Foraging Fun with Furry Friends

Why forage alone when you can forage with a friend? Furry friends are even better!

As some of you reading may already know almost 6 weeks ago I adopted a four legged friend :) A very naughty Jack Russel X that my work friends n I found on the M1 Motorway, Since then Roger has been just about everywhere with me and has a minimum of 3 walks a day.

Some days I curse the day we brought him home but the other 99% of the time I LOVE his company and enjoy our walks. You may wonder what this has got to do with foraging? A dog can be one of the best foraging tools you will ever have!

• Roger tells me where another dog/fox has urinated by sniffing or marking the patch himself.
• You will always have a plastic bag to hand to collect any finds.
• Not one person has stopped and asked me what i'm doing as i'm eating breakfast straight from the tree.
• When removing a poop bag from your pocket people just assume your going to pick up dog mess, not the hazel nuts you just found.
•  When you decide to pull up some horseradish from a roadside where you shouldn't really be picking people once again assume you are cleaning up dog mess.
• When walking a dog daily you build up a really good foraging map of your area, noticing new trees or plants you didn't notice before and you watch them flower, bloom and ripen meaning you never miss certain fruits coming into season.
• You dont have to share your bounty :P
• Dogs are also great at finding road kill
• Lastly and most importantly when the zombies are amongst us you will have a dog to protect you and make you aware of any zombies presence

So if you don't have a dog borrow one or adopt one :)

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Twitter- @zombiefoodbible

Introduction

Hey, Thank you for coming to take a look at my blog, I know i am about 8 years late joining in on the blog scene but here are my reasons why.

The long term goal is to write a book called the zombie survival food bible which would be a recipe book, and a how to guide for basic foraging, hunting, cleaning animals, preserving, fishing, fire building etc. As I started to write I realised the detail I wanted to put into the book and the extra skills I would have to learn really will take many years to complete. The more I write more ideas came to mind and now the content for the book that I want to write is really more like an encyclopaedia.  I also wanted everything thing I do to be photographed to prove that everything I write has been done by me first hand and I'm not just ripping off other peoples recipes etc

For those of you wondering why its the 'Zombie' survival guide and not just a plain old survival guide there a few reasons- Firstly who doesn't love zombies? Secondly, this adds an element of fun too the book and challenge pages such a looting etc. Third of all there are so many laws in place and rules for foraging, hunting etc that i wanted to keep the book as simple as possible. in a world full of zombies the law no longer exists as we know it.

So why blog now?? Yesterday was a bad day! worse than bad! Heartbreaking! I went to my chest freezer to get a duck out for dinner and the contents had somehow defrosted ... sank into a pile of blood, fruit, fur and nastiness and then refroze. I do not have a penny to my name as I had just returned from holiday and now I do not have my back up supply of food which I intended to live off for the next 5-6 weeks.

After a day of sulking, sobbing and self pity i decided its time to do something positive! Its time to pull out the big guns and source my food without a trip to the shops. Luckily I have a fantastic family and outstanding friends who are willing to help me on my adventure. Mum very kindly fed me last night with Eggs from her hens, Potatoes from a neighbour and Gammon from the shop. My cousin called round later last night after hearing about the freezer incident with a bag off scrumped potatoes, foraged blackberries and a wood pigeon her friends cat had brought home.

I will blog intensively over the next few weeks on my meals, i do have tins, herbs, spices etc in the kitchen to add to recipes. But also i will publish other sections that I have already written and intend to publish in the book in years to come.

If you have any questions, Idea's, feedback or input please get in touch!

One final word- I am dyslexic, my grammer is appalling, i use lots of smiley's, I incorrectly use -;"?()  and even when i proof read things i get it wrong and I write how I speak! Pleaseeee bare with me. As my very good friend Chan would say 'I was born to be real, not to be perfect'

Thanks again!
Summer