Survive!: Essential Skills and Tactics to Get You Out of Anywhere - Alive by Les Stroud; Laura Bombier

Author:Les Stroud; Laura Bombier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Outdoor Survival Techniques, Health & Fitness, Camping, Reference, Sports & Recreation, Sports, Outdoor Skills, Wilderness survival, Outdoor life, Personal & Practical Guides, Safety
ISBN: 9780061373510
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2008-11-15T09:51:52.988000+00:00

While a swamp bed can get you out of the water, it can’t get you away from alligators.

Chapter Eight

FOOD

Almost everybody who travels, it seems, worries about starving in a survival situation. In reality such concerns are largely overblown: you can survive for a month (or longer) without putting any food in your body. This is hard for some people to wrap their heads around, since most who live in developed nations are comfortably used to eating three or more meals a day. The thought of going days—or even hours—without a substantial meal is a scary proposition. But though it’s not necessarily comfortable to go for a stretch without food, it is possible.

Your quest for food will be easier if before you leave you research what you can eat, how to catch or pick it, and how to make it edible. There may be food in abundance all around you in the wild, but you have to know it’s there, and if necessary, how to prepare it. And there’s danger in consuming something without knowing if it’s edible.

The first time I saw star fruit was in Costa Rica. As I stared, wondering if they were poisonous, my survival buddy and military survival expert Mike Kiraly was stuffing his face with them. Had it not been for him, I might never have tried them, thereby missing out on an important and abundant food source.

Many early explorers died from scurvy while sleeping on beds of spruce boughs, which when boiled into tea would have provided all the vitamin C they needed.

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