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I was once on vacation with my family we were tired and needed food, got some KFC to go, only they forgot the little spork and napkin pack you usually get. We didn't figure this out until 20 minutes later back at the hotel. Kinda hard to eat mashed potatoes and slaw without a utensil---so my dad got out his pocket knife and carved little forks out of the plastic dome covering the meal. The were short so they didn't collapse and the bend in the dome provided a natural bend like a normal fork would have. Worked pretty well in a pinch.

That isn't much different from the little wooden spoons you get with ice cream sometimes.

I've used other foods as scoops. And a piece of paper plate or bowl can make a spoon of sorts in a pinch.

When I move, the first thing to go over is a box marked "Essentials." In it is a couple of rolls of TP, four-ish place settings of silverware, four-ish bowls (you can eat ANYTHING out of bowls), scissors, my 8" chef's knife, a small cutting board, a frying pan, dish soap, a scrubby and a roll of paper towels. That way, I can cook the first night if I want to. Usually, though, I'm taking the people who helped me move out to dinner, so it's usually pizza, burgers and the like.

If I'm really planning ahead, I make spaghetti sauce and freeze it, leave it out on the counter to defrost while we unload the truck and have a nice home cooked meal. That, naturally, has never actually happened.

My dad owns a custom kitchen design business (if he weren't swamped with work as it is this would have been a great place to plug his website) and once didn't have a fork at work. He instead made one out of wood on a bandsaw. It was so nice he used it over and over.

Oh, and on a related note, I'm an urbanite that carries a messenger bag everywhere I go. I've been thinking about getting one of those titanium camping sporks to keep in my bag for just such an emergency. They're like $8 and weigh nothing (which is why campers love them). It seems like a solid investment. Plus... spork!

aww, look at that humans making tools! i feel like on i'm on the sidelines of national geographic, food network edition! ;)

i would have just peeled back the tin from the lasagna and ate it like a very smooshy rice krispy treat. Or folded a piece of the tin into a stick like device.

When my roommate and I were painting our apartment a few years ago, we were still living and working an hour south of our new home. Almost every night for a week, our dinner was a pint of ice cream shared between us on the ride back to furnishings and bed. It took us a while to realise the negative impacts paint fumes and sugar highs were having on our sanity!
I'm moving again next week and have been trying to figure out how to eat well on the odds and ends I have left in my apartment and plan for a good meal once I arrive at my new new place. What do you all do with your half jars of mustard and miso?

We'd already cleaned the oven & broiler before moving in. That night, after realizing we couldn't find the silverware, we each lifted our steaks with corkscrews... And gnawed on them like cavemen.

is this TRAILER TRASH anonymous?

Food is SUPER important to me... i may have just gone hands first on that lasagna... but i'm one to plan for move-in food ahead of time.
We always grill-out to feed our moving helpers, but this is different i gather that you are working on the house but not living there yet. We'd probably be living on take out if it were us.

The thing I forgot to mention was that we had just discovered (through waiting over an hour for our lasagna to heat up) that our oven was not working properly.

So there definitely a lack of morale to throw it there too...

I keep unused takeout utensils in my glove compartment, which have actually come in use frequently for instances like this.

desperate times...beats sucking yogurt out of a yoplait container (sharp edges!!)