One of my favorite go to foods is Rice; carried uncooked in, plastic bag lined, Tube Socks; seal the liners and tie the Tube Socks together; this setup can easily be carried in your backpack or around your neck. My favorite way of eat cooked Rice; add Brown Sugar to taste, Tbs Butter and Milk.
One tip I learned from an old Mohawk Indian when I was about 12 years old was to mix equal parts of salted butter with brown sugar together in a plastic bag, and to store it in the freezer. I was told to take it with me whenever I ventured out in weather below 20 degrees F, and to eat it when I was feeling weak or tired, I have done this ever since, and it has helped me at least a half dozen times when I needed an energy burst.
40 years ago in northern michigan my mom would make corn meal mush the same way and every once in awile she would but raisins in it. Thank you for bringing back some old memories.....
Thanks Dave. Really enjoy this series. Intro shots of you hunting and the fire are excellent. As you teach me, I am able to pass this knowledge on to my son. Much thanks. Keep it up!
Dave, After watching your video, I had to come up with my own redetion. So, I took a cup of old fashion oats and ran them thru the blender for a few seconds. I had oat flour to which I added 1/4 cup grits and 1/4 cup farina/ cream of wheat. No I just add 1 tablespoon instant milk and about a third cup of the mix to one cup of hot water, add a little sugar and some cinnimon and I have a quickie breakfast. I have yet to try this on the trail but I believe it shows great promise.
Nice! The only thing I would do different is add a little salt. I will have to give this a try. I do low fat, vegan, starch based diet based on Starch Solution. This would fit right in with that.
Thanks for the vids Dave. Im here in mid west Ohio and me and my buddies watch all your vids and use alot if your teachings. Your a great inspiration to us all. Keep It Up
@bikenutter1 thats what many people it for breakfast in my country. You can also bake bread with ground oat and and some kind of flour. its best with whole grain stuff
made me some of this last night while at the camp site, and again this morning, you can put it in boiling water 3 to 1 and stir until it gets real think poor out into a pan eat like that or let gel up then fry it up.
" If a lump of coal falls into the soup, and you cannot conveniently get it out,stir it well in,and it will give the soup a French taste." ~ Jonathan Swift~ Happy Trails, Dave *+*+*+*MERRY CHRISTMAS*+*+*+*
Get a rougher ground cornmeal and you can do that, then take the "cereal" out when it is good and clumped. You can then toast those "cakes" of the "cereal" over the fire and you have a really great treat.
The mayans actually used to make a hot drink that was corn meal and chocolate with some chilies. Here is a link to the recipe: it really warms you up on a cool day and fills you up. You could substitute the raw chocolate beans for a raw powdered chocolate. The raw chocolate has endless uses and is full of all kinds of nutrients like manganese, fat, fiber, protein, antioxident, and iron and calcium. It has to be raw chocolate though.
Dave there is something else you can do with that. Put a crumbled up biscuit in that cup. Its an old southern thing my Grandmother used to feed me. She'd mix just plain cocoa with water, sweeten it up a bit with sugar. Chocolate syrup on biscuits. You could do that with what you have there, substitute the cocoa with hot choc. Try it, its good.
@bordinco90 He's showing what the longhunters used and did. Since this is America and not an eastern country corn is a lot more prevalent then wheat so it is a lot easier for them to get a hold of a large amount of corn and process that into flour then it is for them to get wheat (which grows a lot more in the east). At least I think that's the case LOL. Btw corn flour taste WAY better than regular flour :D
Just some advice for cleaning up some sooty implements. Take a piece of charcoal and a small amount of water and basically scrub the implement down with the charcoal, adding a little water to "grease" it through. IT WORKS WONDERS!
Two things come to mind that me and my dad tell each other a lot, 1. K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple Stupid, and the 6 P's-Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Great Video by the way.
haha I realized at around 5:30 that you were talking about HOT cereal. Things started making a lot more sense. ;-) I continue to enjoy this whole series, and I hope to get out and try it all sometime. Oh and I really like the "passing on the tribal knowledge" tagline on one of the previous videos. I like what it says about your videos, as exemplified by this series.
I live less than 3 miles from one ethanol fuel plant and 6 miles from 2 more. if the wind is either straight north or straight south it smells like hot breakfast cereal. it is a good situation when the odors from an industrial plant make you hungry
dave i don't have a kitchen right now so i gonna give you a idea and let you tell me if it works. dehydrated eggs and instant grits. heat the water and mix and eat i just don't know about the consistancey but it sounds good to me. let me know how it turns out. GOOD JOB MY FRIEND KEEP UP THE GOOD VIDEOS
I had a old guy make something like this on a scout trip back in the mid 80's who added raisins, cinnamon and a little brown sugar... We cleaned the cups out... And begged for more.
