Eating Raw Stinging Nettle also Thistle a Trailside Snack

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More on edibles in the outdoors. I have shown eating cooked Stinging Nettles in several videos before, many people are not aware that you can eat the leaves raw as well, a little trick I use makes it a pleasant experience. Thistles are a bane to travelers, but they can at times be a very tasty refreshing treat. This video sponsored by http://wildernessinnovation.com

Tags: Common Nettle (Food),Thistle,edibles,survival training,edible plants,stinging nettle,Eating,outdoors,camping,hiking,foraging

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hip on the street I just found a really nice stand of a stinging nettle here discuss this taller than these done cases stuff is just awesome it's really it's really fresh and nice nice big leaves everything like that and it's really really good this time of year spring drop just I'm going are going to UM is going to cook some of the stinging nettle up oh so good it's so good you just keep playing it and I like Bobby the only thing about it is get these loads of little barbs on the back side here

the little stinging stuffing solution is you do get a few of those on your tongue and lips o you having some little number spots kind like you been to the dentist but and my fingers and I feel it them picking them so you do feel the little thing that but I I fold them so they're kind of insight or right the wrongs to right side out whatever you call it because all the stings stuff is on the bottom so if you pick them and fold them over so the bottom is on the inside then you don't get the little little barbs sticking your tongue well you still do a little bit but the flavors so get it's worth it anyway little stinging nettle this stuff is just awesome of those clear back in there huge huge patch I could eat here for a month well something else we see back in here is there is a little bit little bit there's a lot of this will back in here it's mingled in with the stinging nettles I've been playing around in here with the stinging nettle and now my my fingers are all tingly now that's a pretty name patch I mean if you walk through that a couple times you'd be it'd be a pretty not you'd be numbed up a little bit there's the thistle back in there and my mother's here some closer right in here right want to find some of the finger diameter so stock so I like to reach down in here and grab the thistle stocks that are about finger thick in diameter and I like them in moist a nice moist ground whether they've been well watered and everything that way there's a lot of moisture in them there they're more tender the flavors nicer less stringy taken first of all just take your knife and just start removing some of the thorns and some of those thorny leaves that are on there and then I'll lop off the far end the top end of it and then this these thistles have kind of a web or kind of fins that go run up the sides that have stickers all over in them so you just scrape like I did right there get rid of those then just like if you wanted to peel the fiber out of a celery stalk you just do the same thing take your knife and peel down and you can eat you can eat it too but you know it's it's a little tough so you peel it out of there and it's great I just mentioned here this thing is hollow if I were to go over here my camel night go here well lost my audio track again so I'm narrating anyway I love thistles as a trail side snack I'll often pick them alongside the trail and then skin them out like I just did here and then just munch on them on the trail they're just packed full of water and moisture so how's your eating gives it get you something to chew on keep your mouth moist they have a kind of a little flavor kind of like celery would kind of their own little flavor but so they taste good good trailside snack something good to eat while you're out on the trail perry peacock wilderness innovation have a great day you

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