There are many things Brian could eat in the forest. He might eat animals like birds, fish, or deer. He might also eat the roots, fruit, or flowers from plants.

If he was really hungry, he might eat snakes or bugs! Yuck!

It was hard for Brian to find food to eat, as he had never had to hunt or search for food.

The first food he ate was berries, a special type of fruit he nicknamed, "gut cherries." Listen to how Brian describes the taste of the cherries. Would you eat them?

He almost spit them out. It wasn't that they were bitter so much as that they lacked any sweetness, had a tart flavor that left his mouth dry feeling. And they were like cherries in that they had large pits, which made them hard to chew. But there was such a hunger on him, such an emptiness, that he could not stop and kept stripping branches and eating berries by the handful, grabbing and jamming them into his mouth and swallowing them pits and all.

The real name of these cherries is choke cherries. Click here to see a picture of choke cherries.

What food group do the cherries belong in? What other food groups are on the food guide pyramid?

STOP AND THINK