In addition to water, the food is the most important requirements. So in the survival predicament, you must always be wary of the wild food, make a living on the earth. If there is food rationing, save it, for a rainy day.
However, you must keep in mind the following points –
If there is water, no food you can still live many days, so, as long as enough water to drink as much as possible in order to keep healthy.
Low increases thirst for dinner. If every day 1 quarts (1.1 liters) of water supply, try not to eat dry, starchy food and meat, taste is very thick, if any, can eat those high sugar content food (such as hard candy or
Dried fruit).
Any job will need food and water, so when a lack of food and water, should make effort to reduce to a minimum.
Whatever on the ground, long run on land, in the water swim are potential food source, only a handful of cases
Outside.
Nature will give you food make you survive. But you must know how to find and access to food, this chapter will teach you how to get a plant-based foods, in the seventh chapter you will learn how to get the animal food.
The nutrition of plants
Plant is an important source of food, although they may not be able to provide a balanced diet, but can maintain your physical energy, even in the arctic region – the normal, where life, provide heat meat is necessary. Many plant foods such as nuts, seeds, etc., can provide enough protein in order to make sure your normal working efficiency. The roots of plants, green and so on all have natural sugar, can supply calories and carbohydrates, provides the energy necessary to body.
If you’re trying to avoid the enemy, or lack in a wildlife area, plant food value will become more and more important.
For example —
When you can use the wind, air, sunlight, or the fire to dry foods and prolong its shelf life, so you can store and carry them wherever you go, you can eat when necessary.
Low for plant-based foods is easier than for animal food, is also much more quiet. This is especially important in the case of a nearby enemy.
The edibility of plants
In survival plight, whether plant or wild plants, able to identify what is important is edible. Plant growth information, it’s easy to get, so in this manual focus on wild plants.
When gathering edible plants, must keep in mind the following:
Plant growth, plant growth or long in the field or nearby wild plants is likely to be sprayed with pesticides, so no matter what kind of plant is collected, you have to rinse thoroughly.
If water or you used to the growth of plant cleaning plant water is polluted, so the plant surface is also affected by the pollution, so if you want to eat raw plant, must use the drinkable water is rinsed clean.
Some plants may contain the mold, it is very dangerous. To reduce this risk, try to collect fresh seeds, fruit, or leaves, don’t pick those who have dropped to the ground.
Low with the kinds of plant growth and perhaps because of environmental and genetic factors and different toxicity. Ordinary flowers JiaoGuo
Leaf is one example. Some spend JiaoGuo cyanide content is very high, some content is very low.
Low response to plant foods vary from person to person, some people are prone to stomach problems. If you are sensitive in this respect, we should try to avoid eating wild plants don’t know. If you are poison Ye Teng is extremely sensitive, it should avoid eating food made of the same generic plants, such as sumac, mango, cashews and drinks.
Some edible wild plants, such as acorns, water lily, taste bitter, the bitter substances (usually tannin compounds) makes these plants are very bad. Water for a few more times can help to remove the bitter taste.
When a lot of important wild plants of oxalic acid salt content is very high, oxalic acid salt generally makes your mouth feeling of intense burning, and has a bad effect on kidney, boiling a usually destroy oxalate in plants.
There are a lot of a lot of kinds of plants in the world, some plants even eat only a little bit can make you very uncomfortable, or a serious imbalance between physiological functions, and even death. So as long as you to plant the edibility of have a little doubt, eat to use edible general test before a test.
Can test a plant, to ensure the enough time and amount of plant, make your time and efforts not in vain. Plant the edibility of inspection at least 24 hours.
Remember, eating too much plant-based foods can cause diarrhea, or cramping. Green apple and a large number of fresh berries, for example, can easily lead to this problem. Even if you already tested the food is safe, also want right amount to eat, and other food to eat.
From the time required to test food and steps, you can see that can distinguish edible plants are how important it is.
