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9 Bugs to Eat in a Survival Situation?
serf
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Time to teach us how to survive the coming apocalypse?
serf
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/9-bugs-to-eat-in-a-survival-situation-and-4-you-want-to-avoid
In a survival situation, you probably wouldn’t make it on bugs alone, despite what some sites would have you believe. But insects could certainly be an important part of what keeps you alive. Bugs are highly nutritious, with lots of proteins and vitamins and modest amounts of fat. Here are the things you should know.
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If eating bugs would save me ..................... I guess I'd just have to die.
Time to break out the Harvest Right, Food dehydrators, canning gear and buy some vegetarian cook books.
...The grubs make my mouth water, now I'm hungry...
There are a bunch of current movements by NGOs to use insects in third world countries as a protein supplement. I have eaten ants, crickets, grasshoppers, and grubs.........all were ok. I am not put off by it.
Too many Americans, though, will never embrace eating bugs.....and I don't think they will ever supplant or even really supplement the proteins that I cut up every day and sell in the meat market where I work.
Beef and chicken are just too tasty.
Well maybe -
But I would have to be awful desperate. Bob
Bugs will be a very last resort. If your planning to eat bugs......... then you did NOT plan correctly!
Just sayin'
If you ever lived on C-rations or MREs very long,bugs don't look too bad.
Famous quote from ole Quigley: "My stomach feels like my throats been cut!" 😁
Then again, John the Baptist lived on locusts and wild honey. I would need to ferment my honey before starting the main coarse myself! 😁
Have to coat them in chocolate
I would still take C-rats, with the exception on the green eggs and ham.......
Had a friend who was shot down in WW II. Found himself on a jungle island in the pacific, occupied by Japs and US army.
Was 10 days getting back to the US army line. I ask what he had to eat. His response, “you’d be surprised what you’d eat, when you get hungry enough”.
remember the line I think the orginal Rambo move
where his commander said something like he is trained to eat things most people would never even a goat would throw up or along those lines
found it
"Bugs" are arthropods. So are lobsters. They have been eaten in most of the world for thousands of years, from silk moth caterpillars, trantulas, grasshoppers, to bee larvae. I draw the line at the waters edge.
all you need is to watch documentary's or even you tube video's of markets around the world or having dinner with many cultures more insects for sale and being eaten than you can imagine when its part of your diet and generations have eaten them you just go with the flow
same with tree rats ( squirrels ) crawdads , groundhog , racoon and so many more that we eat here in the states that some people say NO way
my dad would never even try most sea food , that most costal people eat and never give it a second thought , but wild game rabbit and such or local fish was a good to go 😁
I like caterpillars. They tickle going down.
Reckon with about a pint or a six-pack in you, they would probably be OK.
I have no issues with people eating bugs. BUT when the govt is trying to MANDATE that we eat bugs instead of beef because global warming and saving the planet BS, then THAT is where I draw the line!
If there are bugs around then there are birds around, let the birds eat the bugs then eat the birds.
I used to be something of a startup prepper. My wife wasn't really into it but was OK to a point, as long as I didn't fill the house or anything crazy. I said 3 months. Somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that at any given time I probably would never have more than 2 months of some of my medication; most notably my pain meds. Without them, the withdrawals would suck, but once my back, sciatica down both legs, etc. inevitably flared up I wouldn't care about surviving any longer. Real long time members of this forum might remember that. Bugs won't be necessary.
BBH, I know just what you mean.
The ole sicaica nerve has all but put me down the week end.
As for SHTF, I really don't think we will last long enough to worry about it.