a scary issue for going cruising is provisioning especially for women it can be intimidating to
walk into a boat and you know how can I store this how can I do that how is that gonna hold up how am
I gonna cook these meals you know there's not enough space so I am here to help you through
that but another factor in what I'm doing is I'm on somebody else's boat so I really don't
know the area I haven't had time to get used to it I have no idea what they have you don't want
to have double so I have to really go through the kitchen which is not my space it's somebody else's
space and figure out what they have welcome to season four of lazy gecko sailing first
up we're taking you aboard this lovely Antares 44 I for a three-week passage where do we even start
provisioning of course now you have to remember this is my first time provisioning for somebody
else's boat and I thought it would be really cool to walk you through it and show you so
we're gonna be out for two to three weeks mostly on the shorter end of three weeks so I went with
16 days and I assumed we will eat out here and there so I gave 16 days of meals that I needed
so that was breakfast lunch and dinner I asked the gentleman's bow that were aboard what do you
like what do you not like what can you have what can you not have he can't have spicy food we love
spicy food so I kind of compromised I chose meals that I could add spice into later so I said okay
well these this is my idea and I've really got about five different breakfast and probably five
different lunches and then we'll kind of rotate it and that makes so you're not having the same thing
every single day you have choices and everybody likes it so I did that for breakfast and lunch
and then for dinners I literally have 16 different meals so what I did was I listed them all out
and I come up and I write the ingredients to everything I need and then save for two dinners
I'm using asparagus so I'm like okay I'll get two bundles of asparagus and I really get in there
with the numbers and I'm really on point even with breakfast for eggs well how many eggs come in a
package you do that you divide it by the number of people and you assume they eat two eggs each in
the morning and that's what I did so I can come up with the exact number so we're not short and we're
also not over because then you have to throw that food out if you can't find some of you give it to
now I do know that things will go bad along the way probably not as quickly since it's cooler
right now but that does happen so I also factor in that we'll have to stop and get more stuff if
something like that happens so I came up with a list under each meal of all the ingredients
and then I came on to our friends boat and I completely ransacked his kitchen and I'm
sure it was hard for him to watch me do it and it was a little uncomfortable for me to go through
somebody else's space especially because I know how territorial a kitchen can be because I am a
major control freak when it comes to the kitchen here's this spice rack and I went through every
little jar and on my list if he had something like garlic salt I went to my list and I took it off my
list and that saves money and it saves space I don't know what's more important in the cruising
world money or space I think they're equally as important I guess I mean you could sleep with
your spices if you had to so maybe money's more important to have in the cruising Kitty and then
I went through like all his cookware so he has everything that I need right down to puke I'm sure
he has a peeler I just I need to check on that but I think we're all good and we went out today
we got all of our alcohol walking into the liquor store beer and liquor run definitely made a carpet
on the list two large bottles of aqua two of us are baka drinkers three cases of the
Michelob Ultra one case two Coors Light two cases of giggling one large bottle of scotch
we all know that's for my wonderful husband two boxes are below one box of Pinot Grigio and one
bottle of gin gin and Fresco's low calories I love them so that's on the list ooh Wacha
selection oh yes boxed wine this is the type of wine you like on a boat personal favorite
they do not have England light and cans
they have regular regular you don't want anything else Corona light just ask England okay you can
only have it here so enjoy it well I believe we are all set fear multiple cases top and bottom
lots of good stuff their cigars were requested I have no idea why we don't smoke them I guess
it's just something I believe I found them he told me all the way in the corner for
over 1 2 3 4 the light ones tivities fabulous I almost forgot them am i right yeah I'm good
what do you think 327 dollars worth good luck I picked it all out so I'm gonna leave you to
have fun with us and then we will put it all in the boat now he has so much space that I'm
not worried about it you can check it out I'm gonna be a little nosy yeah he has an amazingly
big fridge obviously it's not stock now here's his freezer look at that freezer and it goes
all the way to the floor so it's like already stacked a quarter full with salmon which is
amazing so the galley is down on this one down there and I am gonna cook up a storm down there
just gonna Dunkin Donuts my man hi just got to West Marine picking up making like a stop
well the our friend of ours is on his boat doing things like polishing his fuel getting his water
tanks looked at and all that good stuff getting ready for us so we're going to West marine to get
last-minute things he would like us to look up a list of everything for the Coast Guard we're
gonna get that it's more harnessed definitely some stuff for reefs and that's what we're doing
there's less than 65 but he needs some
so you need to either three three day and three night or three day and night players
distressed like he needs me to whistle I'm giving this back of to one for the dimi child
safety harness last one okay so this wasn't at the last West Marine these are amazing
definitely a must for a child we already have one for our boat our friend does not have one
on his boat but really really important and it's worth the money and then you tether
them in the harness right there it's kind of confusing actually not as easy as it looks
about
there we go we're all settled in and ready to start our journey well we
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