In case of a zombie, nuclear, or biblical apocalypse, martial law, or you have decided to play dead to the world for a couple of weeks while having a marathon of your favorite TV series (or whatever other reason to provoke such radical escapism), people should always have the following stowed away safely in their homes:

• Water bottles
• Canned food (or in glass jars)
• A can opener
• A Swiss knife
• A First Aid kit
• A survival guide/ boy scout handbook
• Duct tape
• Sharpie Pen
• Night-Vision Goggles
• Flashlight

Apart from those essentials, one could afford a few more items during the rush of panic-buying such as crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate. You gotta live a little while surviving, right?

If you’re a survivor of a calamity, escaping reality, or are doing an all-nighter for your law midterms, you’re basically going to be camping out. Now every camp-out has this fantasy of toasting Kraft Jet-Puffed marshmallows over a crackling fire and setting them in-between Hershey’s chocolate bars and Graham crackers. These little bits of sweet salvation are called S’mores, and they’ll always be a staple in the roughing out of yore.

We however, live in an urban jungle where not all of us live near a Rustan’s supermarket or have the money to buy said global branded products in the first place. Enter Desperate College Kid’s newest ingenious puwede na innovation: Fita Curly Top S’mores.

This thing born out of 24-hour convenience store creativity won’t taste as hoity toity as its expensive inspiration, but it won’t matter as you scarf down one crunchy, sweet, gooey, chocolatey piece of heaven after another.

It won’t get you on a nourishment high, but it will get you by. And oftentimes, to the dreary and downtrodden (or the stress-ridden), that’s all that matters.

So whether you’re going to be surviving an apocalyptic aftermath or your 500-item final exam tomorrow, be sure to stock up on a mountain of a batch of these to keep you in good, cheap company.