Food is a motivator. Whether it’s super nutritious food or a candy bar loaded with sugar, food is a motivator. Here are ’22 emergency foods that could save your life’ and you’re going to learn about these emergency foods from the Real Survivors.
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Have you ever heard of The 03 Threes?
- You can go 03 weeks without food before serious mental and physical effects on your body.
- You can go 03 days without water before serious mental and physical effects on your body.
- You can go 03 minutes without air before serious mental and physical effects on your body. Food is a great morale builder, plus it gives you ENERGY to survive your ordeal. Here are 22 Emergency Foods That Could Save Your Life!
- Acorns
- Blood Vittles – The Perfect Emergency Survival Food!
- African Blood Vittles
- Blood And Milk Food
- Blood Stew
- Bloody Thirst Remedy
- Buffalo Marrow Blood Soup
- Buffalo Blood Pudding
- Buffalo Red Milk
- Camel Blood Vittles
- Donner Party Blood Food
- Gulag Blood Food
- Irish Blood Food
- POW Chicken Blood
- Roasted Blood
- Catching Ants
- Cattail Food
- Emergency Salt Source
- Grass
- Grass Seeds
- Herter Mud Soup
- Kephart’s 7th Emergency Food
- “300,000 Plants On Earth – Edibility Test!”
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Acorns: One overlooked edible is the acorn. You see those critters always eating them and they are plentiful. Acorns come from the hard wood trees – oak trees. Oak trees can be found all over. The acorn itself usually ripens in the months of July and August and are plentiful – very plentiful. And speaking of plentiful, they’re rich in calcium, magnesium, potassium, fat, protein,…
However, the very bitter acorn must be prepared prior to consumption. Even though some Indian tribes were known to eat them raw, they are very bitter to the novice. To rid them of the bitter taste, boil them for several minutes change water and boil them again. Do this 03 or 04 times, check for taste. Another technique is to boil them in water and add some ashes from your firepit to rid the acorns of their bitter taste.
Acorns are so plentiful, Indian Tribes collected so many that they weighed over a hundred pounds in one gathering. I’ve lived around oak trees and I’ve practically skidded & slipped on them – there’s so many! Acorns could be made‑up into stews, bread,…
Oak trees from where the acorns are derived also had medicinal values. The green bark was made into a tea and used as an astringent (reduce – stop bleeding), anti-diuretic and for bad-smelling feet.
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Blood Vittles – The Perfect Emergency Survival Food! I consolidated most of the blood related survival segments in this one section so to emphasize that blood could be a life-saver in a survival crisis.
Blood from animals and humans has been used for centuries as a regular meal and as an emergency food.
Blood is the “circulating tissue” of the body. (The fluid and its suspended formed elements that are circulating through the heart, arteries, capillaries and veins by the means of which oxygen and nutritive materials are transported to tissues, and carbon dioxide and various metabolic products are removed for excretion). Blood consists of plasma in which are suspended red and white corpuscles, platelet, fat globules and a great variety of chemical substances including carbohydrates, proteins, hormones and gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Blood consists of approximately 78% water and 22% solids.
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African Blood Vittles: Masai located in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya (southeastern Africa) are a nomadic people and their population number approximately 250,000. Cattle are their lives. Cattle provide their food (blood, meat, milk), their materials for shelter (skin for clothing and dung to seal their houses), and the number of cattle each family possesses relates to their status and wealth.
The Masai use a special hollow arrow to pierce the vein of cattle and sheep. The arrow has a stop on it so it doesn’t pierce deep into the neck. Blood is drawn from the vein and consumed on the spot.
The special arrow is plugged at the opening so it can be used for a future quick meal.
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Blood And Milk Food: African bushmen used blood and milk from their cattle for food. The cattle are rotated so they don’t give blood every day. About 07 cattle are bled each day by puncturing their jugular veins. It’s bled for a specific quantity so not to kill the animal. About 07 bled cattle will feed about 50 tribesmen. Milk from cattle are also a continuous food source.
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Blood Stew: On a rare occasion, American POWs located at Cabanatuan POW Camp, Philippines (WWII) were allowed to slaughter a carabao (water buffalo). This one kill didn’t even start to feed the 2,500 – 3,000 POWs. Every drop of blood was saved and a stew made from it.
