Ways to Find Food in Survival Situations

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When people find themselves in survival situations, they often forget that they need to procure nutritional food very quickly. High stress, injuries and other factors play a big part in forgetting to look for food in survival situations.

So how can you find food in survival situations? The first thing I would recommend here is to buy a good survival guide that has step-by-step instructions for finding food in a survival scenario. These can be purchased online and are very affordable. Keep your survival guidebook in your survival preparedness kit.




If a survival situation takes place in the city, you can find food in abandoned houses, cars, and office buildings. Due to the high possibility of violence and civil unrest during an intense survival situation, I would reccommend that you stay away from grocery stores and department stores as you could end up being injured and these supply stores will probably be guarded anyway.

If your survival situation occurs outdoors in the wilderness, you will need to improvise and be creative to find food. Learn how to use snares, pits, spears or a knife to trap and capture animals to eat. Also it is a good idea to learn about local plant life. You must be very careful about which plants you ingest as many plants have poisons or toxins that can worsen your situation.

If the situation is serious and you need nourishment right away, you may eat insects, grubs and other small creatures such as earthworms. This sounds disgusting but it could save your life. Take care which insects you eat as many insects are poisonous. Refer to your survival handbook often.

Learn how to make a fire to cook your survival food. Food poisoning can mean the difference between life and death in a survival scenario. Many websites teach detailed ways to capture and find survival food. Practice techniques when you are camping or hiking so you become familiar with them and have confidence in doing them.