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ziq wrote

not really but if i'm eating wild greens, i don't wash them, so i consume whatever insects happen to be on them

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existential1 wrote

Same. I eat a lot of aphids this way. Sometimes they're honestly difficult to remove even if u try.

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ziq wrote

I also eat a lot of ants when I'm picking cherries and mulberries. They're really sweet.

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ziq wrote

Oh and stinkbugs unfortunately. They're really really gross and you keep tasting them for hours after.

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moonlune wrote

My grandma used to cook broccoli in cheese sauce so we don't see all those little white caterpillars.

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ruin OP wrote

Same here. I’m curious about folks using them intentionally as a regular protein source.

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Hibiscus_Syrup wrote

Nope. I'd be fine with eating mopane worms if I was in that part of the world, though.

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ruin OP wrote

Those look like a good meal.

I was asking because my kids are all about the idea. They got interested in eating insects last fall but it was too cold already so they just ate the few ants they could find.

Should make for an eventful spring.

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crime wrote (edited )

Sometimes, for brief moments like this, having kids doesn't sound like complete hell. Crew of lil bugeaters...

If you're in an area well suited for it, build a simple little grasshopper trap when the weather turns! Fun project that you could elaborate on and def make from wild bits instead of plastic, and you might get a meal from it.

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ruin OP wrote

They’re the hell of a lot more fun than adults.

Grasshoppers are on the list once we’re not buried under two feet of snow and it’s actually warm again...

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yaaqov wrote (edited )

Not technically an insect, but I’ve recently eaten, and probably will eat again, Armadillidium vulgare, AKA the rolly polly/pill bug/etc.

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ruin OP wrote

How did you prepare them, if at all?

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yaaqov wrote

Well, so it was really just experimental since they live in my compost and everywhere else—I boiled one and ate it straight. In the future, I’d like to try to cook with some. It was honestly pretty good—they taste a bit like shrimp, though in combination with the shell, it was sort of like after you’ve eaten raw spinach, in terms of that oxylic acid astringent mouthfeel? This was an adult, with a pretty thick, calcified shell, so that was part of it. Overall, totally pleasant.

I know historically, they’ve been infused into various things, like butter and even wine.

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Hopium wrote

Not in my current lifestyle, but there was a stretch when I had a Black Soldier Fly farm and used to put them in omelettes.

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ruin OP wrote

That’s on the list to try this year.

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Hopium wrote

It's real good. They're meaty but there's also a nut-butter-like thing going on.

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86944 wrote

No. But I'd probably eat them before I go back to meat given the choice.

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rot wrote

not intentionally

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