The blood was mixed with green plants to make blood stew. No doubt the meat was dressed and cooked. Bones were eaten and I’m sure the major organs were eaten too.
Food was very limited, POWs did everything imaginable to survive. POWs with home-made bats were noted to stake-out rat holes for hours on end waiting for rats to emerge. Rats were a tasty dinner and provided much needed protein. Cats and dogs were a rare delicacy.
Any cat or dog that dare come close to the fence or worse yet wander in the compound were immediately grabbed, dressed and eaten. To the POWs, cats and dogs were like a Thanksgiving turkey feast.
But with all the food scrounging by POWs, hundreds still died. They lived on starvation diets, lived in filth, had no decent medical care, were over-worked, were beaten, executed,… Yet the stubborn POWs never quit.
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Bloody Thirst Remedy: During desperate times, US cavalry soldiers dying from lack of water were so thirsty they cut their own veins to quench their thirst drinking their own blood. They also used the blood to remedy their painful cracked lips.
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Buffalo Marrow Blood Soup: Old West mountain men, cowboys, pioneers,… called buffalo marrow “trappers butter.” Many thought the buffalo’s marrow (soft material of fat cells, blood cells,… inside bone) was a delicacy and ate it straight from the cracked bones. But mountain men made a soup from this delicious bone marrow so there was more to go around.
Approximately a pound of marrow was put in a pot where 01-gallon of water was added and heated to almost the boiling point. Then buffalo’s blood was added and stirred till it became the consistency of rice soup.
Some salt and pepper was added for taste and you have buffalo marrow soup fit for any outdoors adventurer. No, you don’t need a buffalo to make it, any other big game critter or several small game critters will do just fine to make delicious and nutritious marrow soup.
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Buffalo Blood Pudding: Buffalo Blood Pudding was made by filling the buffalo’s stomach with its own blood and then cooked above the radiating heat of hot coals.
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Buffalo Red Milk: Buffalo milk. No, we’re talking blood here. After the buffalo was down for the count. The throat was cut and the hunter drank its blood. Hunters stated the blood tasted like ‘warm milk.’ And as I’ve stated many times in my books, blood was an emergency food source that saved many lives.
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Camel Blood Vittles: Before Islam was founded (1300s), Arabs ate a nutritious meal of camel hair and blood. The blood and camel hair was mixed together and cooked over a fire.
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Donner Party Blood Food: Blood is liquid food. Members of the Donner Party consumed this liquid food to save themselves. “He finally settled by holding the weapon up and dropping it lining up the sights of the dropping weapon on the deer and firing at the Deer – POW!
He knew he hit it cause the deer not only jumped straight up a couple feet but its short tail dropped straight down between its legs. Eddy and Mrs. Graves pursued the deer for 02-hundred yards. Eddy came upon the deer, grabbed its horns while it struggled and cut its throat. Both Eddy and Mrs. Graves hungrily sucked-up the warm blood spurting and flowing from the deer’s neck. Their faces were covered with deer blood from their warm liquid meal. They rested, built a fire, then roasted some of the deer’s innards (liver, heart,…). That night, Eddy fired some “we’re OK” shots to the others.”
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Gulag Blood Food: How many times have I given you real international survival across the globe using blood as an emergency food source? Here’s another way to prepare blood as an emergency food source straight from the Gulag out of freezing Siberia, Russia.
In the infirmary, it was discovered that a large amount of donated blood was too old to use for blood transfusions. The head nurse asked how to dispose of the blood? A doctor responded “Add some sugar to it for taste and serve it to the patients as a protein supplement.” The head nurse followed orders and issued the sickly patients their rations of sweet blood at the dinner meal. Since blood is loaded with protein and other nutrients, the head nurse thought nothing of it, especially with the food shortages. The head nurse was fired for “cannibalism” but re-hired later.
As it turns out, Janusz Bardach saw blood as a great way to help the malnourished as well as making some money on the side – legally and via the black market. Bardach arranged for Eskimos to draw blood from reindeers. The reindeer blood was collected and transported during the winter months so it remained fresh as possible.
