to eat acorns you need to soak out an offensive bitter from them with several rinses, but you can make flour and grub out of acorns.

and with acorn pancakes, the squirrels will just leap into the skillet.

i've had squirrel stew, muskrat, rabbit. most small game are agreeable in the stewpot.

I suggest if you are in such desperate need of protein, something has gone terribly wrong in a cormac mccarthy 'the road' kind of way, and more power to all of us.

Dealing with wild game in the middle of a bike tour? maybe in siberia, otherwise no thanks, i'll hit up the red owl.

on a raunchy side note, a woman and avid bicyclist i used to work with talked about 'squirrel tail', which is a lot more tasty.