The most unusual thing used as food

[jeffleft]

Arzosah was questioning the safety of eating apples from a cemetery and apart from reminding me to question, does black spot transfered from roses effect pears enough to stop me making pear cider?

Arzosah got me thinking what can be used for food?

Apart from my cousin from Australia who would crunch down chicken bones and a few friends with plans to eat grass rather than remain in the eu!

What can a preppers body stomach?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Hmmm chicken bones . Buy a pressure cooker add what ever is left of the carcass add few bits and bobs you have 4l of chicken soup / broth / stock to scoff

[grenfell]

On another forum a question was asked what use grass is . Obvious!y animals can eat it but it was suggested that it can be made into leafcurd for human consumption. It's not something i've looked at in any greater detail than a quick google and i'm not totally convinced but it's a thought.

[Arzosah]

Didn't people eat grass during the wars as Yugoslavia fell apart? And (as per The Death Of Grass ) aren't rice and wheat grass? Sorry!

[grenfell]

Having a google brings up this ,
https://www.quora.com/Can-we-eat-grass
Seems it's at least possible although we aren't really evolved to extract nutrition from it .
Yes i believe wheat and rice are grasses along with barley and rye (and possibly oats ?) although it's really the seed of those grasses we eat rather than the actual leaves.

[jeffleft]

Didnt the dutch eat Tulip bulbs during WW2?

[grenfell]

Out of necessity they did ,
https://www.fluwel.com/eating-tulip-bulbs
I seem to recall someone during that same war suggesting that people should eat rhubarb leaves , this time here rather than in holland although unfortunately i can't find a link . Thankfully that "advice"was soon dropped ,,too much oxalic acid to make them edible.

[jansman]

It is interesting what can become ' food' when you are hungry:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_food

https://www.naturalnews.com/051663_emer ... pping.html

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-historic ... balism.php

[grenfell]

Thankfully we're a little way off from that last one .

[Arzosah]

With the first two, though, there are some comparatively ordinary plants listed as "famine" foods: nettle, dulse, mustard, watercress, sorrel, beetroot, sweet potato ... it also lists orache, which I saw being grown for the cafe in the kitchen garden at Ham House (National Trust in London) last Tuesday Mind you, I won't be eating silkworms or scorpions any time soon, they *do* count as famine food