I think my wife was an aboriginal in a previous life.

Last 2 nights she has made a salad and then some vietnemese rolls out of a leaf from the garden that I had never seen or heard of being used before...and that was the Avocado tree leaf...twas delicious it was.

She also harvests the lawn out from for some other weedy looking this before it is cut and throws that in both salads and veg dishes.

There is another creeper type plant that she jumps out of the car to get on the sides of the road.

O/S recently she collected wild herbs from the roadside to put into a dish she was going to cook up.

If we were to move to Australia...should I be worried she might go walkabout?

Thai people eat many edible foods from the wild, my family does it all the time. I also believe that was what helped the Viet Cong to out wait the US during the war in Vietnam, a little sack of sticky rice, pick up the rest from the jungle.

It has helped supplement their diet in the past, and looking at the 3RD world looming food shortages seems to be in the wave of the future, I think it would be wise to be able to identify wild food sources, should sometime in the future you ever need it.

Edible bugs, wild greens, small fish, frogs, snakes etc, would do well for anyone to know if they ever have to survive in the wild.

Cheers

We have all sorts of strange, yet apparently edible, plants growing in our garden. I can eat a few of them, but most taste like crap to my western taste buds.

I've had to buy a gas cooker for outside use because some of these weeds stink up the house when cooking.

My wife nearly died when she saw kangaroo for sale in coles.

when up-country it is one of the joys of my holidays, when the mother in law and her friends, go looking for bush tucker, its is a real community thing, even many dont have to do it,for any economic reasons, it just seems they enjoy it and maybe it is a throwback to a more stress free time..

I am jealous that you have someone to teach you about bush tucker in Thailand. I would love to know more about wild plants that we can eat. I think vegetables from the market and food stores might have too much chemicals and stuff like that. So free organic greens would be nice and I think some of that stuff is probably really healthy even if it tastes bad.

I am jealous that you have someone to teach you about bush tucker in Thailand. I would love to know more about wild plants that we can eat. I think vegetables from the market and food stores might have too much chemicals and stuff like that. So free organic greens would be nice and I think some of that stuff is probably really healthy even if it tastes bad.

Thats what my mum used to say at the dinner table every night...

Isn't it great that you can still get bush tucker here. My wife and the in laws are at it all the time. I especially like various types of wild spinach, mushrooms in season and best of all jungle yams. Last year they found one that was 1 metre long and about 10kg. I'm told they get to 60kg Im not so sure about 'mutloom' though its supposed to be a magic veggie that cures everything.

Wow! You've found a typical hardworking aboriginal cook. Good luck, mate.

Bush Tucker? ...Sorry, I came in by mistake.

I was trying to find the Low Class thread.

I put this is the farm thread but might be interesting for a few of you here ??

www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf

Insects, food of the future

Any relation to Les Hiddins?

We wouldn't starve. paklian is abundant (A southern shrub), We are often brought bush meat, large frogs, squirrel, wild pig, and small deer.

The way the political mess is escalating, unless you want to pack up and fly out, bush tucker skills might become invaluable

When living in SE Queensland my wife would often ask me to stop and she would collect leaves etc from plants for cooking that she recognised she use to eat in Thailand, as well as young bamboo. She did not eat insects, but the women from Issan and the North of Thailand would collect some of the insects in Australia and cook/eat them.

Few years ago i spent 2 weeks in a Isan village with a former gf.. She a was a bush tucker, and she could find medicinal plants for all purposes.

Every morning i used to go on food expeditions with her and all the children of the family.. For me it was just a good excuse for a walk in the wild, but they were collecting any kind of food.. Herbs, mushrooms, bamboo sprouts and fish in the ponds, which were numerous in the village surroundings.

Oh, and the joy when they could find a nest of big red ants.. Their eggs seem to be the best delicacy for them... The old mother was the specialist in finding that highly appreciated food.

For me it was like a window into the past..And in the future, perhaps.

I too would like to no more

Being a big fan of The Bush Tuckerman myself watching alot of Les' series on youtube.

Brings back memories watching that show years ago in Australia

We live in a townhouse complex and ladies are collecting green leafy plants from around the very small vacant but slightly over grown areas.

I found out that there is a particular Croton shrub you can fry up. leaves only

It is the very narrow leafed one yellow and green I know it when I see it

Kirby

Unripened Mangos...with salt and curry powder....tastes good but WOW....what a gut ache