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Survival Food Long term survival situations require food, although most people could easily go 20 days without. As far as animal life goes, if it walks, crawls, swims, or flies, you can usually eat it, including bugs. The art of hunting and trapping, and the skills required to make and use weapons or snares requires practice. Edible plants can be confusing, however there are four basic wild foods you can find most anywhere that will provide nourishment. Pine Trees (any variety) Young needle tips in a tea, pine cone nuts, even the inner bark. Oak Trees (any variety) All acorns are all editable although some are bitter. (soak in water) Grass (any bladed variety) Young shoots, chew then swallow juices, spit out pulp. Also harvest the tiny black seeds in the "foxtails" when ripe. Cattails Leaves and stalks, green flower heads, and root corms. Most folks already know about dandelion leaves and clover flowers already. There are hundreds of others. Steamed Stinging Nettle is excellent . The inner bark of the Cottonwood tree is sweet, fresh or dried. Avoid eating mushrooms as a survival food. The risk of poisoning is too high and their nutrient value is near zero. - Wild recipe for June - Wild Flower Salad 1/4 cup wild onion or garlic leaves 1 cup cattail (young shoots) 1/4 cup clover flowers (mixed colors) 1 cup violet flowers and leaves 1/8 cup wild spearmint leaves 1/2 cup watercress or lamb's quarters Cattails shoots should be sliced. Chop up leaves and flowers. Spearmint leaves (and clover flowers) are best when chopped very small. Toss and enjoy. Serves 4 Giving credit where due, this recipe is similar to one I first discovered in a book written by "Wildman" Steve Brill. This guy really knows good wild food recipes and his information about the various plants is really interesting and fun to read. The book is called "Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants (in wild and not so wild places)". I highly recommend this book. |
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