The end of the New Year celebrations officially marked the beginning of a new year.
The Jing family made sweet dumplings on the Lantern Festival. Besides the black sesame ones, they also created various homemade flavors, as the store-bought frozen ones from before the apocalypse were long gone.
In the apocalypse, no matter how much food you stored, it would eventually run out. Often, you wouldn't even realize how much your household consumed over time. To survive long-term in the apocalypse, cultivating your own food sources became essential.
One doesn't realize the cost of firewood, rice, oil, salt, and vinegar until one manages a household. A single person could consume over a thousand kilograms of grain in a year. And when disasters severed humanity from the fruits of its millennia-old wisdom... you would find that satisfying any specific craving became extremely difficult.
