edible bugs?

[blackfeetmageet]

I started a thread a while back called "eating bugs." If you can search for it you will be impressed. I have never really eaten bugs, but a lot of people chimmed in and there were even some good pics. It is probably the most underrated survival skill IMO.

I was most surprized my the banana slug comments. I see them all the time and repsect to those who claim to have no porb eating them.

 

[otis williams]

mealworms aren't bad. there are people, in the u.s. even, who raise them as their primary meat source. they're pretty good pan fried with some taco seasoning.

 

[Anrkst6973]

I've eaten bugs as a test of/in mind prep. Its not as bad as you think but I recomend frying over boiling..make them a little bit more palatable. Think of it like this, Imagine yourself in a survival sitution having been without food for 24-48 hours, see yourself trying to make traps or snares or do other tasks while your hands are shaky,your mind fuzzy and your stomach growling. Bugs are easy to find/catch and a few greens,,presto! stir fry! Giving your snares,traps,fishing lies ect time to do their work and you clarity to do what you need to do to effect "not dying". I try to stay with earthworms,grubs and jointed hoppers like grasshoppers,crickets. Believe it or not there a whole section in the Biblical Old Testament (Exodus I think) devoted to what kinds of bugs could be eaten and what could not.

 

[mikeal]

I read somewhere that if you can knock down a wasp nest and wait until the wasps abandon it, they will leave the pupae which may be there in quantity.


Good eats?