Nuts

[UncleJak]

I was thinking nuts in the shell would make great survival food. They can last a long time and are nutritious. I have heard of walnuts and pecans lasting close to 2 years in the shell. Just make sure to have a set of nutcrackers or you will be struggling to free them from the shells.

[Pat]

This ran through my head, too. We have a black walnut tree in the yard, and it produces a boatload of nuts each year. I don't have any kind of estimate, but it's a lot. Four or five wheelbarrow loads, this year!

Nuts are plenty good for you, so it's a great food option to have - you just have to keep the dagnab squirrels out of them, which produces an entirely different food opportunity.

Of course, there's all kinds of nut trees throughout the Tennessee woods. Hickory's another good one. I've heard even acorns are edible if you fix them right, but that's beyond me.

[UncleJak]

Acorns are horrid. You have to boil them 3 times to make them safe to eat. Safe does not equal tasty. Stick with the more popular nuts.

[monkeylizard]

Yeah, there's a reason you don't see cans of Planter's Acorns on the shelf at Kroger.

[glowdotGlock]

I just got done eating a bowl fulla walnuts.

[Makiaveli]

Acorns are horrid. You have to boil them 3 times to make them safe to eat. Safe does not equal tasty. Stick with the more popular nuts.

 

Somewhere I ran across the advice to crush them, then immerse them in running water to leach out the tannins. As in leave them in a cloth bag in a stream for a few hours or more depending on the type of acorn. There is a type from California, white acorns, that naturally have little tannin and are safe as is. Course all the oaks in my yard are the local variety :(