

SUMMER, SPRING, FALL  WINTER:

LIST OF EDIBLE ROOTS:

HOW TO PREPARE COMESTIBLE PLANTS:

If you soak, boil, cook or filter your food you get a better
taste. Tusk have better taste when filtered: You smash the
food and dump boiling water over them through some kind of
strainer even your shirt or some clean cloth can be used.

PLANTS & LEAVES WARNING:

The colour RED associated with a plant in Tropical or Sub-
Tropical areas can be regarded as a DANGER SIGNAL. Any
plants that show red in any parts of its growth in its
fruits, in its leaves or in its stalks should be regarded
with suspicion unless you know for certain that it is
absolutely safe.

Rhubarb has a red stalk and is good yet the leaves are
Deadly when cooked. The tomato belongs to the Solarium
family of which is the Deadly Nightshade  yet it is quite
good. Strawberries or Raspberries are also good, they are
found in the Northern hemisphere.

SO UNLESS YOUR ARE ABSOLUTELY SURE BETTER NOT TAKE A CHANCE.

This is particularly applicable to Tropical Berries and fruits.

ANOTHER GENERAL SIGN OF PROBABLE POISON IS ANY FRUIT WHICH
IS DIVIDED INTO 5 DIVISIONS.

This a generalisation but better cautious than overbold and
dead. 

BEWARE! COLOURED SAP:

OF ALL TREES WHICH HAVE A COLOURED SAP, WHITE, RED OR BLACK.

Many of these saps are a danger signal and some particularly
the white saps can inflict painful burns to skin or if
allowed in the eye can cause blindness.

Also Beware of the Ground Trefoils particularly those which have
little corns or tubers they are OFTEN POISONOUS.

WATER FROM PLANTS & VINES: TRY THIS METHOD! (Tropic)

On a vine at its highest peak, make a deep cut, then:  Cut
the vine very close to ground level and let the water run
into your mouth or in a container. When the water ceases to
run, start all over the same method till the vine runs out.

LEAVES EDIBLE:

Leaves of many trees and shrubs and ground plants ARE
EDIBLE,  can easily sustain life. The only test is to taste
the leaf. (Tasting alone is safe. DO NOT SWALLOW!

NUTS & CEREALS:

These keep reasonably well provided they are not allowed to
get damp but will keep better if dried. Place them on hot
rocks from the fire, turning them frequently until
thoroughly dried. They should then be kept in damp-proof
containers.

SEEDS & NUTS WARNING:

A few seeds contain DEADLY POISON and these poisons CAN NOT
BE DETECTED BY THE PALATE.

In general a bitter, strongly acid or burning hot taste is a
sign of poisonous contents. 

     ANY SEED WITH THESE TASTE MUST BE AVOIDED.

THE MERE ACT OF TASTING WILL NOT AFFECT YOU. THE POISON MAY
BE TASTED BUT NOT SWALLOWED. If tasting then found dangerous
just spit it out, there will not be any ill-effect.

NUTS & WARNING:

They are of course seeds, yet many nuts contain poison. This
is ALWAYS detected by the palate and in nearly all instances
where it occurs; it can be dissolved by either boiling or
soaking in water for 10 to 12 hours. 

Other nuts such as the Candle Nut a relative of the Tung Nut 
is a violent purgative. Again by boiling or baking  it may render

them harmless. Unless you are certain, treat all nuts with
suspicion and taste them before eating, if taste indicates
no poisons then eat a small quantity. If there is no ill-
effects within an hour the nut will be safe.

GRAINS & SEEDS:

Grains are enclosed in a husk. Dry them thoroughly to allow
the grain to crack out. Thresh or trash it with a flail,
stick or rock or if the grain is very malleable, rub it
between your hands. Shake out on to a flat container and
occasionally toss into the air in a breeze (winnowing). The
husks (chaff) will blow away leaving the heavier seed
behind.

ROOTS & TUBERS:

MOST OF THE ROOTS & TUBERS ARE SAFE but almost all MUST be
boiled or heat treated in some way before they are
digestible.

The common potato is almost valueless as food unless cooked.

ROOTS TIP 2:

SOME ARE TOXIC BUT THE TOXINS ARE DESTROYED BY HEAT.

ALWAYS cook roots; boiling will make the toughest ones
tender. Roast roots are very tasty; but boil them first. Try
boiling for 5 minutes then place them in a hole dug beneath
the fire, cover with ash & embers & leave until tender.

BARK:     (Tree not dog)

The interior bark of a tree (the layer immediately covering
the wood) CAN BE EATEN  RAW OR COOKED. By smashing to powder
the interior bark of Cotton-tree, Aspen, Birch, Willow or
Pine. You will obtain a flour.

