Especially if you run out of the food you brought with you!
Here's what they brought with them:
"Their keelboat was stocked with nearly 7 tons of dry goods, including flour, salt, coffee, pork, meal, corn, sugar, beans and lard. About 93 pounds of portable soup, a concoction that was boiled until gelatinous and then left to dry until hard, was also brought along."
Here's what they ate....when they could...in just one day!
"On July 13, 1805, Clark wrote: We eat an emensity of meat; it requires
4 deer, or
an elk and a deer, or
one buffaloe to supply us plentifully 24 hours. "
That is about 9 pounds of meat per man per day!
They ate other animals, such as squirrels, dogs, even a colt. There were no buffalo in the mountains, and they were hungry!
Look through the gallery below. Then go to the Food padlet, and write down at least three foods you could eat. (Squash, beans, and corn count as ONE.)