The reindeer blood was called Hematogen and sold as a “high caloric protein supplement” which is exactly what it was. Prisoners did most of the work and Hematogen turned out to be a great selling product that nourished the malnourished and even benefited already healthy customers.
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Irish Blood Food: Hundreds of years ago in the counties of Derry and Tyrone counties (central northern Ireland), blood was preserved as a food source in times of food scarcity. Blood was allowed to coagulate in layers. Between the layers, salt was added as a preservative. The layers of coagulated blood eventually hardened and stowed away for future use.
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POW Chicken Blood: The POWs (Vietnam) were lucky and given a chicken to eat. Preparing the chicken, their captors told them to use the blood for cooking. The entire chicken goes in the pot – everything except for feathers, stomach and lower intestines. Even the feet were eaten. The POWs ate the cooked chicken with vegetation. The chicken had so much fat – grease in it that the POWs systems weren’t use to it and all POWs had renewed diarrhea.
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Roasted Blood: Up the Nile River (longest river in the world – 4,145 miles), one tribe eats blood like we eat candy. The blood is allowed to sit so it coagulates (thickens) into lumps where it’s roasted over a fire. They also boil the blood to a thicken state where upon it’s eaten. Mmmmmmm!
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Catching Ants: Since ants are so available, here’s a technique used by the Yupka tribe located in eastern Columbia to capture handfuls of ants. First the ant colony nest is located. Around the ant nest, they dig a 360-degree moat. When it rains, the moat fills with water. The water overflows into the ant nest entrance where hordes of ants evacuate their nest. Fleeing the nest the ants go swimming where they’re easily captured. Soldier and worker ants and eggs are easily captured. The Yupka tribe commonly envelopes heaps of ants in large green leaves where the ants are roasted next to a fire (not directly on fire).
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Cattail Food: I know you’ve seen these very common plants growing near waterways, marshes, swamps, ponds, irrigation ditches,… all over the US and North America. This long, thin stalked plant has a puffy bloom spike at the top of the stalk that looks somewhat like a puffed-up cigar. It’s accompanied by long, flat leaves growing from the base of the stalk.
The common cattail is overlooked as a food source. Starting from the bottom, the root shoot, root, stalk, green bloom spike, young leaves, pollen, and seeds are all edible and had other uses!
Pound for pound, cattails are so plentiful in food that a researcher from Syracuse University proved it. In the late 1940s, a botanist, Leland Marsh estimated that if cattail were commercially grown, an acres worth of the cattail rhizome (root) alone equaled 10-times the yield of an acre of potatoes! Now that’s a lot of chow! And that’s only the root! And turn an acre of rhizomes (roots) into flour, Marsh estimated the yield would be 02 tons of flour! 32 tons, far greater than an acre of the popular wheat, rye,… Marsh even found a technique to turn the flour into ethyl alcohol! The cattail has so much potential to help you survive Anytime Anywhere, I’ll stop right here.
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Emergency Salt Source: The body needs salt to function properly and cowboys, pioneers, Texas Rangers, Indians insured they had salt in some way, shape, or form in their diets. But what if salt was nowhere to be had? Here’s what savvy cowboys did for emergency salt. They licked the horse sweat from their saddles to keep from dying of salt deprivation.
But what if you don’t have a sweaty horse, what are you going to do? Look at your footgear. See any salt stains seeping through your boots. Through plenty of patrolling, exercise,… I’ve salted my boots plenty plenty of times and that’s an emergency salt source so start licking them boots.
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Grass: Cows eat it why not you? There are approximately 10,000 species of grass on the planet. A while back (1950s), there was a news headline “Boy Lives Five Days On Diet of Grass”, an 11-year old boy was rescued between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
He stated he lived on grass! Researchers stated whether it’s the famous & common Kentucky Blue Grass or plain ol’ grass in your backyard, grass is a sufficient food source.
During WWII in England when food was getting scarce, according to Professor D.B. Johnstone-Wallace of Cornell University: “England is prepared to use grass for food if supplies run low.” Even eating it himself, he stated “Green grass is nutritious and taste really fine.”
