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Minimalist Wilderness Food by @cahlen on 3Speak
After years of living outside experimenting with various foods seeking to minimize cost and effort and to maximize satiety, health and accessibility this is what I've settled upon. --- DONATE: CONT...
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Hey everyone, Kellynne here, and in this video I'm going to talk about my minimalist, survival food setup, okay? So, I've spent several years living outside for season, and I'm now just getting back into it. And during that time, I was experimenting with lots of different things, trying to find the perfect food, which I could carry a lot of, and that I could prepare without needing to heat it up, and was inexpensive, feeling, and healthy, okay? So I'm going to talk about that, but first I'm going to say, finding food is the third most important thing you need to know when you're living outside, okay? So first, how to stay warm and dry, and how to clean wilderness water, which of the last two videos that I made. But food is the next thing that you need. You can live a long time without food, weeks or even months, but... you're not really going to have the energy that you need to do the things that you're going to need to do when living outside if you're fasting for long periods of time. And it's going to get worse over time, okay? And the longer you go, the less easy it's going to become for you to actually find food. So you need to keep yourself fed. So, ideally, you would be surviving off of the actual food that is around you. Okay, so there's lots of foraging that you can do. There's lots of food, like plants that you can eat. like dandelion, and right now there's rose hips all over the place, but it's going to be hard for you to eat, find that amount of food that you need in that type of food that's going to keep you actually satiated and have enough calories. It's going to give you the nutrients you need, but not really the energy, okay? So if you want the energy and you want the protein, then you're going to have to get into fishing and hunting, okay? So I have experienced fishing, and I have a tankara fly fishing rod, which I can go and fish with. and then, of course, you would need to cook it, so you would need heat. But hunting is another option, but the downside of hunting is that you need to carry tools with you, which are usually heavy, okay? So a rifle or shotgun, that's quite a bit of bulk you have to carry with you. It's fairly expensive, and you're going to run into all kinds of issues, you know, depending on what jurisdiction you're in, what state, and what are there laws about what you can carry and how, okay? So from my minimalist perspective, hunting is kind of out, you know, even bow hunting, bow hunting is still got to carry the bow and all the arrows, and it's pretty hard to be successful at that, okay? But if you can do those things and you don't need to rely on society at all, then that would be ideal, okay? I'm not personally to that point, and so I do rely on food that I can get from society. And the food that I use is oatmeal, okay? and protein powder. So I basically have a big bag, huge bag of quick oats. Okay, so these are quick dried oats. The reason you want them to be quick oats is because you can just eat them dry, and you can just soak them in cold water for a little bit if you want something more like oatmeal. And you can heat them up too if there's not a burn ban and you have a stove. and all that kind of stuff. But you don't need any of that. You don't even need water to eat these. You can just take a bunch, put in your mouth, and swallow it, and that's going to make you feel full, because when it gets down into your stomach, it's going to start to get water into it, and it's going to expand, and that's going to make you feel more satiated. Okay, but before I show you all that, I'm going to talk about the various tools, okay? So first, there's the bag. This is a dry sack. This one's made by CETA Summit. It's the Big River 20 liter, okay? This is waterproof, it's fairly thick. You know, I use this as my pillow, and I also will sit on it, and it's semi-resistant to rodents. Like last night, a rodent was coming in and started to gnaw on, it was making noise, it woke me up, and I shoot him away, okay? They would get through it, you know, if I wasn't around, but, you know, it's a little bit resistant to it. So, this one's a little bit thicker than we're going to find most dry bags, but, and that means heavier, but in my opinion. it's worth it, okay? So, then inside this bag is another dry sack, also by C2 Summit, and this is where I keep my protein powder mix, okay? So this is the 8-liter, I don't know what model it is, but it's the 8-liter, so this is 20-liter, and the protein bag is 8-liter, and you can see there's all my oatmeal. And this thing holds a lot, okay? This is pretty heavy, you know, and this is probably well, if this was full, it's probably well over a month of food. Okay, so let's talk about the other, so this is my, basically my kitchen, okay? So this is just a titanium water bottle. And inside, it's full of water, so it's also my water carrier, and inside is a long titanium. Spork, okay, so I can just store this in here. It fits perfectly, okay? Then, there's more in here. I can get it out. Okay, so next is this little titanium pot or cup, which is where I actually eat the food. So I don't like to actually put food in here because it's difficult to clean it, okay? So I eat my food in here, I store my water in here. Then also in here, is a little stove with a couple little things that you attach to it to put a flat surface. But basically, if I wanted to heat up the water, then I can use this and just sticks and twigs, okay? Okay, so next let's talk about the protein powder. So this is just a kind of ad hoc mix of things, and I will just throw things into it as I can acquire them, okay? So currently, it is grass-fed weigh protein, pea protein, some... maca powder, and a little bit of stevia to add a little bit of sweetness, okay? But like I said, you can add lots of different things. Another good thing to add to this would be coconut milk powder. In fact, I recommend making that a high percentage of what is in here, because then you're getting fat, and it can be hard to get fat from other sources out in the wilderness unless you're hunting or fishing. Okay, so what I do, basically I just... I like to put my cup in the bag when I'm doing this because stuff will fly out. I'm just grabbing it with my hand. I grab a full handful of oats, and then I grab one more. So just two handfuls of oats per meal. And then I open up the protein powder bag. Make sure your spork is dry before you put it in there. Okay, and I'll take two scoops of the protein powder. Just looks like that. And then I'm going to mix it up while it's still dry. And this is important, especially if you're using something like wave protein, which can take a while if it's just by itself to dissolve into water. But if you mix it all up ahead of time, then it basically dissolves instantly, okay? All right, that's it for that. Then I take the water bottle. and I feel it until it's almost full. I mix it up, and I could eat this right now, but I usually will wait maybe 15 minutes to 20 minutes, just for it to kind of soak in and become more like the consistency of oatmeal. So this is one meal, so this is my breakfast, and then for lunch I will do the same thing, and then for dinner I will do the same thing. You might think you get tired of it, but I don't. I actually really enjoy eating this, and I even enjoy just eating it dry, so I'll just stick my spoon, or I'll put a couple handfuls of dry oatmeal into the cup, and then I'll just eat that with a spoon, and actually I find that to be really satisfying. So besides the other benefits of oatmeal, that I already mentioned. Another benefit is it's something that you're going to find everywhere, in every single store, even if you're in going up into a mountain town that has a tiny little shop where they've just got a little bit of food, they're going to have things like peanuts and jerky, and they're going to have oatmeal, okay? It's basically guaranteed. And you don't have to have quick oats, you can just have normal rolled oats. You can even have steel-cut oats, you're just going to need to soak it longer, okay? So anyways, that's my minimalist survival food strategy. It may seem basic and obvious, but, you know, it did take me several years of experimenting with lots of different stuff to just come to the conclusion that this is the way to go, okay? So I hope that's useful to you, and I'll see you guys next time.
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