Food in the Wild

Anytime you find yourself in a survival situation, be it a short-term emergency or a long-term survival scenario, supplementing your food stores with wild-caught animal protein might make the difference between life and death. Unfortunately, the vagaries of your circumstances might mean that you wind up eating meat that is anything but your usual fare. […]

Being in a survival situation means you must adapt, and make the best possible use of what resources you have at hand. When it comes to necessities like water, shelter, and food, want will have nothing to do with it. If you’re out of food and want to eat, all that matters knows what you

When you are in any kind of survival situation, you’re wants and preferences are probably going to go out the window in service of the raw necessity of doing what is necessary to stay alive. This will certainly be the case when it comes to sourcing food in the wild to eat. There are all

I think most of us would admit to remembering our first taste of that sweet, delectable nectar squeezed out of a honeysuckle bloom when growing up. It seems like it is a childhood ritual all around the world, but is it possible that honeysuckle can do more for us than just serving as a beautiful

Everyone talks about it, but few people really stop to consider what it means to do what you have to in order to survive. Whether you are in a fight for your life in the middle of the wilderness or enduring a long-term, paradigm-shifting survival scenario in the remains of society, life is definitely going

Consuming insects has been a part of different cultures for as far back as history can be recalled. Entomophagy is the practice of eating insects and it has exploded in popularity as people are looking for a sustainable alternative food source. Crickets are a common source of food for those that consume insects. It has

When you are in the middle of a survival situation, you’ll have to do what you have to if you want to survive. Not what you want to, not what you like, but what you have to. Sometimes a necessity means you’ll eat unpleasant things that you wouldn’t normally consider. But, if you have the

Surviving isn’t camping. When you are camping, you are generally having fun even when you are working hard, you’ve probably prepared with ready-made meal options, or even a proper menu for the journey, and you can always tuck tail and go home when things get too bad. But when you are surviving, pretty much everything

An old joke marks the difference between camping and surviving in the wilderness as how often you are doing things you really don’t want to do. When you are camping, it’s a recreational activity. If you’re surviving, necessity will be the only driver of your every action. This certainly includes what is on the menu

If you find yourself in a long-term survival situation after the collapse of society or just a typical wilderness survival scenario where you must provide for all of your necessities until rescued, you might well end up eating things that you don’t normally eat. This might include animals that we ordinarily consider anything but food,