Onboard Resources and the Food Challenge

OK, so we've been off-shore for nearly 3 weeks now. By that, we really mean away from a shop. We've of course been ashore at Island Head Creek, Hunter, Curlew, Scawfell, Thomas and Shaw Islands since our last re-provisioning at Yeppoon but these are all National Parks. Our next scheduled marina stop and re-provisioning opportunity will be at Airlie Beach just 20nm away. The Bloke has thrown out the challenge, our booking is for 15th-16th August. We are to last on the resources on-board until then! This does not sit well with my massive food insecurity but I'm willing to give it a try.

We should be safe from scurvy. The foil balls are all limes.

We should be OK with water due to the recent generosity of 2 lots of friends. 120L all up which is 5-6 days worth. We have learned to be very abstemious. We have about 275L left in the tanks, plus we have bottled water. 200L of the 275 is in the for'ard tank. The gauges are not exactly linear so the remainder is a guesstimate. We do have a birdie wash DAILY as per normal but the laundry is piling up. 2 weeks of laundry is generally 3-4 machine loads. Day one at the marina is going to be a whopper of washing, washing, washing.... Better take a book or two!

Second laundry basket required. This one is overflowing.

Since the fridge is very depleted, we are putting wine, UHT Milk, and water bottles in to help retain the temperature and avoid senseless power consumption. It's very hard to keep 'air' at a temperature. The Bloke is down to his last 6 beers. They are in the fridge too. Luckily for him, there is wine!

Bottled water supplies in the bilge.

 

2 more bread mix packets exist, which is more than we need.

We'll keep this as a rolling food diary.

Day 1 - Saturday 6th Aug
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex margarine spread plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade.
Lunch - ham, salami + coleslaw. Fruit salad of 'fresh' apple, pear and the last of the kiwi fruit topped with Greek yogurt.
Drinks - last of the pumpernickel bread cut in small squares, spread with last of the herbed cream cheese garnished with last of the cods roe caviar, lime slice and dried dill leaves. Half a Bree cheese plus some crackers. Olives. Wine. Shared with guests.
Dinner - home made Sausage Rolls!!! The Bloke was so very happy and adamantly refused to consider offering any to our on-board guests over drinks.

Cooking today - bread, sweet potato soup plus sausage rolls.

Day 2 - Sunday 7th Aug
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - Sunday Roast. A marinated beef roast (from the freezer), potatoes wrapped in foil, sweet potato wrapped in foil. Last of the brussel sprouts. Fruit salad of 'fresh' apple, pear and tinned peaches topped with Greek yogurt.
Drinks - Tinned Dolmades
Dinner - Cold sausage rolls plus coleslaw for The Bloke, sweet potato soup for me.

Day 3 Monday 8th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - Cold roast beef  plus salad using last of a coz lettuce heart, fresh mandarin segments, walnuts, artichoke hearts and red cabbage in a Dijon mustard dressing. Fruit salad of apple, pear and tinned peaches. Last of the Greek yogurt.
Drinks - Pretzels + olives
Dinner - Cold sausage rolls plus coleslaw

Day 4 Tuesday 9th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - Bread rolls filled with cold roast beef and coleslaw
Drinks - cut pepperoni + cheese
Dinner - Cold Sausage Rolls, coleslaw  plus sweet potato soup.

Day 5 Wednesday 10th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - cold beef sandwiches.
Drinks - olives+ hummus + crackers
Dinner - eggplant, zucchini and cubed ham tomato ragu served with squid ink and regular spaghetti and Parmesan

Baked bread + 3 the usual cake slices (Moomba Fingers, Chocolate Brownies and Cinnamon Squares)

Day 6 Thursday 11th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - last of the roast beef served in bread with coleslaw. Cut fruit using the last half of an apple, a pear, tinned peaches and morrello cherries served with home made Natural Yogurt.
Drinks - cubed cheddar with red cocktail onions, olives and Polish dill cucumbers cut in strips. The bilge stores keep delivering marvels!
Dinner - eggplant, zucchini and cubed ham tomato ragu served with squid ink and regular spaghetti and Parmesan

Day 7 Friday 12th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade
Lunch - sailing and skipped lunch. Ate a mandarin and some cake along the way
Drinks - cheese + crackers + olives +
Dinner -Perri perri chicken strips served with stir fried veggies - Chinese cabbage, carrot, celery, onion, red capsicum and sliced snow peas  - 3 snow peas left for tomorrow :~)

Baked bread (last packet of bread mix)

Day 8 Saturday 13th August
Breakfast - toast (home baked bread) with nutlex spread(margarine) plus peanut butter, Vegemite and homemade marmalade

SO FAR, SO GOOD. Should make it and our 200L water tank is still 75% full!

Laundry situation getting interesting. Digging out the last few sets of undies.

Oh, man... the washing is going to take hours to get done!

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Day 9 Sunday 14th August
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Day 10 Monday 15th August - We are booked into the Abel Point Marina and will be ashore
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