The pressure of cooking lunch
Tony volunteered to clean up the dishes from breakfast this morning. A couple of minutes later I saw him swimming near shore, fully clothed.
"I have some bad news. The pressure cooker seal is gone. I tried swimming after it, but it's gone."
Our pressure cooker is a very important cooking utensil for us. We use our pressure cooker every day to cook our lunch. Cooking beans for lunch takes about 30 minutes in the pressure cooker. Without using a pressure cooker, cooking beans can sometimes take close to 2 hours.
Now that the seal of our pressure cooker is lost to the river, the pressure cooker won't work. It will be at least three days until we can buy a new seal in a small town.
The dilemma is what should we eat for lunch until we can repair the pressure cooker? We have plenty of beans, but it will take a long time to cook them. We also have crackers with peanut butter, a few Cliff bars each, and enough spaghetti for five meals (we eat spaghetti for dinner every night), fejoida (two meals of Brazilian canned beans with meat, which we somtimes eat for dinner instead of spaghetti), and plenty of rice.
Get creative! Send us your suggestions for lunch for the next three days. We're counting on you to keep us from going hungry!
What is your favorite part of the Trans-Amazon Expedition?
Comments
We think you should go and search for eggs and fruits, and go fishing!
Posted by: 4th grade St. Joseph, Martinsburg,WV | November 5, 2008 9:30 AM
You can eat peanut butter sandwiches with the crackers and the peanut butter. Then the next day you can eat spaghetti.The third day you can go out in to the rain forest and find some fruits.
Posted by: St.ann4thgrade Brendon | November 5, 2008 10:45 AM
1st Day: Crackers and peanut butter and 1 Cliff bar each.
2nd Day: Rice, crackers, and 1 cliff bar.
3rd Day: Spagetti and 1 cliff bar.
Posted by: Anthony S. | November 5, 2008 11:57 AM
I love this page very much. I don't see how it can get any better.
Posted by: liam | November 5, 2008 12:00 PM
i think you should eat a lot of fruit combained with the bars you have.if you dont have enough bars go and cook the beans a day earlier and next day you can heat the beans a little so that they are not that cold
Posted by: karla cambron | November 5, 2008 12:03 PM
Maybe you could use a fire the night before at dinner, or you could make trail mix with fruit and cliff bars. Another option might be just to have spaghetti and rice for lunch.
Posted by: Newfane | November 5, 2008 1:11 PM
For the next three days try to eat spaghetti and rice. You could also each eat one Cliff Bar and some crackers and peanut butter. You should fish if you can and also look for fruits in the the rain forest.
Posted by: Mrs. Andre's Class | November 5, 2008 2:00 PM
You should go fishing and cook the fish over a campfire. You can also eat your crackers and peanut butter. Another day you could just gather fruit from the rainforest. We love bananas spread with peanut butter!
Posted by: Mrs. D's class | November 5, 2008 2:38 PM
I think you should live off the resources.
Posted by: caroline mcnicholas | November 6, 2008 1:08 PM
I think you guys should either go fishing or hunt for bananas and other fruits.
Posted by: Abbey | November 6, 2008 1:11 PM
Our class came up with a lot of ideas! Here are some of them:
Mix rice and spaghetti
Peanut butter and crackers
Hunt for fruit
Go fishing and trapping
Peanut butter on Clif bars
Peanut butter and rice crackers
Crunch up Clif bars, put in peanut butter and crumble up crackers and you have a trail mix
Posted by: Miss Anderson's 4/5 class | November 6, 2008 2:08 PM