Merchandise and Food Shortages in a National Crisis

[Ninurta]

Cicadas are the go in season around here.  Thousands of them.  Best ones are those that have just emerged but the flying ones are as good.  Remove wings and legs and cook them anyway you prefer.  Taste the same as witchetty grubs but the grubs are few and far between here and you have to compete with black cockatoos.
 
Those big black birds certainly know where to find them.

I find the grubs when splitting wood.  Generally feed them to the birds or the birds see them before me and are already poking their beaks into the logs as they are split.

Stinging nettle and young fern tips can be used to concoct a nice brew if boiled but again if push came to shove I'd drink that to replace coffee and tea.  I have a habit of eating jellied sap from the wattle trees if I spy it leaking from the trunk but about a mouthful is all I can take.  Like very soft tasteless toffee in it's consistency when chewed.  But a snack all the same.  

Eels are everywhere.  Dams and creeks.  Bit of line and baited hook will catch them out of any water hole.  Messy things they are but again, if needs be, you'll get a feed.

In short there is plenty to eat  as @SimeonJ mentioned.

Can't be fussy when you're hungry.

Kind regards,

Bally:)

Late last summer I noticed that someone had dropped a crawdad trap off my bridge and into the creek, In about two days time, they had collected 2 gallons or more of crawdads per trap.

I've eaten crawdads out of the creeks here. They look and taste just like miniature lobsters. I heavily salt some water and then boil them in it, and they turn just as red as any lobster you've ever seen. They're so tiny, though, not more than 4 to 6 inches long, that all the meat you can get out of one is in the tail and the claws.

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