>>1547463If you're in a survival situation and starving, don't always just turn to looking for wild plants to eat. These can be dangerous. Even if you have read a few books on wild edibles, some plants, and especially mushrooms, look really similar. You can make yourself sick or even die.
Instead, look for a fallen log or a big rock. Turn that bitch over and find some bugs. Wash them in a stream or whatever you got. Throw them on the hot coals of a fire, or boil them, and eat them. Insects are really nutritious and provide a lot more calories than random wild plants you might find, and the vast majority of insects are safe to eat.
I was once lost in the woods in washington during an elk hunting trip and it took me 6 days to find myself a road to follow to a nearby camp ground. During my time the only food I had was a granola bar. I didn't know a lot about wild edibles and didn't want to risk eating the mushrooms I was finding since my knowledge of mushrooms was very poor and I was starting to get really hungry so I made a little fire and turned over a small rotten out log to find some earth worms. Well I washed them off in a nearby creek as best I could and skewered them all through before putting them on some of the hot coals from my fire and had myself some worm kebabs if you can call them that. Wasn't half bad if I do say so myself (which I do). Not the best food you can have but certainly safer than eating a mushroom you ain't sure about.
My grandad told me about this time he was lost up in idaho country. He said he was real wild when he was a young kid like me so he'd get piss drunk out in the woods by hiself. One day guess he wondered off. Way he told the story was that he was out there in the woods for over 3 weeks living off grubs and pillbugs he found. He told me he took a bunch of pill bugs, boiled them, ground 'em up with some dried grass pods and at 'em. He called it "rollie-pollie-oats". Guess I take after my grandad a lil bit too much!