Haven't had a chance to check out your store yet, just watching some videos on my cheap so so smartphone, but I was wondering if there is basic wilderness cookbook similar to what you are doing in the videos. Too bad household dvd players can't play computer video formats for learning at home where traveling to the Pathfinder school is out of the question..
I call that corn mush :) You can not add the sugar and add salsa instead and it is GREAT! I know on the trail a person doesn't have that, but if you make it at home..try it if you haven't
HHHAAA !! 2nd rule applies around here too ! One hard well learned rule I has was,,never lay out a bed roll in the dark,,I did that once and next morning was bitten head to toe from ants because I had covered a ant nest ,,took nearly 2 weeks to heal up from all those bites ,,so watch out where you spill the sugar -if it warm weather ..Great Video works you share,Thanks
@Deriust America does things weird to the rest of the world. Cornflour in the rest of the world is cornflour. in the us, its called corn starch. Cornflour in the usa is generally corn meal. and yes there is a difference between the two. a simple check on the ingredients list should clear it up for you
Hey Dave. I've been meaning to ask this for a while, What do you think about carrying a little alcohol jet stove, such as a penny stove, or a small wood gasifier? Alcohol and the left behind Charcoal have their own versatility. The stoves weigh little and the space these items take up can be offset by storing other items inside them. So I was thinking that it might be useful to carry one or both of these little things.
This is good basic survival food that was used a lot in the US by low income families in the 1930s, 1940s and even the 1950s. It was referred to as just "mush". When I was young and we didn't have anything else to eat, my mother also made cornmeal gravy. Trust me, you DON'T want to eat that. :/ Nice hat Dave. Can you tell me the brand and maybe the place of purchase? Thanks.
I gotta try the trick you use to move your bottle out and into the fire.. how tick should the stick be? Seems kinda like it might be alittle bigger chance for it to slip and spil the water? or is it a good trick?
Depends on the wildlife in your area I suppose. Personally I like to keep any thing food or food-esque away from where I sleep and suspended from a tree. Most of my camping has been done on the west coast and while I can't speak for the east coast I know here there are quite a few bears and they have very good noses and sealed in a container or not they'll smell it. I used to just hang the food but after having a bear rip into my pack for tooth paste I hang anything with an odor.
@KillerFlyingFish...there is going to be a season 3 of dual survival. But Dave will not be a part of it due to family commitment/pathfinder school commitment.
SIMPLICITY!! Using the ole KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) system works everytime! I kinda thought you might stir in a bit of that Pemmican you made the other day? Hmmmm? Five years till I retire then I'm growing a thick woolybooger beard like yours! Lol
Im little bit off topic right here, but i thought of high rubber boots before, and now i see u wear them, so what would you say:). I mean compared to some leather boots, witch of them are more reliable and what would you choose for what enwironment? Thanks
Folks keep calling this grits. I don't think so. Corn flour is not grits. Flour is fine and grits are small chunks of ground white corn. Big difference. Love the grits and that looks good as well. I will have to give it a try.
You know Dave's a boss, and there's NO WAY he only ate that little smidge of cornmeal for breakfast. I want to see the footage of Dave eating the three pounds of bacon, 5 minutes prior to this video. :)
The 5 sec rule .. love it lol i say that all the time and watch people get grossed out or tell me i'm disgusting lol .. i look at it say fine more food for me. people in the use throw away 60% of all food produced in this country but its going to take a more then a little dirt to make me one of those sheep. wonderful video brother. if you had your goat you could fry drips of it on a rock and make corn flakes.
dave i have a question, u ever watched true grit with john wayne he had in his sack what he called corn dodgers what were those and were they carried alot by frontiersmen ? or was that just holywood make believe and second i love that pack u have were are they for sell at
@tblbaby The two cracks at the start of that last post were joking around. I read it & it sounded like I was being a disrespectful smart ass, nope, just being funny to myself if no one else.
I was wondering what your take on having food in camp is. I've seen people who always insist on suspending a foodbag in a tree well away from camp every nite, others that leave their food in camp. I wanted to know your opinion on it, thanks.
