If you get into a survival situation, you are going to have limited food choices. If you really think the infrastructure is going to go down, as I do, then it is best to get used to the new diet now. It also helps to get all the right "weeds" growing in the yard.
The bulk of any survival diet should be a good grain, such as barley or oats. I keep a good stock of rolled oats and eat oatmeal for breakfast every morning. To this oatmeal, I add ground up dried herbs, nuts, and seeds. In particular, I dry and grind up nettles during early summer. Nettles are loaded with good nutrition. In the late fall I collect evening primrose seeds. The seeds are a great source of omega oils and other good stuff for the body. Another good powdered food source is made from mulberry leaves during the spring. Mulberry leaves are also high in nutrition.
When I make my oatmeal I will make it a bit wet and then add the powdered wild vegetables and seeds. It is very nutritious and I have lived off this daily for over six years.
Since you have to boil water anyway during survival times, I boil whole dandelion plants and make a tea out of it. The tea is an excellent drink that strengthens the heart and gives an overall feeling of vitality. The potassium and calcium is in a form the heart needs and so it should be drunk by everyone all the time, anyway. The boiled dandelion roots taste good right out of the pan and can be mashed to make a mashed potato substitute. The boiled leaves are also good.
Plantain is another good weed to have in the yard it can be added to the dandelions when making tea. Whereas dandelions can reasonably be eaten all year, plantain tastes best during the spring.
Keep yarrow in the yard and make a tea out of it, too. Add it to the dandelion tea if necessary. Yarrow will keep the immune system strong and help to fight off most infectious diseases. But do not wait until you are sick to take yarrow. It only keeps a healthy body strong, it does not cure a disease that has taken root (except for blood poisoning.) The first time I decided to test the efficacy of herbs was nearly thirty years ago. I got blood poisoning from stepping on a sharp rock while barefoot. My leg artery was clearly infected all the way up to my waist when I took a tea of yarrow. The yarrow completely cured the blood poisoning in six hours. I have continued to take yarrow daily ever since.
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