What do you eat on an expedition?

What do you eat on an expedition?

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Food on an expedition varies enormously. There are the inevitables, the horror stories about having to eat insects, having to eat my dog, and these sorts of things. But these are survival moments; they're not typical at all. In fact, I'm not a great one for thinking about survival in that when you're thinking about survival is when things have gone wrong, and you've got a different strategy. Generally on my exploration I'm trying to make the Amazon or the New Guinea like a home, and so the word survival shouldn't be cropping up. This should be a resource. It's only when things get bad that it actually enters your mind. But no, I'm eating whatever the locals eat. And generally, it's quite dull, to be honest. There's a lot of -- in the Amazon -- a lot of fish, and so. A lot of basic carbohydrate type food. But, anything. Monkeys.