By noon, because there weren't any survivors inside the refuge, Durin and Anta could only have a meal of the all-vegetarian nutritional paste produced by the refuge.
Although it sounded terrifying, the taste was unexpectedly quite good—the entire nutritional paste was made from potatoes, which were the largest yielding tuber of the refuge's ecological garden. They were mashed and mixed with various vitamins and seasonings.
This was the emergency food of the army, highly praised by countless military leaders—though the taste wasn't great, it was filling. Countless soldiers throughout history have survived sieges thanks to this nutritional paste.
