food as long as a forest is nearby and it only gets easier if you have a bowl to make a salad.


The downside is that you need to know what is poisonous and what not. BUT since you seem to be a fisher, you might actually have an easier time finding bait at the end of the day by leveling foraging anyways.

[Greb]

Potatoes last a long time and recover a surprisingly large amount of thirst and hunger, even when eating them raw. No happiness loss either, which is weird.

Otherwise put your perishables in jars, which are usually hard to come by along with the vinegar and generally not worth the time at the moment, but it's an option.

Or, make use of survival skills. Trapping is generally not that useful when on the move, but foraging can be decent especially if you've specced into it, and Fishing can be good, or waste a whole lot of time. Hard to keep your weight up these days though with just fish and forage, especially when on the move.

I just bite the bullet and treat Mac and Cheese, Cereal and Chocolate as travel food, saving my other non-perishable stuff for meals and the like.

Originally posted by Jarzzen:

A tomato on the counter here wouldn't last 5 mins; my cat likes to skin them and then swat the remainder onto the floor. It makes one heck of a mess.

If they add cats and they end up doing stuff like that, knocking items you've placed around the base or off of counters they'll end up in my cooking pot faster than you can say catnip, lol.

[Pantstron]

Cereal seems to be the best non perishable food. 0.2weight for 40 hunger that's the weight of 2 bags of chips but twice as much hunger reduction.