Fictional Food Hit List – The Hunger Games

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The Hunger GamesSomething I’ve been wanting to do for a while is post blog entries that list all the foods in a particular book, which gives me a nice, concise list of foods to tackle for any given novel. When I read A Dance with Dragons, I highlighted all the dishes (which my husband actually noticed!) on my Kindle version and now I have a quick and easy way to go back and find all the food Dany snarfs down while sitting on her ass in Meereen.

The trouble with that is, it’s not very easy to read. The highlights on my Kindle are all lumped together and is therefore very unorganized. These will be a way for me to reference back in a quick and easy way.

So without further ado, here’s my hit list for the first book in The Hunger Games Trilogy (some of it already done). Some are meals and some are just single items. You’ll be surprised at just how much food there is in this one book!

  • Goat cheese wrapped in basil leaves – posted April 10, 2011
  • Rough grain ration bread with goat milk – posted January 16, 2012
  • Sliced bread with goat cheese and blackberries
  • Wild dog soup (yeah sorry, not doing this one…)
  • Fish stew with greens, strawberries and bread on the side – posted November 4, 2011
  • Raisin nut bread, burned, with tea – posted September 25, 2011 (forgot the tea)
  • Mr. Mellark’s cookies – posted September 21, 2011
  • Thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops with mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, and chocolate cake
  • Greasy Sae’s winter specialty, soup with mice meat, pig entrails, and tree bark (not doing this one either!!)
  • Dandelion salad with raisin nut bread
  • Rabbit stew with greens
  • Fish and katniss roots
  • Eggs, ham, fried potatoes, chilled fruit, rolls, orange juice, and coffee
  • Hot chocolate with rolls to dip
  • Chicken and oranges in cream sauce on rice with flower shaped rolls and peas with tiny onions; honey colored pudding – posted July 6, 2011
  • Goose liver and puffy bread – posted January 20, 2012
  • Mushroom soup, bitter greens with pea-sized tomatoes, thin sliced rare roast beef, noodles in a green sauce, cheese with sweet blue grapes
  • Cake with alcohol that lights on fire
  • Eggs, sausages, batter cakes with orange preserves, pale purple melon – posted October 3, 2011
  • Beef stew with hot grain
  • Porridge (with ration grain)
  • Fancy cakes with flowers
  • Fish shaped loaf tinted green with seaweed (District 4)
  • Crescent moon roll dotted with seeds (District 11) – posted August 15, 2011
  • Drop biscuits (ration grain) – posted January 16, 2012 (same as above)
  • Roast pig with apple in mouth
  • Fish soup
  • Pork chops with mashed potatoes, rolls and wine
  • Lamb stew with dried plums on wild rice – posted August 15, 2011
  • Cream and rose petal soup
  • Crackers and dried beef strips
  • Roasted rabbit – posted July 25, 2011
  • Roast groosling with sweet roots
  • Raw eggs, rabbit legs, and berries
  • Popped corn over a fire
  • Raw fish
  • Mint tea
  • Pack of dried fruit (apples and pears)
  • Hot broth
  • Berry mush
  • Groosling stew with roots and chives, cooked with hot rocks – posted June 12, 2012
  • Fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, lamb stew on wild rice – posted September 26, 2011
  • Roll with goat cheese and apple slices
  • Goat cheese and apple tart – posted January 12, 2012
  • Orange juice with frilly straw – posted November 28, 2011
While I won’t be doing all of these for grossness factor or simplicity (like mint tea or wild dog stew) I’ll try to get as many done as I can so that people can pick and choose from a nice, wide variety of foods for parties closer to the movie!

35 thoughts on “Fictional Food Hit List – The Hunger Games”

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  4. Enrique

    I don’t think mint tea would be bad with a slight adjustment. I occasionally make sweet tea (it’s mandatory in Texas) and throw in a mint leaf or two. It tastes delicious!

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  7. ImAddictedToHungerGames

    OMG I LOVE YOU THIS IS AMAZING I LOVED THE HUNGER GAMES SOOO MUCH AND KNOW ALL THAT FOOD I WISH I COULD HAVE JUST TAKEN A BITE OUT OF AND I CAN ACTUALLY PREPARE IT MYSELF THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!

  9. Molly

    Wow. I was barely able to put this book down for a second after the first few pages got me completely hooked. Normally it takes a week to read a book, but now I read this in 24 hours. Suzanne Collins here has an immediacy to it that, when combined with the very dramatic life-or-death plot, is incredibly compelling. It’s entertaining, and incredibly disturbing all at once. They say great art leaves you changed after you experience it… and this book definitely did that. Suzanne Collins has, with one amazing work, propelled herself onto my top shelf.

    Have a nice day,
    Molly

  11. Mamabunny

    I was going to create a Hunger Games Cookbook but I just can’t compete with your site! I love your recipes, your humor, and all the time you have spent creating this! Instead of writing, I am becoming a faithful follower! Great job!

  12. Rachel (teacher-chef)

    I love everything about your website, I have always loved to read and now love blogging. I am also trying to cook my way through a few of the Hunger Games recipes this month and will be using a mix of your recipes as well as those from “The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook”

  13. Lily

    “Wild dog soup (yeah sorry, not doing this one…)”
    I know that you are the Unofficial Greasy Sae, so I think it is only fitting that you should come up with your own, original recipe for this. Perhaps with some spicy HOT DOGS? They way I see it is that even though the Hob was illegal, it provided the people of District 12 with a place to have an extra chance at financial security. They were so poor, and often so cold and so hungry, that they would go there to find people like Greasy Sae, trade in whatever extras they could for a few extra dollars, a new coat, or a hot meal to bring home to their families. The Hob was more like an undercover community of trusted neigbors, and even though nobody wanted to know what was in some of Greasy Sae’s soups and stews, they still ate them and never complained. For that reason, I think her character should be honored with a recipe of her own! Wild (Hot Dog) Soup!
    (I love your name choice, by the way!)

  14. Lily

    Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that during one of the games Katniss realized that Greasy Sae had been raising money in District 12 (the Hob) to become an “anonymous sponsor” of the burn medicine during the Games?

    1. Lilly

      Not exactly. Greasy Sae started raising money in the Hob to sponsor her, then other people in District 12 found out and contributed too. Katniss finds out when she goes back to District 12 after the first games. It’s never specified what their money was used for and was most likely pooled with other sponsors money since everything sent in is very expensive.

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  24. Zoë

    Just saying, you forgot the clear broth, roll, and apple sauce Katniss eats in the hospital at the Capitol. By the way, I really like your website. I just LOVE the Hunger Games trilogy.

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  27. annabel

    it mentions that greasy sae uses wild dog but calls it beef because peacekeepers are a little choosier.talk about keeping the peace. next it will be the food wars

  28. annabel

    i always thought that the hunger games was about a family that gambled to win money then oneday discovered that there was no $ to by food so they died of starvation.

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