Food insects

How do you feel about eating insects (food insects)? When your life depends on it, you have no choice. You may be able to do it better with the recipes we’ll cover in this article.

You must stop and assess the situation if you are lost in the wilderness. Your goal should be to prioritize during daylight hours, as it’s hard to do anything other than rest after dark.

Your survival pillars are water, food, fire, and shelter. You will need these resources to survive your extended stay in the wilderness.

However, it would help if you prioritized your activities. The rule of three says you can go three weeks without food, three weeks without water, and 3 hours without heat.

While you can go weeks without food, hunger symptoms will affect your productivity long before that point. Most survival shows and websites place a significant emphasis on finding food.

Some of this is to make the show more interesting. If a guy hunts a wild boar with a sharp stick, it’s more fun to watch than some other survival challenges.

You should know that if you go a few days without food, your body will start eating. It all begins with fat burning. At this point, you will feel weak, sore, and clumsy with a constant headache. As the process continues, your body will move on to burning body mass and organ tissue. This is when confusion, memory loss, nausea, dizziness, and severe depression can begin.

Meal options (Food insects)

Your priority when looking for food in the wild should be fats and proteins. These are the nutrients you need to avoid hunger symptoms.

As mentioned above, you often watch wilderness survival shows. Primitive hunting burns a considerable amount of energy and has a low chance of success. Unless you have a shotgun or rifle with you, hunting is not the best way to pass your time.

Trapping allows us to set up a trap system and test it once or twice daily. Leaves the rest of the day for other tips. However, success in trapping requires years of practice.

If you decide to set a trap, you should have another way to get food. Fishing has a higher success rate, but it becomes much more difficult without modern equipment. This may also take a long time.

The gathering is by far your best chance of getting food. If you know what you’re looking for, you can walk around to gather supplies and also come back with edible plants or insects.

While most environments have dozens of different edible plants, they rarely have the calories, fat, or protein they need to survive. Insects may be the best option for getting these essential nutrients without much time or effort.

There are insects (food insects)

Eating beetles or ants may not seem appetizing, but insects are rich in nutrients. We know about 30 million species of insects, and about 1900 are safe to eat. You can find these edible insects almost anywhere except Antarctica.

Although we find it strange to eat insects, it is pretty standard in most parts of the world. There are many cultures where insects are the primary source of food. It is becoming more common in the Western world. Currently, some companies grow insects specifically for food purposes.

General rules for insects

Try to eat some insects in a survival environment. A few rules will save you from undesirable consequences. You must always be able to identify an insect if you want to be sure it is edible.

Get to know the insects in your zone, but these rules can apply to the insects anywhere in the world.

1. Slow-moving insects.When you see something moving slowly in the wild, it is often because it is poisonous. The predators know this and leave them alone. Be careful with this.
2. Insects with spines – Insects that have spines use them to spread toxins. These features tell predators to stay away.
3. Smelly insects  – Your sense of smell helps prevent your illness. Both bacteria and insect-borne toxins can smell bad. You’d better avoid eating anything in the wild that smells bad, including insects.
4. Bright colors  – If the insect has red, yellow, orange, or blue markings, this is a warning to predators. Often these insects are toxic, so it is best to choose black, brown, or green insects.
5. Stinger  – You might think bees and wasps with stingers are not edible. This is partly true. To eat these insects, you must remove the stingers. They should then be safe to eat.
6. Flies and Mosquitoes – Bed bugs that breed and live around feces, stagnant water, or rotting meat are dangerous. They carry diseases that can make you sick or even kill you.
7. Underground Insects  – Anything you find underground, like worms or grubs, usually has a lot of dirt in its digestive system. Your best bet is to soak them overnight in water to remove dirt before you eat them.
8. Wings and Legs – Insect wings and legs have little nutritional value and can scratch you when you try to swallow them. Your best bet is to remove the legs and wings.
9. When in doubt, cook it if you want to make sure you kill bacteria and parasites that insects might have. Cooking it is your best bet. Common insects, such as grasshoppers, are edible but often carry parasites that must be killed.

What insects can you eat?

You will find that some insects are common in most temperate countries. Here are some edible species found almost everywhere:

• Ants are found all over the world and are all edible. You can litter an anthill, put a stick in it, or eat them from the ground. Some of them have a citrus flavor.
• Earthworms and larvae – they are edible and rich in protein and iron. Just try soaking them before eating to get rid of dirt.
• Bees and Wasps – As stated above, they are edible when you remove the stinger. Many cultures like to roast bees and eat the larvae raw.
• May bugs are some of the more giant insects in the wild, and you can eat both adults and larvae.
• Moths and Butterflies  – These are safe to eat with caterpillars. Just be sure to follow the general rules outlined above for tracks.
• Centipedes – These critters are poisonous in life and can be very large. It would help if you always cooked them to remove toxins and the head. Just make sure you know the difference between centipedes and centipedes, as centipedes are poisonous.
• Cockroaches – You might think that cockroaches would be a poor choice, but they can be eaten in the wild. They can be eaten if they don’t live in the trash.
• Crickets are another popular food source worldwide, and many people raise them for food on specialty farms.
• Scorpions can be deadly if you get stung, so be careful when catching them. Once you remove the stinger, they are ready to be eaten.
• Grasshopper – This insect is common in most countries and can grow very large. Remove the heads and cook them to avoid parasites.
• Slugs  – These slimy creatures carry parasites and sometimes eat poisonous plants. They need to be gutted and cooked before eating.
• Tarantula – These giant spiders are a few spider species that are a good food source. They have large enough feet to be eaten. Just be sure to cook it all well before eating.
• Snails – just like slugs, need to be gutted and cooked. You will find them on the French menu. I have eaten them several times, and they are pretty tasty.
• Termites are another insect commonly eaten around the world. They are rich in protein and can be harvested by the hundreds. They taste a bit like almonds.

Insect Recipes (food insects)

Insects are commonly eaten in Southeast Asia and are most often seen as snacks or street food. As a rule, they are fried or fried and rolled in sugar or spices.

You can also add them to fried potatoes or curries as a source of protein. When deciding how to cook your insects, remember that adults are crunchier and young insects are softer.