One of my favorite go to foods is Rice; carried uncooked in, plastic bag lined, Tube Socks; seal the liners and tie the Tube Socks together; this setup can easily be carried in your backpack or around your neck. My favorite way of eat cooked Rice; add Brown Sugar to taste, Tbs Butter and Milk.
One tip I learned from an old Mohawk Indian when I was about 12 years old was to mix equal parts of salted butter with brown sugar together in a plastic bag, and to store it in the freezer. I was told to take it with me whenever I ventured out in weather below 20 degrees F, and to eat it when I was feeling weak or tired, I have done this ever since, and it has helped me at least a half dozen times when I needed an energy burst.
40 years ago in northern michigan my mom would make corn meal mush the same way and every once in awile she would but raisins in it. Thank you for bringing back some old memories.....
Dave... my Grandaddy called that 'mush'... He grew up on it! Dang... I miss him...
Thanks Dave. Really enjoy this series. Intro shots of you hunting and the fire are excellent. As you teach me, I am able to pass this knowledge on to my son. Much thanks. Keep it up!
Grits! I love it! Something else some of us do 'round here is mix some sweet corn bread and milk together...great eatin'! Please keep 'Em comin'!
The longer I've been watching your channel the more I like it. There's so much knowledge in here I love it.
Dave,
After watching your video, I had to come up with my own redetion.
So, I took a cup of old fashion oats and ran them thru the blender for a few seconds. I had oat flour to which I added 1/4 cup grits and 1/4 cup farina/ cream of wheat.
No I just add 1 tablespoon instant milk and about a third cup of the mix to one cup of hot water, add a little sugar and some cinnimon and I have a quickie breakfast.
I have yet to try this on the trail but I believe it shows great promise.
Nice! The only thing I would do different is add a little salt. I will have to give this a try. I do low fat, vegan, starch based diet based on Starch Solution. This would fit right in with that.
@ramsessilent of course, I'm sure there are endless recipes, I just like watching Dave's cooking segments!
Thanks for the vids Dave. Im here in mid west Ohio and me and my buddies watch all your vids and use alot if your teachings. Your a great inspiration to us all. Keep It Up
"five second Rule" - love it.Looks good Dave. Love the fork branch pour trick. It's the simple stuff...
Great idea Dave. These series of videos are really great. Thanks for sharing...
It call porridge
Sweet condensed milk
Evaporated milk
Vanilla
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Salt
Sugar
Just sweeting to your likeness
Good breakfast meal
💯
Simplicity at it's best!
Hi Dave, ...great reflector wall! Cool, enjoy your meal, ...and thanks for so much videos! Have a great and blessed weekend, Sepp
dave will go down in history as the next nesmuk like if you agree!
Came here after watching Gordon ramsay, and I must say, Dave is a MUCH better cook lol
Loved the show man, but damn its good to see YOU posting all the vids again
@bikenutter1
thats what many people it for breakfast in my country.
You can also bake bread with ground oat and and some kind of flour. its best with whole grain stuff
made me some of this last night while at the camp site, and again this morning, you can put it in boiling water 3 to 1 and stir until it gets real think poor out into a pan eat like that or let gel up then fry it up.
" If a lump of coal falls into the soup, and you cannot conveniently get it out,stir it well in,and it will give the soup a French taste."
~ Jonathan Swift~
Happy Trails, Dave
*+*+*+*MERRY CHRISTMAS*+*+*+*
Looks tasty, adding this to my pack. Keep up the hard work brother!
Great use of that toggle and forked stick. So simple.
Get a rougher ground cornmeal and you can do that, then take the "cereal" out when it is good and clumped. You can then toast those "cakes" of the "cereal" over the fire and you have a really great treat.
The mayans actually used to make a hot drink that was corn meal and chocolate with some chilies. Here is a link to the recipe: it really warms you up on a cool day and fills you up. You could substitute the raw chocolate beans for a raw powdered chocolate. The raw chocolate has endless uses and is full of all kinds of nutrients like manganese, fat, fiber, protein, antioxident, and iron and calcium. It has to be raw chocolate though.
i dont know what's been up with you lately dave, but you've put out some of your best videos ever!
Dave there is something else you can do with that. Put a crumbled up biscuit in that cup. Its an old southern thing my Grandmother used to feed me. She'd mix just plain cocoa with water, sweeten it up a bit with sugar. Chocolate syrup on biscuits. You could do that with what you have there, substitute the cocoa with hot choc. Try it, its good.
great idea Dave on pulling out your container from the fire.
