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The Art of Eating Through the Zombie Apocalypse

A Cookbook and Culinary Survival Guide

by Lauren Wilson, Kristian Bauthus

Genre – Cookbook

Version for Review – Kindle/ PDF

I found this book really entertaining. My husband is a “prepper” (see below for his posts on how to get prepared for an emergency), not necessarily for the Zombie Apocalypse, more for anything that could happen, fire, earthquakes, global warming, terrorists, the plague, etc. We love watching the Walking Dead, and I love disaster movies (Armageddon and The Day After Tomorrow are among my favourites) so this book is right up our alley.

I loved how the authors incorporated humour into the book. It was a fun read, made me laugh a lot, and I actually did learn some new things.

“If you are reading this, it means that you are one of the few people on this planet being proactive about zombie-apocalypse preparedness. Good for you. Or, if you have acquired or found this book during the apocalypse, congratulations on still being alive.”

This is primarily a guide for food, how to find it, how to cook it, what is edible, what is essential to your survival etc.

I love the Zombie/Apocalypse themed names of the dishes they created. Among them these are some of my favourites: Guerrilla Gardening, THE WOk-InG DEAD STir-fry, PREPPER’S PIZZA and APOCALyPSE nOWnIES.

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The author goes into a lot of details on edible plants in North America and provides some recipes for common plants to use with them. This would be especially useful if you needed to rely on nature and your gathering skills to feed yourself. They even advocate chamomile tea after a long day of brain bashing to help your anxiety and stress!

There are some descriptions on edible bugs as well, but being a vegetarian that is not for me. Also information on hunting game, what to make and other things meat-eaters need to know to feed themselves. Being a vegetarian, I fully expect to die of starvation or be eaten by my companions first.

They go into more details on how to make a compost, what plants are best and easiest to grow, and how to acquire seeds to grow said food. After growing it they discuss how to ferment, can, and even make jam with it.

Overall it is a fun little guide with a mix of humour and genuine useful information and recipes to help aid your survival. If you are looking for a book for a prepper then they will enjoy this one for sure. If my husband actually read print books I would totally buy him this, alas, he only read things on his tablet, phone, or laptop!

If you are interested in prepping for the zombie Apocalypse, or doomsday, the end of the world, ice storm, aliens, or whatever it is, check out these posts on how to prepare your family for any kind of emergency by my awesome husband Thor.