If you were on a desert island....

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A wee game me and the DC have been playing - we have a lot of food chat. You are stuck on a desert island and can only take 10 ingredients to live off.....what would you take? Salt and pepper are freely available 😁

This is mine (although it is not set in stone...)
Chicken
Potatoes
Onions
Oats (could make into flour and use to bake etc)
Eggs
Honey
Full fat milk (could make into butter, cream and cheese as well)
Tomatoes
Lemons
Tea

What would you take?

Yours is pretty good though I might be tempted to swap the tomatoes for coffee.

Rice
Garlic
Chickpeas
Tahini
Lemon
Eggs
Feta Cheese
Avocado
Strawberries
Coffee

Assume there would be coconut trees there which could be fermented into booze

Yes, we decided cocnut trees will be there. Also, you may fish 🙂
Coffee is a good idea - I might switch it in for my lemons.....

Eggs
chicken
rice
carrots
fresh coriander
chickpeas
garlic
flour
natural yoghurt
dark chocolate

Hopefully there are some kind of fruit trees or berries!

Your lemons and strawberries will ferment OK if not!

Can I have a cow? That takes care of milk and yogurt.

Plus
potatoes
sugar
flour
oats
carrots
tomatoes
coffee
sultanas
bananas
lettuce

But is that balanced nutritionally?

Sorry, you can't have a cow.

Ooh, so if someone were to list beef, how would it come?

If I got good at fishing, that would be excellent.

Rice
Clementines
Pea shoots
Bell peppers
Tomatoes
Steak
Onions
Muesli
Milk
Maltesers

What a meanie you are 😂.

Ok, swap carrots for milk, and I’ll make my own yogurt.

If there are two of us on the island, can we combine lists?

Or if there is a basketball I find, can I pretend it’s a person and get a double list?

I thought about muesli but wasn’t sure if it counted as one thing or many ie sultanas, oats, nuts etc?

Is there fresh water?

I am imagining I would have whole raw chicken to work with, so I guess you could have a whole cows worth of beef! We decided livestock were not allowed to be part of the game as it got cheaty 😆

Do we have any equipment for cooking?

Coffee
tea
sugar
flour
potatoes
rice
milk
jam
eggs
natural yoghurt

I would also class muesli as more than one ingredient. Sorry! Its strict game 😆

Yes there is fresh water and cooking equipment

Coffee
chocolate
cheddar
almonds
avocado
eggs
tomatoes
parsley
apple
cinammon

Is there a coffee machine then? 🤔🤣

Ohhhh cheddar 🤔.

I forgot cheddar. That’s an essential isn’t it?

Hmm. In that case, I'll swap muesli for bread.

I thought about taking cheddar, but think I could make it from the milk?
Sure, we can have a coffee machine. Why not!

I don’t know how to make cheddar!

Yup!

Chocolate is too.

do we need to bring our own olive oil?