Taco Bell is everywhere. Just ask for extra hot sauce. That's the same as Tabasco sauce, isn't it?

If you're stuck in elevated areas, some people are hit with high-altitude sickness, and if they can eat at all, only want sweet stuff.

One survival technique touted in the manuals actually works: pit cooking. Most people think of cooking game on a spit over a fire, as seen on TV. Actually, it doesn't work all that well and tends to come out charred on some places, raw inside.

If you catch some small game but don't have anything to cook it in, dig a hole about a foot deep, build a good fire in it and keep it going for an hour, then take out the embers and set them aside. Take your cleaned game (leave the skin on it) and either wrap it in your aluminum foil or smear clay mud all over it to form a shell, put it in the newly-emptied hot pit, and cover it with soil up to ground level. Let it cook for an hour or two (depending on size), then carefully dig it up. Unwrap the foil or crack open the clay shell and eat. If you think it might not cook enough this way, due to size or not being able to dig a deep enough hole, etc, heat a rock that will fit inside the carcass, and just before you put the meat into the pit, maneuver the hot rock into the carcass, then bury it.

Of course, you can cook other foods this way, too.

A friend of my mother's used to do this fairly routinely with sage hens in WY many years ago and said they were delicious.

Sue