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To feed any meaningful number of men who move a lot, that's not enough.

Instead of hunting, you visit local farms that have stored hay safe from the fallout and have cattle kept indoors. You take what you need and leave receipt.




Actually birch leaves have nourishment value close potatoes to 400 kcal/100 grams as I recall. And lots of vitamin C. But they taste very bad. We tested that too, with prolonged boiling and Tabasco, birch leaves are at least semi-edible.

This scene we were presented was a wasteland, no farmers left. The purpose of this operation was too keep the wasteland wasted. Some Estonian "Forest Brothers" survived 40 years to see their country free again. That was the doctrine at that time.


  Product: Birch leaves minced - Bulk
  Characteristic
 
  Look and color: Green  
  Flavor: Bitter herbal  
  Nutrition 100 g: kJ 66 / Kcal 16,  
  total fat 0,2 g of which saturated fat 0 g, 
  Carbohydrate 3 g, of which sugar 1,8 g, 
  protein 7 g

16 kcal seems more reasonable.


Something is off with that calculation. Carbs and protein = 4kcal per gramm, fat is 9kcal per gramm.

0.2*9 + 7*4 + 3*4 = 41.8kcal

Not going to make you fat but not too shabby either, especially the protein content. Seems you run into protein toxicity issues pretty fast around 1000kcal, but if you enter ketosis it might be a good way to protein so your muscles don't waste.


Yes. "Luonnonmuonaohje" suggested eating exactly 1.1 kg of birch leaves producing 5 MegaJoules (1000 kcal). Some army egghead has calculated all the issues.


Cant argue with facts at the moment. All I know birch is more fulfilling than Reindeer Moss that former SS-officer Noko was enjoying in 1944.

However. This book from 1963 seems familiar "Guerilla Warfare, conditions and outlines". Maybe there is some cooking recipes, too: https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/130579/Sotataido...


Official up to date recipes:

Puolustusvoimat, Luonnonmuonaohje (LUMO) 1985

https://puolustusvoimat.fi/documents/1948673/2258487/PEVIEST...

Tuon mukaan koivunlehtiä pitää syödä 1.1 kiloa elinvoimat ylläpitävan (5 MJ) energian saamiseksi, eli olisi hieman parempi kuin pettu. Ei hullumpi (108 kcal/100g) Noin suurta määrää ei suositella.


Yes. "Luonnonmuonaohje" is the word. On this particular kayaking trip I was totally obsessed with post-holocaust living on the Baltic sea. Macaroni/BirchLeaves/Tabasco was the menu. You can get used to it. https://youtu.be/0P-wd3qzCBA




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