It depends...

Are you setting up a home? camp? bivouac? Are you planning on subsisting for years? weeks? days? If you are in one of 1day - three week emergency scenarios that this site usually deals with, then the need for food is really not that urgent and the concern with fire is that it be safe and as visible as possible to ensure rapid rescue. If you are setting up anything residential then you will need a lot of stuff. You might even want to establish shelter that is large and substantial enough to have the fire inside for heat. Something like an A-frame or Tipii. If you are setting up for an enjoyable weekend of camping then take the coleman stove and bring some hamburgers. If you are planning for an outing living on plants as an experiment then get out the guide books on local plants, go out with them in hand and identify and try each of the plants you think that you can recognize by bringing them home and preparing them in the kitchen first. You might be good enough at identifying plants to not kill yourself (or not) but you won't know if you want to live on them until you taste them. red meat almost always taste decent and if it doesn't then you would probably not be safe eating it. OTOH plants that are edible and healthy are often quite distasteful. A great example of an edible plant food that you will probably not want to live on (even though you could for a while) is the lowly acorn. It is rather high in protien and has a decent fat content but it's tannin content makes it an extremely bitter food. If you take the time to mash them, rinse them, boil them bury them in a clay pot for a week, dig them up and rinse them again you will be able to generate a mash that is much more palatable. But you will have eaten three squirrels, a couple of rabbits and perhaps a crow by the time the acorns will be palatable. <img src="images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />