Survivorman - Food Survival
Written by Les Stroud Survival Expert
Last updated · 9 min play time
It's an all-consuming fear; going without food. But when it comes to survival, there are so many misconceptions about it. Test your survival food knowledge.
It's such an all-consuming fear; going without food. But there are so many misconceptions about this when it comes to survival. Take this quiz and find out what you really need to know about eating when you're lost and surviving. ...Les
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Question 1
How long can a person go without food?
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A2 days
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BAround a week
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CUntil lunchtime
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DAround 30 days
Around 30 days
Like going without water, you're already becoming incapacitated long before 30 days but most people last that long and sometimes longer.
Question 2
Eating more food in a survival situation will result in depleting valuable water out of your digestive system. True or False?
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ATrue
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BFalse
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CTrue, but only if the food is not cooked
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DTrue, but only if it is spicy food
True
Digestion always requires water from your body to work.
Question 3
Which one of these is considered one of the most perfect survival foods?
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APower Bars
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BPeanuts
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CCheese
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DPizza
Peanuts
Many experiments have been done, but in the end, peanuts always seem to come out on top as one of the best foods to consume if you only have one choice in a survival situation.
Question 4
What are some of the symptoms you will experience when going without food in a survival situation?
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AAggravation
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BBizarre dreams
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CLethargy
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DAll of the above
All of the above
The toughest part being lethargy because it becomes hard to get things done.
Question 5
You should always ration food if you find yourself in a survival situation. True or False?
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AFalse
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BFalse, you should gorge on as much food as possible at first to store the energy in your body for the future
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CTrue, but only if there are more than four people
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DTrue
True
A survival situation is always a 'you never know' moment, so rationing will always make sense even if rescue is on its way.
Question 6
What kind of non-meat or wild food is the easiest to find or pick in the wilderness?
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AThose that have ample amounts of green leaves growing in alternate formation
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BTree bark
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CBerries
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DThose that grow in profusion in easy to reach places such as "cattail/bullrush" on the edge of a swamp or pond
Those that grow in profusion in easy to reach places such as "cattail/bullrush" on the edge of a swamp or pond
It's all about calories out vs calories in. When you have to travel far or work hard to get a few leaves or berries you end up with a net loss caloric intake and will starve yourself.
Question 7
What is the biggest misleading aspect of gathering wild edibles?
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AThat it is hard
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BThat if you follow the animal's trails they will always lead you to a bounty of plants
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CThat they're always there, when in fact they are only there when in-season
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DThat it is easy
That they're always there, when in fact they are only there when in-season
If I had a nickel for everytime someone told me, "Oh you'll be fine, there will be thousands of berries there!" When, of course, I head out only to find out that I am one week too late or too early in the season.Increase your chances of surviving any situation. Join SurvivormanTV to improve your skills today and be prepared for whatever comes tomorrow. Your adventure starts now.
Question 8
When testing if something is poisonous (or if you have an allergy) before eating it safely, what three things can help?
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AHold it up to the sky and note if it is translucent (safe) or transparent (poison). Take a very deep inhale of the plant and wait 3 hrs for a reaction. Then crush and chew the leaves for 5 minutes and spit out.
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BLeave out in the sun to dry for 24hrs. Then crush dry leaves and burn in a pipe. If there's no reaction to inhaling, boil in water and drink as a soup.
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CTake the leaves and crush with your hands. Then boil in water for one hour. Then dry in the sun and use as a tea infusion only.
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DTouch it to your arm and wait 24 hours. Then touch it to your lips and wait 24 more hours. Then chew some and spit it out and wait a final 24 hours.
Touch it to your arm and wait 24 hours. Then touch it to your lips and wait 24 more hours. Then chew some and spit it out and wait a final 24 hours.
I would also add a final step of tasting a little with a swallow and waiting for another 24 hours, but that can be too long to wait in a dire situation.
Question 9
What is the best way to cook food in a survival situation?
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ABoil it
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BDry in the sun and eat as jerky
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CRoast it by the fire
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DFry it
Boil it
If you do need to cook your food, boiling is helpful as you can then also drink the broth getting additional nutrients.
Question 10
You must always cook wild meat found or caught in a survival situation. True of False?
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AFalse, but only if you hunted it
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BTrue
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CFalse
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DTrue, if you found it lying on the ground
False
Although there are some parasites and even diseases you can acquire from finding or hunting meat, if you have no way of cooking anything, then eating it raw will be just fine if it is the only way to keep yourself from starving.
Question 11
You must never ingest rotten meat. True or False?
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AFalse, if it is fish
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BTrue, if it is fish
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CFalse
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DTrue
False
We are generally squeamish about rotting or rotten food, but in fact, we can eat most of it without any ill effects whatsoever. We are accustomed to thinking about 'bad' meat as what might happen in the supply chain of a store. That process is entirely different (and indeed quite dangerous) compared to rotting meat found in the wild, like say a recent kill by a predator. In the wild, I have eaten lots of rotting food without issue.
Question 12
Assuming all things being equal and you have a rifle with ammunition, fishing tackle and snaring equipment, what is the easiest meat (assuming we count fish as meat) to catch in the wild?
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AMice
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BSquirrel
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CFish
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DRabbits
Fish
This one is tough because it's going to be geographically dependent, but assuming you are by a body of water with fish in it, they will always be the best bang for your buck in attempts to catch anything, notwithstanding a lot of variables including what equipment you might have.
Question 13
What is rabbit-starvation?
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ARabbits are so lean that if that's all you eat you slowly protein poison yourself to death.
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BWhen rabbits starve themselves as a way to escape lynx predation and therefore survive
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CWhen only one rabbit is caught, but there are more than 10 people eating
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DRabbit meat will actually deplete your body of vitamin C causing scurvy.
Rabbits are so lean that if that's all you eat you slowly protein poison yourself to death.
As easy as they are to snare, you're still going to need some fat to offset a very lean creature.
Question 14
Which is better, catching one large animal such as a deer and preserving it somehow or catching many fresh small animals?
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ASmall animals
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BDeer, but only during the rutting season
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CPizza
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DDeer
Deer
Why work too hard if you don't have to. If you can catch something big and preserve it, you are better off than taking your chances on small game every day.
Question 15
What diet is best when it comes to survival?
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AOmnivorous
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BPicky
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CVegan
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DCarnivorous
Omnivorous
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Question 16
How many calories per day might you use if you are working very hard at survival?
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AAs many as 5,000
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BYou do not use calories when you are working hard, you gain calories
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CAs many as 100
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DAs many as 10,000
As many as 5,000
This is an average number but its accurate for most body types. It will be higher in the winter.
Question 17
Which is a warning sign that an insect might be poisonous to eat?
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ABrightly colored
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BMakes loud chirping sounds
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CLives in rotted logs
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DHas a furry or hair-like covering
Brightly colored
There is no hard and fast rule, but this is one way to determine. Its kind of like the insect is giving you a fair warning that it has poison by being brightly colored. Even the birds know to avoid insects because of this.
Question 18
You can eat any berries that you see birds eating. True or false?
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AFalse
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BTrue in the southern hemisphere
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CFalse, but only if they are song birds
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DTrue
False
Birds can eat lots of berries that would otherwise make you and I sick so don't rely on that as a signal that something is safe to eat.
Question 19
If you are heading out to practice survival methods, before you head into the bush you should...
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ANot make any changes at all to your eating process.
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BEat a very small amount of food so that your stomach shrinks and you wont feel the hunger pangs so badly during your practice ordeal.
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CEat only fatty and starchy foods ahead of time.
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DEat a lot of food to fill yourself with fats and nutrition which will last you through your practice ordeal.
Not make any changes at all to your eating process.
Look, if you want a real experience, keep it real. No one would ever know that a survival situation is about to happen to them so trying to prepare your stomach is cheating you out of the real experience. If you're hungry the morning you start, eat breakfast. If not then don't. Just stay the same as you usually would before heading out for a true experience of what you might have to go through.
Question 20
What is a trick (based on the Inuit of the high Arctic) you can do with food to keep you warm while you sleep?
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AEat a chunk of fat (cheese is perfect) like whale blubber right before bed.
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BKeep all your recently cooked and still warm food tucked down into your bed for warmth.
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CPick the most difficult food to process, such as husking a coconut, and do so right before bed to get your blood moving and thereby warming your body up.
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DMake a pot of steaming wild edibles and breathe the steam deeply for two minutes right before sleeping.
Eat a chunk of fat (cheese is perfect) like whale blubber right before bed.
I learned this trick with blubber and then tried it with cheese and I always sleep warm and cozy like a baby when I do this.
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