Chapter 177
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Chapter 177
“Whatever you need, you know that,” she said.
“I need to know how to help Shane with the pack stuff and I have no idea where to start,” I told her.
“Well, come help me,” she said.
“But I need to help Shane,” I insisted.
“Sebi, helping me with pack duties DOES help Shane. It’s all his pack. The more we do for him, the less he has to do.”
“Okay, show me what to do.’
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She took me into the kitchen, and we began doing inventory for the food that had just come
“Why do you have to do all of this?” I ask, marking how many bags of rice and what weight was received into their computer system.
“Well, when you have over a hundred pack members, and those pack members eat three meals a day, plus snacks, you have to know how much food you have. Let’s say you decided to have three pasta meals in one week, but you only have fifty pounds of pasta. That will never make three meals for a hundred pack members.”
I stop and look at her. “How many meals will fifty pounds of pasta make for the pack?” I ask, having no idea how she knows this.
“Well, you have to consider several things.
“Such as …” I ask.
“How many warriors you have versus omegas. How hard your warriors are working,” she says, looking at me. She obviously recognizes that I don’t understand her.
“If they’re working out more, sparring more, they’ll be hungrier and eat more. It also matters if it’s a lunch meal or a dinner meal. There are all sorts of things to take into consideration when you look at the inventory of food for the pack.”
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As I help her do the inventory, I realize how little I actually know about what it takes to feed a pack. It’s more than just putting food on the table. As Enya and I talk, I see how much more it is and how much I’ve taken living in my family’s packs for granted.
After we finish inventory, we look over the menus for the week. Enya then shows me how she looks at what the omegas have suggested for meals and how she cross references that with the inventory we have for meals.
“This is a lot of work,” I tell her.
“Well, it’s one to two days a week, but yes, you have to get it right or the pack might not have enough food. You know as well as I do that if the pack isn’t fed properly, they get cranky. You also don’t want a lot of leftovers that get wasted, so you can’t just plan to overstock. That’s a waste of money and eventually, it catches up to the pack.”
We spend the rest of the morning going over the management of the kitchen. When it’s time for lunch, we don’t stop and the omegas, the very sweet omegas, bring us food to make sure we don’t miss our lunch.
I smile at them and without thinking much about it, I hug Jolie, the omega who brings us food.
“Thank you! That was so thoughtful!” I tell her before getting back to work.
When it’s time for dinner, I ask the omegas to make me a picnic basket. I’m hoping Shane has time to have dinner with me, away from the packhouse where we can talk. I need to apologize to him and tell him that, on my end, everything is fine between us.
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