Heck you eat oatmeal, toast,… for breakfast and they’re part of the grass family, so why not grass? Young grass is rich in chlorophyll (natures cleanser), vitamins A, B, G, and K. As a matter of fact, it’s estimated that only 12 pounds of powdered grass contains more vitamins than 340 pounds of fruits & vegetables combined. Grass is eaten just like it is or dried-up and powdered. This very common edible plant deserves its own IRISAP Special Report. I’ll let you know more in the future on this super nutritious plant.
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Grass Seeds: Yes, grass seeds are edible too. American Indians are noted to have eaten more than 50 different types of grass seeds like Johnson, Dropseed, Giant Dropseed, Barntyard, Panic,… grasses. These grass seeds can be seen growing along creeks, irrigation ditches, in fields,… But you’ll have to work for em’, the grass seeds are small and takes some effort to harvest.
Indians would put a large basket beneath the growing grass and strip the seed by hand having the seeds fall into the basket. Some would beat the seeds to separate them from the chaff. Another method would be to put everything in a bag, vigorously shake it – the seeds (heavier) would gather at the bottom of the bag separating from the chaff. Another method to insure separation of chaff & seeds is to place everything in water. The cleaned seeds should sink to the bottom while the chaff and other debris is skimmed-off. The grass seeds can be prepared by grinding them into a powder/flour form to make bread, boiled to make mush, gravy…
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Herter Mud Soup: George Leonard Herter, author of several self-reliant publications. Silt or mud located at the bottoms of lakes, ponds,… provides a wealth of nutrients. The bottoms of lakes, ponds,… have accumulated organic food from plants, insects, clams, crayfish,… over thousands of years. And this mud that’s rich in nutrients can be eaten as a valuable food source. And the best way to prepare Herter Mud Soup is to make it into a soup. Herter states a complement of dandelion leaves, juniper berries, wild grape leaves or wild leeks will add to the flavor of this mud soup.
And to prove Herter Mud Soup is a nutritious life-saving food source, a World famous scientist from East African Fisheries Research Organization – named Robert Beauchamp, conducted many scientific tests on mud and silt found at the bottom of Lakes Victoria, Africa. He found the mud and silt rich in food. To prove it, he and his family ate the Lake Victoria mud and everyone gained weight.
WARNING: Due to disease-causing micro-organisms, parasites,… boil the Herter Mud Soup for at least 05-minutes.
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Kephart’s 7th Emergency Food: Horace Kephart was born on 08 September 1862 when the American Civil War was already several months old. A very avid outdoorsman, Kephart wrote volumes on camping. So much so and evident was his expertise, Kephart is known as the “Dean of American Campers.” One of his most complete writings is his combined 02-Volume, 405-page & 479-page book is Camping And Woodcraft which is rich in camping tricks of the trade.
You know when it really gets tough to procure food in the wilderness and there ain’t no meat, plants, insects,… You already know that ‘dirt’ is an edible emergency food. But if you can’t stomach eating dirt, like I can’t stomach eating them 08-legged critters – spiders, then what about eating wood. Savvy North American Indians and other survivors ate a variety of foods from a variety of trees and their tree parts as a survival food and you should know about them if it really gets bad.
a) Oak Bark: Oak bark was gathered, cooked and pounded to a soft consistency. It was re-cooked in fish oil broth to make a stew.
b) Birch Bark: Birch bark was gathered, cooked and pounded to a soft consistency. It was re-cooked in fish oil broth to make a stew.
c) Linden Bark: Linden bark was gathered, cooked and pounded to a soft consistency. It was re-cooked in fish oil broth to make a stew.
d) Green Oak Bark: Green oak bark was dried by a fire and pounded to a soft consistency. It was cooked to a consistency of oatmeal.
e) White Cedar Saplings: Ojibwa Indians took the young saplings of the white cedar and cooked them into a sweet-tasting soup.
f) Staff Tree: Also called shrubby bittersweet (Celastrus scandens), was used by the Chippewa Indians. They boiled the thick bark into a sweet-tasting food.
g) Inner Bark Foods: In Spring time, the inner barks of trees were made into survival foods. Inner barks from trees like hemlock, pine, spruce,… Other inner barks are alder, basswood, birch, cottonwood, pignut hickory, poplar, quaking aspen, sassafras, slippery elm [most nutritious], striped maple, sweet bay, white elm and yellow locust.
h) Buds: In Spring time, the buds of trees were made into survival foods. Buds from trees like maple, poplar, wild rose,…
Most Important Note: These are just a partial list of trees that offer food from their barks, inner barks, buds,… We ought to also consider their leaves too. And also consider all those bushes, flowers, weeds,… out there and their different parts. So MANY!
