SELCO—Sometimes I Had Nothing To Eat For Days…Hungry People Are Desperate People
SurvivalDan101.com
5/5/2018
Editor’s note: In the following article, Selco of SHTF School delves even further, detailing real-life scenarios, key information that will undoubtedly help save your life should the streets of America turn into a war zone. Pay attention because this no idealized collapse scenario – it’s reality. Selco is from the Balkan region, where from 92 to 95 the Bosnian War destroyed everything and he lived and survived in a city without electricity, fuel, running water, real food distribution, or distribution of any goods, or any kind of organized law or government.
Selco: Some Thoughts On Food…
As the situation deteriorated more and more, some things about food changed, things were brought to a level where we eat just to survive. To explain you in a simple way: in the first month it was like-oh I really could use pizza or beer, but after a few months it was like- oh I really want to eat SOMETHING, it was not too important what.
There were not too many different kinds of foods, I will try to remember here what we use to eat. Cooking and preparing food mostly was not my part in that days, but I will do my best here.
Bread was not an everyday thing, and it was not bread like we eat today, and it was homemade of course. Flour was bad quality, actually, it was some kind of mixture I think. We use to bake that bread in small pots, on a plate, not in the oven, it took less firewood to bake it like that. After baking we wrap it in wet clothes, rug or something similar and leave it for an hour or two, to make it softer.
About pancakes, we just call it pancakes, but actually, it was a mixture of herbs, water and small amounts of flour, baked also on plates, so when it was done we got something similar to a pancake, with a lot of green stuff inside and taste bad. For pancakes we used two kinds of herbs, one was wild onion or bear onion, other was nettle (Urtica).
We also used herbs mostly for different kind of soups, as a soup we used mostly nettle, especially if we had few potatoes to put in. We used all kinds of tea, actually something between tea and soup, I ques depended did we had anything else to put inside. Rice was popular also, alone or in form of some kind of pie.
Sometimes I did not eat for few days in a row, but at the end, I always managed to get something through a trade or other ways. But many people were not that lucky, I have seen and hear a lot of cases where people died of starvation. It was a question of your strength and brain and some luck to find food.
Now you are going to ask me how?
OK, for example, two from our group go out to wait for MREs, two others go to find someone to trade something, two are going to find some usable herbs.
Food was coming in town trough few ways, depending on the state of those ways in some days was easier to get some food, in other days was just too hard.
For example, in one period on the black market, there were great amounts of some kind of cookies, or hard biscuits, in big metal containers, I do not have clue from where. Something similar to those crackers in MRE.
People avoided to eat that because the rumor was that cookies are poisoned, I did not avoid them. So it was some strange situations with food too. Of course, all different kinds of cans, MREs, end every other “luxury” thing was subject of many different “ifs”. Preparing of food was pointed to how to “how to make it with less firewood”
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