@bordinco90 He's showing what the longhunters used and did. Since this is America and not an eastern country corn is a lot more prevalent then wheat so it is a lot easier for them to get a hold of a large amount of corn and process that into flour then it is for them to get wheat (which grows a lot more in the east). At least I think that's the case LOL.
Btw corn flour taste WAY better than regular flour :D
Just some advice for cleaning up some sooty implements. Take a piece of charcoal and a small amount of water and basically scrub the implement down with the charcoal, adding a little water to "grease" it through.
IT WORKS WONDERS!
Grits, freeze dried sausage crumbles, salt and pepper. Prepare the same way you just did the cereal. That will stick to your ribs. Yum yum.
Dave, I really appreciate that you wear a cross while making these videos.
Ha ha, just admiring your 'winter coat' too Mr C!
Thanks for another good vid.
Stay warm and well.
i have eaten this for years in place of grits great vid. yet another use for corn flour/mill good job
Two things come to mind that me and my dad tell each other a lot, 1. K.I.S.S.-Keep It Simple Stupid, and the 6 P's-Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.
Great Video by the way.
haha I realized at around 5:30 that you were talking about HOT cereal. Things started making a lot more sense. ;-) I continue to enjoy this whole series, and I hope to get out and try it all sometime. Oh and I really like the "passing on the tribal knowledge" tagline on one of the previous videos. I like what it says about your videos, as exemplified by this series.
wow, these intros to the videos are getting better
Cool idea on pouring the boiling water. Love learning new things!
I live less than 3 miles from one ethanol fuel plant and 6 miles from 2 more. if the wind is either straight north or straight south it smells like hot breakfast cereal. it is a good situation when the odors from an industrial plant make you hungry
This should be a curriculum in school!.
Thanks Dave. You sir are awesome! I cannot wait to get into the woods, and try these for myself. Also I cannot wait to see dual survival 3!
Love it Dave, been eating it since a child we call it Atole. I make it with maza harina.
You're gettin' pretty wooly there Dave. Nice video! Simplicity!
the way you poured the water reminds me of how blacksmiths and smelters pour molten medal out of their crucible
smart move
i like that! i use oatmeal myself but cool way to use corn flower....
dave i don't have a kitchen right now so i gonna give you a idea and let you tell me if it works. dehydrated eggs and instant grits. heat the water and mix and eat i just don't know about the consistancey but it sounds good to me. let me know how it turns out.
GOOD JOB MY FRIEND KEEP UP THE GOOD VIDEOS
Dave really cool trick with the cordage and the bottle and the 5 sec rule rocks great video thanks
@jdouglasfisher Knowledge counts for more, and improvisation counts a lot too, but your point is well made all the same.
@McHenryAnge the canteen shop sells them or go to the pathfinder school website
they sell them .....
I had a old guy make something like this on a scout trip back in the mid 80's who added raisins, cinnamon and a little brown sugar... We cleaned the cups out... And begged for more.
Haven't had a chance to check out your store yet, just watching some videos on my cheap so so smartphone, but I was wondering if there is basic wilderness cookbook similar to what you are doing in the videos.
Too bad household dvd players can't play computer video formats for learning at home where traveling to the Pathfinder school is out of the question..
small packs of jam are good in your mush and most the time free
Hi Dave just checkin out the now series, looking good,so is the beard!, is the coat wool?
Thanks and take care.
I call that corn mush :) You can not add the sugar and add salsa instead and it is GREAT! I know on the trail a person doesn't have that, but if you make it at home..try it if you haven't
HHHAAA !! 2nd rule applies around here too ! One hard well learned rule I has was,,never lay out a bed roll in the dark,,I did that once and next morning was bitten head to toe from ants because I had covered a ant nest ,,took nearly 2 weeks to heal up from all those bites ,,so watch out where you spill the sugar -if it warm weather ..Great Video works you share,Thanks
@Deriust America does things weird to the rest of the world. Cornflour in the rest of the world is cornflour. in the us, its called corn starch. Cornflour in the usa is generally corn meal. and yes there is a difference between the two. a simple check on the ingredients list should clear it up for you
dave...got my sound fixed........thanks for sharing...spiritpipeman
Hey Dave. I've been meaning to ask this for a while, What do you think about carrying a little alcohol jet stove, such as a penny stove, or a small wood gasifier?
Alcohol and the left behind Charcoal have their own versatility. The stoves weigh little and the space these items take up can be offset by storing other items inside them. So I was thinking that it might be useful to carry one or both of these little things.