Remember, each survivor must do an Edibility Test – see 300,000 Plants On Earth – Edibility Test at the beginning of this Survival Book.
Remember as I stated: “There are approximately 300,000 types of plants that grow on the Earth’s surface, in salt water and in fresh water. Of these 300,000 plants on Earth, 120,000 varieties are edible. Tasting or swallowing even a small portion of some of these edible plants may cause severe discomfort, extreme internal disorders, or death to those who may be allergic to even so-called edible plants. Therefore, if you have the slightest doubt as to the edibility of a plant, apply this Edibility Test.” – See 300,000 Plants On Earth – Edibility Test below.
“300,000 Plants On Earth – Edibility Test!”
(There’s Food All Around You)
300,000 Plants On Earth – Edibility Test: Depending what you read, there are approximately 300,000 to 350,000 plants on this Earth. OK, let’s STOP right there. There’s no way 300,000 plants are within your reach to test for edibility. So let’s do some math. Odds are you’re located on land. At the high end, the Earth is covered with 70% water (oceans, seas, lakes, ponds, swamps, rivers, streams). So 70% of 300,000 is 210,000. 300,000 minus 210,000 comes to 90,000 plants. YES, I know most plants are on land and not on or under water. I’m just doing a worst case scenario. OK, let’s carry-on. And since you’re located at one specific spot on the Earth let’s divide that 90,000 divided by 10,000 which comes to 09. Odds are no matter where you’re located on land, there are 09 plants within walking distance that may be edible to your body type. OK, let’s carry-on.
Plants that are located below water (fresh water & salt water), on surface water, below ground, on the surface and growing on rocks and other plants. Plants are at the bottom of the food-chain and are the MOST EASIEST to procure in emergency food procurement situations. Eating plants could save your life. Plants provide a host of needed nutrients like protein, minerals, sugars, vitamins,…. But not all plants are edible to humans and when a specific plant is edible, one plant may be good for one survivor but harmful to another survivor. So how does each survivor find edible plants, insects, small game, big game,…? Each survivor must conduct an Edibility Test for each and every plant, insect, small game, big game,… and here it is the Edibility Test:
STEP 01) Inspect for prickly thorns, fine hairs, bright ‘WARNING’ color. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant. If there are no prickly thorns or fine hairs, proceed to STEP 02. YES, this Edibility Test can be applied to all other consumables.
STEP 02) Place (pinch or rub) a small portion of the plant to your lip and test for burning or itching. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 03.
STEP 03) After three minutes, place the plant on your tongue for fifteen minutes and test for any discomfort. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 04.
STEP 04) Thoroughly chew the plant and hold it in your mouth for fifteen minutes and test for any discomfort. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 05.
STEP 05) Swallow the plant material and test for any discomfort. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 06.
STEP 06) Wait eight hours and test for any discomfort. If evident it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 07.
STEP 07) Eat 1\2 cup of the same plant and wait another eight hours and test for any discomfort. If evident, it is likely inedible. Try another plant and re-start at STEP 01. If not, proceed to Step 08.
STEP 08) If there are no signs of any type of discomfort or internal disorders, the plant is safe for eating. INSURE you mark that specific plant, tree, bush… for safe eating for future procurement!
1st WARNING: A plant may be acceptable to one survivor but may not be acceptable to another. It is highly advised that each survivor in your survival party conduct their own edibility test for each and every plant to insure the safe consumption of each plant.
2nd WARNING: Avoid all mushrooms unless you’re a qualified EXPERT (Mycologist) on identifying edible and poisonous mushrooms!
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MOST IMPORTANT NOTE: Now that you read & viewed ’22 emergency foods that could save your life’ – You’re Ready Anytime Anywhere. However, before you go out on your next outdoor adventure, please re-read “How To Plan Your Outdoor Adventure!”
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