Morphy wrote on May 29
th, 2017 at 9:09am:
Ive always wanted to try the inner bark of pine trees. Ive read the Adirondack used to eat it extensively. Considering how common pines are it would make a good survival food.
watched a program recently where a guy tried that.
Didn't give them any real sustenance and was exactly like eating wood.
They had aweek in deepest finland in the winter. The idea was to live weel off the land.
They barely got out alive. And if the english cook hadn't had the kiwi survivalist - he would have died.
In 7 days they managed 3 actual meals and chewed and spat out some wood.
One meal of berries and reindeer moss. One of about 3 tiny fish and on the last day they caught a small pike.
This while burning through several thousand calories a days. Oh yeah and the cook fell in a stream, without the other guy he'd have suffered frostbite at beast and fatal hypothermia at worst.
But because they had a decent meal of fish on the last day they reckoned it was a success.
I reckoned if they'd been there another week, they'd both have died.