Talk about ancestral diet… I am an avid forager, gathering and cooking wild mushrooms, greens, nuts and berries all year round here in California. I also collect and eat crayfish, mussels, bluegills and crab.
It’s kind of hard to get nutrition info for a few of these things (I mean, acorn burgers?) but I try to guesstimate.
Any other wild foodies out there? Would love to share wild keto photos and recipes.
I guarantee without question that the first mushroom I ate in the wild would kill me. I’m smart enough to know that i’m not smart enough to do that!
Always seems really cool when i see people on shows that are able to do it though, so good on you.
I have done it in the past, live in the suburbs now so not so much available.
I’ve found morels, black trumpet mushrooms, chestnuts, (these were while I was in France).
While in Australia, I dug for clams and other bivalves, along with catching octopus :).
When I was growing up crayfish and regular fishing, I went with my aunty to gather the wild herbs that grew outside of town. And the berries of course.
Here in Colorado, I have gathered dandelion greens when they are well away from roads, puff mushrooms, some eatable “weeds”, that sort of stuff.
I just don’t do it regularly. And when I was doing all this I was not tracking macros nor calories. Now that I am retired, I may get back into doing some of this again. It is pretty time consuming, but your outdoors and it is a fun thing to do.
You’ve sure done a lot! I’m also exploring the whole foraged keto cocktail thing now too – I have some beautiful Colorado juniper berries I use for homemade “gin”!
It is… I make it part of my exercise out walking around. Cleaning and trimming the haul is also a big part of the work.
My mini man and I scored a big Lion’s Mane fungus right outside our front door last fall!
Sautéed with butter and a hint of garlic and you’d think you were eating fresh crab or lobster… It has such a lovely taste and texture. I also collect wild chaga and make tea and tinctures.
When the weeds grow better than what you plant, you need to eat them. Lol…
Wild spinach for my eggs this morning. I let the purslain volenteers grow as well. That is always nice in a salad.
Ooh, love that wild spinach stuff!
The deer are eating my purslane, dang it, but I still get some. And my garden also gets overrun with a tasty wild lettuce that I love.
Twice the veg for half the work!
