This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Author:Susan Beth Pfeffer [Pfeffer, Susan Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780547248042
Publisher: Graphia
Published: 2010-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

June 10

You'd think with a houseful of food for the first time in a year, we'd be eating nonstop. Oh no. Not us.

First off, Matt pointed out that what seems like an enormous amount of food now is going to vanish in the blink of an eye with ten people eating it. Okay, he didn't say "in the blink of an eye." He said that if we each ate four ounces of rice a day, we'd finish the four twenty-pound bags in a month.

Four ounces of rice sounds like a lot of rice to me. And there's all that other food we brought back, plus the food we get each week, plus whatever shad is still in the garage. But Mom agreed with Matt that we'd have to be very careful to stretch out our supplies for a long time.

Then Charlie—Mr. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'— pointed out that some of the food might have spoiled, and it would be a disaster if we came down with food poisoning at the same time.

He suggested we become food buddies (that was his exact term, "food buddies"), and every morning two of us could take a nibble from one kind of food and two of us from another, etc., and then if we didn't get sick, we could all eat the food we'd started that morning.

Matt and Syl said they'd be food buddies, and Jon volunteered himself and Julie, which left Alex and me. Dad and Charlie said they'd food-buddy, also, and we agreed Mom and Lisa shouldn't risk it.

This morning Alex and I each had a bite of canned mushrooms, and Jon and Julie had a bite of beef jerky, and Matt and Syl had a bite of canned carrots, and Dad and Charlie had a sip of vegetable soup.

We're all still alive.

And none of us have yet eaten our four ounces of rice.

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