While freshwater clams should not be eaten unless you are truly desperate (they tend to be more populated by bacteria and disease), salt water clams are an easily harvested source of food – survival situation or no.

If you are in a survival situation, this is one way of boiling them to the point they are safely edible.

If you find yourself in a survival situation near the ocean, you have an easily harvested bounty with a little bit of foraging in the form of clams.

How to cook them safely if you have no cooking utensils, however, is a different matter entirely; this amazing method of boiling them is one way of making sure you can can make them safe to eat.

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