I grew up sort of middle class. Food always came from the supermarket.?

Question

If I had to catch critters and eat them. How hard is that? How do you catch them? Once you catch them what do you do with them? Do they taste good or nasty?

Answer 1

I've starved. It's not hard to catch them and they taste great after you've missed fifteen or twenty meals in a row. Get a stick and smash their heads, then take a sharp rock and cut their guts out and rip the skin off them; start a fire and push the stick through them and roast till cooked. Eat till full, repeat as often as hunger dictates.

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean by "Critters". Some are *excellent* to eat and not to difficult to harvest. Others are less than appetizing or even harmful to eat.

There are plenty of natural non-animal food sources as well. Your basic nuts, berries and grain type items. However, once again, it takes a bit of experience to know what is good to eat and what is not.

That being said, people generally don't realize what a luxurious ingredient wild game or other natural foods can be. For example, gourmets will pay huge sums for truffles (a wild mushroom), and high end restaurants charge premium dollar for meat from game animals such as deer, antelope, elk, wild boar, etc... But, just like any cooking, the ingredients are only one part of the picture. What you do with them ultimately determines the quality of the end product.

Answer 3

It is quite easy. take a bucket half-full of water, cover it with an old X Ray film and make a U shaped cut on it (The U should be large enough for the critter to fall down in to the bucket). Glue some bait (peanuts?) in the middle of the U cut. Critters will try to get the peanuts and will fall down in to the water and will drown to death. Keep the bucket where you think critters will be looking for food.

Next day morning, remove the X Ray film and count the critters drowned and dead in the bucket. Take out the critters one by one, and then with a knife cut the spine in the middle and fold the critter, with your two fingers take eveything inside and peel off the skin like you peal a banana.

Take some corn flour, black pepper, salt and garlic-ginger paste in a bowl, add water and make a slime. Take some vegetable oil in a frying pan, and heat it. Take critters one by one, dip in the slime and then dip and fry.

Eat as much as you can and enjoy. They taste nasty.

Now I have answered all your questions in the best way possible, so give me 10 points

Answer 4

Squirrel tastes just like chicken.
Deer is delicious, you can make lots of dishes and they have very useful bodies. (skin, bones, etc)
Bear is greasy, but makes good hamburgers
Duck is dark meat, and kind of greasy.
Rabbit is good, but tough and not much meat.
Pheasant is delicious, but hard to find
There are always lots of fishes, but some of them taste nasty.

If you are serious about catching critters, use humane traps and always know the laws of the area you hunt. Certain things can only be hunted at certain times.

If you truly needed to catch your own food, I think you would be out of luck in most areas, unless you lived in a wooded area and knew which animals to hunt during which season, most animals move from place to place. Grow a garden too, both for yurself and the attraction of critters.

Answer 5

I grew up in the ranks of Upper Middle Class-dom. Like you, food always came from the Supermarket (Grocery Store).

But now, I prefer more natural foods. What comes out of the grocery store tastes NOTHING like what we raise and grow on the farms. The taste of meat & chicken without preservatives or hormones is incredible. And the taste of truly fresh fruits and vegetables grown organically and picked fresh is perfection.

Answer 6

It is very hard, you can't just catch them, they are all faster or bigger than you. Better to get a job, work hard, buy a house and build a food cache from the supermarket for the supposed coming hard times.

Answer 7

Did you try researching your question at the food network website? I saw a show the other day about grilling quail. They griller chef guy said that it doesn't taste too gamey. But your own taste is going to determine whether you like it or not.. not our responses!

Answer 8

It is a lot of work. Even if you don't have to hunt them, but rather they were raised for the purpose of eating.
My family never did this. However, I had many relatives that lived on farms that did this. Wow, way too much work for me.

Answer 9

Depends on what type of critter you're talking about.

Answer 10

Try going for peoples pets. They are much easier to catch cause they are used to people.