2<\/sub>-ripened tomatoes and ranch dressing” type. No, I’m definitely more the “bring me your finest platter of meats and potatoes” type.<\/p>\nI kind of have to be. Even before landing on this forsaken rock, I was burning thousands and thousands of calories a day mining and hauling back supplies. The inertia dampeners and power suits can only do so much, and even when they’re running at their best I still have to bend or lift or swing a pickaxe a few hundred times a day to get anything done.<\/p>\n
But, well. I have bamboo. I have potatoes. I have carrots. I have a wheat-like grass. And I have some pumpkin-like gourds that I could swear look like someone carved into jack o’lanterns while they were still on the vine.<\/p>\n
And those are all heavy-carb heavy-starch kinds of veggies.<\/p>\n
There are no lettuces, no cabbages, no tomatoes. No grapes, no pomegranates, no oranges, no peppers. Heck, I don’t even have the semi-starchy vegetables like broccoli or cauliflower. It’s either all-starch or go home hungry.<\/p>\n
And I could do with a good glass of OJ or maybe a mixed greens salad, is what I’m saying.<\/p>\n
I never thought I’d miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 289: There’s no salad makings here. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not the “gallon of iceberg lettuce with CO2-ripened tomatoes and ranch dressing” type. No, I’m definitely more the “bring me your finest platter of meats and potatoes” type. I kind of have to be. Even before landing on this forsaken rock, … <\/p>\n
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