Rat Man
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Between the pot and the fire starter I'd go for the fire starter. Obviously there's no need to explain the usefulness of the pot. I'd say most of us here would be hard pressed to make a fire the old fashioned way. For those few who possess that skill, what happens if for your first week in the wild it's cold and rainy? You're screwed and probably dead. I can cook without a pot and eventually devise one of some sort. I can't survive without fire. As far as surviving on mostly vegetable matter, for me that wouldn't be much of an inconvenience, at least for the short term. I've been a Vegetarian for pretty good stretches of time. But long term, there are no vitamin supplements for you to take. So balanced nutrition would be difficult without meat. Plus living like that we'd burn a lot more calories. After a few months of weeds and berries we'd be pretty skinny. I have a pretty good knowledge of edible plants but surviving on just them would be difficult and dull. Eating meat would not only be comforting but it would provide much needed fat calories. I imagine most of my diet would be plants but I'd still be making fish traps, snares, deadfalls, hunting, scavenging, nest and den raiding, or anything else I could thing of to secure some occasional meat. And of course many bugs (ugh) are edible. Many are fatty like those big white log grubs. I see people eating them raw on TV. They look like giant maggots to me. I'd have to cook them if at all possible. Grasshoppers don't look that disgusting to me. I could eat them cooked. In the army they teach you to eat bugs if you're stranded. Gross as it may be, they might just keep you alive.
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