The outside bark can not be used for this purpose being too
strong in taste. PINE BARK IS RICH IN VITAMIN C. Scrape off
the exterior layer and keep only the part that clings to the
tree. You can eat it fresh dried, cooked or crushed.

REMEMBER NOT ALL FLOWERING PLANTS ARE EDIBLE.
          MANY ARE POISONOUS.

CEREAL BOOST:

Also true according to Macrobiotics that cereal seeds left
in water to sprout after 24-48 hours will help in case of
survival and very nourishing especially Lucerne which is
really rich in proteins. To pursue this and a series of a
few more seeds

MPF FOOD:

To investigate there exist a flour especially made and rich
in vitamin and mineral called MPF: Multipurpose Emergency Food.

FRUITS:

Fruit and berries can be dried whole or cut into slices and
dried by sun, smoke or heat.. Fruits can usually be eaten dry.

GREEN VEGETABLES:

Wash in clean water and boil for just long enough to make
them tender. They are often and easily overcooked. Tender
plants can be gently steamed if you are sure that they are
safe to eat. Add to stew after the meat are cooked and
already tender. Eat fresh greens Raw as salad.

EVERY NECESSITY IS FREE!: HUM! Try that with your Tax Man?

Anyone at anytime can suddenly find himself dependent on his
own resources for survival.  It costs little time, money &
efforts to be ready for such an emergency. If you are NOT
ready, it may cost your life or someone dear to you.

Henry Thoreau noted: I learned that a man may use as simple
a diet as the animals & yet retain health & strength. One
can make a satisfactory dinner off a dish of Purslane
gathered & boiled. 

Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve not
from want of necessaries but for want of luxuries. To survive one
does not need caviar & champagne.

MOSS AS FOOD PRESERVING:

The moss keeps humidity for a long time thus can be used to
keep meat, fruits or vegetables.  (NOT Fish! NO!) Cover the
food with this moss tightly pressed and put them in a damp
box away from predators. Put a bed of that tightly press
moss at the bottom of the box too.

PRESERVING LEAVES, ROOTS BARK:

Sort them out to keep only the good ones and let them dry at
least 48 hours away from the sun, then bag it in Humidity
Proof containers to use it when you need them.

SAND PRESERVING:

Many vegetables can be kept by just putting them under a
thick layer of dry sand.

BAKING IS ALSO VERY SUITABLE FOR  ROOT & VEGETABLES:

FRUIT KEEPING:

Plantain, Banana, Bread-Tree fruits, leaves, berries etc.
can be sun dried, wind dry, or on fire with or without
smoke. Cut fruits in thin slice place it to the sun or near fire.

PRESERVING FRUITS:

To preserve fruits, carefully wash some white sand with
water till the water is clear and #limpid#. Next pour some
cognac or alcohol on this washed sand.

Now put in a wooden or earth jars your fruits and pour the
sand over them all at least 2 inches above & keep the whole
thing in a temperate place. The fruits will keep for several
years.

VEGETABLE PRESERVING:

Carrots and Turnips will keep fresh longer after you have
picked them if you have taken the precaution to bury them up
to the root into clean damp sand contained in a jar, don't
remove the roots but use them to pick your vegetable easily.

APPLE PRESERVING:

Sand that was well dried in the sun and spread over
alternatively on apples, a layer of sand then one of apple
etc. and the last one being sand of course kept in a barrel
will keep the apples all winter long. The sand will preserve
all dampness to rot the apple.

STEAMING PLANTS:

IT DOES NOT OVERCOOK SO IT PRESERVES ALL NUTRITIONAL VALUES.
(ESSENTIAL in Survival)

It is an excellent way of cooking fish and green vegetables.
Fresh young leaves take Very Little cooking. The foodstuff
needs to be suspended in the steam away from boiling water.

Make a simple steamer by punching holes in a can and
suspending it inside a large can, or putting something in
the bottom of the large can to keep the inner one above the
water. Cover the outer can so that steam is not dissipated,
but not so tightly that it is sealed or pressure could build
up and cause it to explode. ((OOOPSSS!)

HONEY & EXHAUSTION:

Honey is so rapidly assimilated by the body that if given by
any means to a person unconscious from exhaustion, it will
be almost IMMEDIATELY assimilated & restore consciousness
and strength.

#VEGETARISM#:  (Or Dinosaurs spare-ribs?)

REMEMBER the story of the farmer who said; you can not live
on vegetable food only for it furnishes nothing to make
bones with, yet all the while he was talking behind his oxen
which with vegetable-made bones jerk him and his plough all
along. Hum? 
