Eat 90% Foraged Food for 10 Days - foraging.wood.tendays PEP BB

How would you check the calories for foraged foods wbich often are difficult to find nutritional information on? Is “this looks like 1200 calories” enough evidence?

Also what is meant by “foraged food type”? Is this species, genus? Or is it more like root vegetable, shoots, greens, berries, seeds, etc?

For the Calories, I'd show three similar(ish) common cultivated foods that you can find stats for online and use the lowest Calorie/weight figure of those three, or maybe use the average but make sure to go well over the 1200 Cals per day. Probably anything that makes it exceptionally obvious to the grader that you haven't skimped would work.

As to "food type" I'm guessing it means species -- on the one hand, https://permies.com/wiki/150764/pep-foraging/Forage-Calories-Species-foraging-wood specifies six species, which sounds pretty close to this one, but on the other it does specify "species" so maybe they would have done that here if that's what they meant. Species is kind of a weird category to use but I guess they have to have something. We're rolling into syrup season and it puts me mind of wondering whether I could harvest six kinds of syrup and be good to go -- I have five different species of maple and also birch. :-D But again, if you make sure the six are pretty different you're going to make it easier for the judges. If you eat chive blossoms, blackberries, sorel leaves, milkweed pods, acorn flour, and maple syrup, no one is going to think two of them are of the same "food type". But are acorns and butternuts different enough? I don't know.

That sounds reasonable.

So for instance, at minimum:
-acorns - nut/seed
-sunchokes (wild) - tuber
-nettles - greens
-dried wild grapes - fruit
-prickly ash bark, or maple syrup - spice/bark

If you have a nut/seed, a root vegetable, a green vegetable, a fruit, and a spice, that sounds like a relatively easy balanced meal to make. In this case one might make a nettle/acorn soup with some wild grapes, and spiced with maple syrup and/or prickly ash, which sounds quite delicious.

But it might also be relevant to spread this over multiple seasons to have some variation in the seasonal foods available.