Valentine: You can't learn any young, A big part of this is called makin' do. Ya hafta know what ya got, plan accordin'ly, an' ifin ya run out, try to make do. For example. What if a recipe calls for yogurt out here? Well you can substitute sour cream. But maybe you are out of sour cream too. You can substitute 3/4 cup butter-milk mixed with 1/3 cup of butter to equal about 1 cup of sour cream. but you are out of butter-milk you say?  Well, 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar mixed with a cup of milk make a butter-milk substitute. For bakin' you can used apple sauce if you are out of veggie oil, for eggs in baking you can used soaked flax seed, mashed banana mixed with backing soda, or mayonnaise. It takes time. I only learned how to really cook a ffew years ago an' it was Hondo's sister who taught me. But don't worry. I'm not askin' ya to make Duck la'orange, welsh rabbit, or anythin' like that. we aren't at homes nor do any of us expect fancy vittles. Hamburgers and beans, grilled chicken and salad, roast beef with potatoes, Scrambled eggs and bacon, sausage gravy and biscuits. We are on a mission here, though I'm not sure what we have gotten into, we are not in this place for fancy cookin'. You go to 11 Madison park in New york city for fine dinnin'. here we need to feed troops an' make it as easy on ourselves as possible. That means we cook two easy meals a day an' make sandwiches ifin anyone gets hungry mid day. Sound fair?  As far as fruit or not, I'll leave that to you to decide. We do have sody-pop, milk, juice, water, we can make ice tea and coffee too. Hondo has some beer as well, but ask him to share at your own risk. I'll be outside if needed.
 
With that Valentine went outside the camper to set up tables, chairs, and to pull out the grill and get it ready. She lso strung out the canopy lights so they had some lights outside after dark, though it should be light until 9 or 9:30 PM.
 
(edited cause posts while I was writing)

"Improvise?" If Jeanette is to be apart of this mission, she needs to leave her comfort zone. Jeanette got an explanation as to why she is needed and while all of it may be technically true, only some such as rescuing Gabrielle seem to be the true reason.
 
She sees Valentine with the lights and goes outside. "I have a candle lantern. Do we need it?"
 
Jeanette Isabelle

"Rest? What's rest? I will never see rest until the day my bones get put in a hole until some mental asylum escapee digs them up and becomes famous from the archeological discovery." Fernando answers. "I think Hondo needs to talk to you in private when you two get the chance." He then turns to Jeanette, "Unless we hit a No Tech EMP Zone or have a romantic dinner for two, save the candles. That reminds me, we need to talk of our personal inventory in case something happens or we need something we do not have. There is no rush as to when we have this talk."

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"Yes." Hikaru answers. "I can use a hand with the potato salad."

"Not exactly what I had in mind but yes. We need to know who has what for when the shit hits the fan we can be prepared for it and deal with it when it happens. All these campers and trailers are nice and necessary, but if we end up doing a massive rescue, we need to know what we have to deal with it. It will not be fun and games if a few in the caravan falls off a cliff and the rest of line have to go into rescue mode with us leading it. We need to be prepared for things like this." Fernando explains.