[GaddesdenGal]

Thank you ZacTheLad that was delicious soup!  definite addition to our budget menus. 

[Lesley Silvester]

I used to make a cheap pud by stirring some dried fruit into a very thick batter mix then deep frying tablespoonsful.  Drain well (Kitchen towel?) and dunk in sugar.  They're a bit like doughnuts.  I fed my friend's husband once while she was away and gave him those.  The next day my friend was round asking for the recipe.  Her OH had sent her.

[happygolucky]

Well, after reading plumbs post, we are off to find a butchers, 11 bits of game for  £5.   Any good butchers nearish........that's more of a bargin and food for the dogs

[honeyend]

Not the cheapest soya protien the colout is more meat looking. I sell vegitarian food at festivals and people often think its meat.
http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/pages/product_detail.asp?pid=2767&prodid=3670&cid=52
Tesco( spit) also sell it in their whole food department.
Makes a basic tomatoe sauce and add spices
 
 
 

[Plantoid]

Buy a 1/2 bucket of wheat, each meal time eat a cup of boiled wheat  add yoghurt and beaten egg  every other day
 Buy 1/2  a bucket of un milled barley grain pop it in a pan like popcorn after using fat off the meat
 for greens use netttles , wild garlic , yarrow etc
For meat  snare rabbits , pheasants partridge etc
 For desserts  eat boiled wood lice  and then lightly fry them or use reasonably fresh road kill
 buy a tin of evap milk add a few spoons of it to the creeded wheat he wood lice once a day
 Drink clean cold water

[Clarebelle]

If I was desperate I could do all of the above i think, *except* the wood lice! xD I know insects are a great source of protein in a survival situation but I just can't get my brain to accept it in my mouth! lol.

[bloomer]

If I was desperate I could do all of the above i think, *except* the wood lice! xD I know insects are a great source of protein in a survival situation but I just can't get my brain to accept it in my mouth! lol.

if you fry them lightly in a dry pan then mush up whats left you get a protein paste thats easier to swallow and just as healthy!!!


you do need a lot of woodlice to make a difference though!!!

[Womble]

On the contrary Bloomer, I suspect a little woodlouse would go a very long way.......

[happygolucky]

what about slugs?   I can find loads of them and they are easy to catch

[bloomer]

slugs are about the most inedible thing you will ever come across, they just taste bad!!!


river cottage did a piece on them in one of their series and the consensus was anything was better than slug!!!


snails on the other hand...

[happygolucky]

Shame, I can " grow" them 

[plumseverywhere]

I have one phobia in life and its those little scuttly things you are talking about eating!! I go to pieces if one so much as comes near me, my 9 yr old picks them up and chases me round the house with them  ick ick ick.

[happygolucky]

They are repulsive to me too, poor little unloved things  , I force myself to turn over stones, pots and logs to collect them and feed them to the hens, they sometimes are not that keen either, don't  blame them. Anyway, I would have t hought they would taste nice after eating loads of my salad leaves last year

[RUSTYME]

The 'test' is to get by on £5 for 1 week 'buying' food in i believe ? Therefore eating roadkill , bugs , or any 'free' food would be a different test .
My spag bol had 'free' , home grown , garlic in , so i would need to add the cost of this to the list , +.30p , taking the total to about £5.64 , i think ?
This could easily be taken down to the £5 limit by removing some mince , or buying less .
I am not trying to do the test though , i live my own test as it is already lol .
Eating bugs  etc , is a very different test .
If i had to live on roadkill , i would be dead in a week , not enough where i am . However , could i survive on what i could find in hedgerow and woodland and what i could catch then yes , very easily , although it would be a very different diet to the norm , and i don't do bugs , absolutely no need to in the uk . That is purely for 'tv look what i can do' types .
I live in a very rural area , so it is easy for me to do this , but i grew up in London , and learnt how to 'survive' in the wild there , so it is possible to do even in urban areas .
It would be a very different 'test' though if 9 million Londoners were trying at the same time !
I think i would rather stay where i am and continue my own test thankyou very much lol .

[happygolucky]

There was a women who put a list of places to eat free, forgot her name but she even put things like events that were going on, she suggested looking them up as often in the city there are taste testings, grand openings of galleries or shops etc, I know a lot of supermarkets do free drink fill ups, if you could smuggle a flask in  , then you could get at least 2 cups for later!!! You could also gate crash a few local wedding receptions I suppose, nip in quick with your posh hat and suit on and there you  are, even in restaurants people leave untouched food, so that's another town/city option, although you often need a bit of money to get into them. I suppose you could also door knock and ask then run off pretty quick or go to visit hospitals or residential homes and see who's got grapes and asleep Sit near the chip or fast food shop and accidently bump into people, say sorry but franticly pick up some chips or sausage as they fall, and of course bins Night sleepers get food deliveries by charities, my husband regularly took stuff around in Oxford and in London. In a resturant you could order a tea and sit near the kitchen door and do the same as outside the chippy, well until you get rumbled and thrown out!
AND....although bits are serious, no way would I do any of the above....just kidding