Awesome vid, thumbs up. :) Down here in SC we'd just call in Grits though. :p
i watched your show just this morning and when i went to the store i got myself some corn flour and brown sugar. it just looked tasty.
I always like mine watery less i have to drink during the day and the soupyness keeps me warmer or makes me feel warmer.
loved the video , i was actually hoping you would say what was in your pack so it was awesome , tryin to get the single shot 12 ga for christmas
This is good basic survival food that was used a lot in the US by low income families in the 1930s, 1940s and even the 1950s. It was referred to as just "mush". When I was young and we didn't have anything else to eat, my mother also made cornmeal gravy. Trust me, you DON'T want to eat that. :/
Nice hat Dave. Can you tell me the brand and maybe the place of purchase? Thanks.
Great size carry axe. Is tarp canvas or synthetic? Corn mush is ok and your method mix is great. thanks
I gotta try the trick you use to move your bottle out and into the fire.. how tick should the stick be? Seems kinda like it might be alittle bigger chance for it to slip and spil the water? or is it a good trick?
Depends on the wildlife in your area I suppose. Personally I like to keep any thing food or food-esque away from where I sleep and suspended from a tree. Most of my camping has been done on the west coast and while I can't speak for the east coast I know here there are quite a few bears and they have very good noses and sealed in a container or not they'll smell it.
I used to just hang the food but after having a bear rip into my pack for tooth paste I hang anything with an odor.
Outstanding
The beard is getting pretty epic, Dave.
@KillerFlyingFish...there is going to be a season 3 of dual survival. But Dave will not be a part of it due to family commitment/pathfinder school commitment.
Great videos.
I swear some people must see a video like this and not even watch it but push dislike...how could you dislike a informative video like this???
SIMPLICITY!! Using the ole KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) system works everytime! I kinda thought you might stir in a bit of that Pemmican you made the other day? Hmmmm? Five years till I retire then I'm growing a thick woolybooger beard like yours! Lol
Great videos! You should do an episode on moonshining!
@BottlecapAnonymous either works my good man. :D
Im little bit off topic right here, but i thought of high rubber boots before, and now i see u wear them, so what would you say:). I mean compared to some leather boots, witch of them are more reliable and what would you choose for what enwironment? Thanks
Grea video as always Dave buddy :)
when you said "five second rule", it made me chuckle.
Excellent series, i must have pushed like 3 times during this one,lol
Dave making an atole! Adding chocolate is a champurrado. Awesome vid!
@simsghost Tarred cat fish line you can get diffrent test I get 120 lbs or so.
that's pretty slick idea using that forked branch to tilt your cup, brother
Folks keep calling this grits. I don't think so. Corn flour is not grits. Flour is fine and grits are small chunks of ground white corn. Big difference. Love the grits and that looks good as well. I will have to give it a try.
great vid as usual bro
You know Dave's a boss, and there's NO WAY he only ate that little smidge of cornmeal for breakfast. I want to see the footage of Dave eating the three pounds of bacon, 5 minutes prior to this video. :)
Hey, Dave. What you made is called grits. Trust me; I grew up on the stuff.
great video thanks
The 5 sec rule .. love it lol i say that all the time and watch people get grossed out or tell me i'm disgusting lol .. i look at it say fine more food for me. people in the use throw away 60% of all food produced in this country but its going to take a more then a little dirt to make me one of those sheep. wonderful video brother. if you had your goat you could fry drips of it on a rock and make corn flakes.
I was wonderin what the heck he was talkin about when he said cereal! I was like, "Why doesn't he call them grits?"
great video! was that a grouse you shot at the begining?
Thanks Dave , The One Who Survive , Are The Ones Who are Educated , and The Ones Who Swallow Their Pride
@wildernessoutfitters cool thanks
dave i have a question, u ever watched true grit with john wayne he had in his sack what he called corn dodgers what were those and were they carried alot by frontiersmen ? or was that just holywood make believe and second i love that pack u have were are they for sell at
@deadbishop cornflakes if you got milk just saying fry/bake it in small drips/chips. muffens pancakes .. the list is endless
Could you do more videos with you roughing it out in the wilderness please?
Dave...you post videos daily. Take a break and enjoy the family.
@tblbaby The two cracks at the start of that last post were joking around. I read it & it sounded like I was being a disrespectful smart ass, nope, just being funny to myself if no one else.
I was wondering what your take on having food in camp is. I've seen people who always insist on suspending a foodbag in a tree well away from camp every nite, others that leave their food in camp. I wanted to know your opinion on it, thanks.
and nice vid ...love it like always