Don’t eat has the following characteristics of unknown plants —
SAP creamy white, or after exposure to air, SAP will become black.
“Looks like a mushroom.
“Looks like Onions or garlic.
“Looks like coriander, parsnips root or dill.
Second-ranking have similar carrot leaves, root or tuber.
Preparation of plant-based foods
Although some plants can be eaten raw, but some have to cook to eat.
Improve the taste of the food has the following several ways: soak, parboil, cooking, or leaching, leaching, twist plants in the filter, and then poured into boiling water).
Leaves, stems, buds. Into the water boiled until tender, cook a few times more help to remove the bitter taste.
Root and stem. Boiled, baked or roasted. Boil can remove harmful substances, such as oxalic acid crystallization.
Nuts. Leaching acorns in a pot of water, or soak removal bitter, chestnuts, though can be eaten raw, but baked or steaming will taste better.
Grains and seeds. Fry to make it taste better, or ground into powder, and can be used as a soup or stew of thickening agent, can also be used to make bread.
The juice. If the juice contains sugar, can boil the water to get sugar.
The fruit. The fruits of hard, have a thick shell can bake once again eat, juicy fruit can be boiled.
The method of cooking
In the survival environment, you may need to temporarily make ovens to cook food, and cooking program and you cook in your kitchen, boiled, Fried, baked, baking and steaming, baking, etc.
Cooking is one of the best ways, because you can retain the juice of salt and nutrients.
If there is no metal containers to cook food, you can use a there are holes rock, or find a hollow piece of wood, food and plenty of water into the hole in the wood, wooden container at the top of the fire, then hot stones in foods, such as stone after the cool, then put other hot stone, until cooked food.
Warning: do not use wet stone, the stone in streams or other wetland, for instance, because they are likely to explode.
In this way, you can also use the bark to make the container or the leaves, but the vessel above the waterline parts easy to burn, fire unless you keep them moist or keep low enough.
Other can be used to prepare the containers have coconut shell, seashells, turtle shell, bamboo has been sectioned (see figure 6-2), and even made of animal stomach or leather bag.
Warning: closed when heated bamboo could cause an explosion.
If there is really no frying pan, can be Fried foods with stones. Will be a flat, intermediate emarginated stone on the fire, after hot stone, heat the oil and food in the above until it is Fried.
For nuts, and grains, baking is the best choice. Put nuts or grains in a container, or on a stone, heat slowly, until the nuts or grains surface zoom.
Drying is to put the plants placed in an oven, heat slowly bake. Can dig a pit in the fire as a makeshift oven, or in a sealed container, you can also use the leaves or clay will plant wrapped up. One approach is to dig a hole in the ground, add some thermal coal pit, put food and some water in a sealed container, the container in the pit, to cover the container with a layer of coal and a thin layer of soil.
Another approach is to put a layer of dry stone inside the pit, and then make a fire, such as coal, coal ash poke a small hole, then put the container in the coal ash, the next step and the same as above.
You can also use the oven to bake food, such as rock, concrete. Do with a rock bottom first, then doing in vertical around four stone wall, again with a large enough to cover the top of the stone. Put a circle of coal along the base of stone edge, and then put the food in the base, through continuously increase, take out the coal, can keep temperature is roughly constant temperature.
Steamed, also need to dig a hole. Cooking fish or other need to partially cooked food, such as plantain, green bananas, steam is the best way. With big leaves or moss encase food, before has been rolling out the coal pit
A good food, then spread a layer of leaves or moss, such food and leaf or moss layer for exchange, until the pit filled. Put a stick to make it through the food and leaf or moss layer, and then try to fill the hole with more leaves or soil, and then took out a stick. This is a slow but very effective cooking method.
Barbecue need skewer or skewers. In this way, you can almost any meat on the fire roast, only need to string the meat on sticks not poisonous, and then on the fire roast, until cooked. In this way can keep meat in the meat, it is a good way to cook all poultry or small animals.
