Dont forget your furry friends!

[Carrot Cruncher]

I have a big river 50 yards from my front door which empties into the estuary about 1/2 hour walk away so fish would be a large part of my diet in the event of any breakdown. A mixture of Fish, the odd Rabbit, stored tins and rice, combined with veg from the garden should hopefully keep me going for a fair while.

[Technik]

I had the opportunity to share a brew with John "Lofty" Wiseman a few years back, he used to run two week long survival courses as an intro for the troops, first day he would present them with a live, wild rabbit, they had to prep it for eating, and have it for supper the first night, one squaddie refused to kill his and let it go.

He coped well for most of the course, but in the second week he gave them another rabbit, the guy who had first refused nearly tore the rabbit limb from limb.

The reason for his change in attitude, his survival, he was hungry, he hadn't eaten properly for over a week, he needed food intake.

But you see, the guy made a huge mistake of eating at all - my girlfriend just finished a 14 day no food detox + 14 day just liquids = 28 days with water and juice, absolutely no solid food and she felt great the whole time, problems begun when she started to eat solid food after the 28 days (stomach pain). And apparently you can go 40 days with no food, just water. The guy just didn't prepare properly to his survival course.

[the-gnole]

The guy just didn't prepare properly to his survival course.

Unfortunately you don't prepare for such courses where Mr Wiseman is in charge, you get taken on it, at any time he thinks "suitable"no notice given, just like in a "real" survival situation.