Camp Cookery day

[Lore]

I have spent time in the woods, I have foraged, looked under dead fallen logs, looked in the leaf litter, under rocks. In all that time I have not found a Lidl smoked Salami the best bushcraft food in the wild. So I just pop into Lidl on my way out and enjoy it when I get there over an open fire.

[iotarho]

In that case Lore you are looking in totally the wrong place. In my neck of the woods we have them growing from trees and can even find a few silverback gorillas handing out a few behind the run down scout hut.

Which leads me nicely onto the next point of that the gorillas aren't so much top of the food chain...Just exempt from it, as everybody else bar a maniac with a high powered rifle is too terrified to hunt them.

[Lore]

[redneck]

In that case Lore you are looking in totally the wrong place. In my neck of the woods we have them growing from trees and can even find a few silverback gorillas handing out a few behind the run down scout hut.

Which leads me nicely onto the next point of that the gorillas aren't so much top of the food chain...Just exempt from it, as everybody else bar a maniac with a high powered rifle is too terrified to hunt them.

Every living thing on the planet is part of the food chain and Gorillas haven't only been taken with Rifles..other primitive technology has taken them too, maybe because they don't have the brain capacity to recognise those tools of their destruction, because they're not top of the food chain!!

[Iona]

Mmmmmmmmm... *salivates....

You have no idea what I wouldn't give to have been there!

You guys have however inspired me to do something similar round here, will sound out the natives, but be warned, I may well be pm-ing you with random requests for advice.

As for the debate... I was veggie for 15 years. I decided to start eating meat again 5 years ago, when I started changing my whole lifestyle to be more natural. I decided that my main problem was with intensive farming methods and big multi-national companies exploiting the environment in order to produce c**ppy food.

I think some locally reared, free-range/organic or (preferably for me) wild meat is a feast fit for kings! (and queens )

Also being veggie would have in no way stopped me from participating in and enjoying such an amazing day out, I just would've had to be a little imaginitive when deciding what my contribution could be! Oh and there are a lot of trees and plants around that are REALLY good to nibble on I do find it hard to get my head around the idea of food being an "inconvenience", but I guess that as I cook for a living, that would be a bit alien to me...

Once again Celt_Ginger, thanks for the inspiration

[redneck]

Mmmmmmmmm... *salivates....

You have no idea what I wouldn't give to have been there!

You guys have however inspired me to do something similar round here, will sound out the natives, but be warned, I may well be pm-ing you with random requests for advice.

As for the debate... I was veggie for 15 years. I decided to start eating meat again 5 years ago, when I started changing my whole lifestyle to be more natural. I decided that my main problem was with intensive farming methods and big multi-national companies exploiting the environment in order to produce c**ppy food.

I think some locally reared, free-range/organic or (preferably for me) wild meat is a feast fit for kings! (and queens )

Also being veggie would have in no way stopped me from participating in and enjoying such an amazing day out, I just would've had to be a little imaginitive when deciding what my contribution could be! Oh and there are a lot of trees and plants around that are REALLY good to nibble on I do find it hard to get my head around the idea of food being an "inconvenience", but I guess that as I cook for a living, that would be a bit alien to me...

Once again Celt_Ginger, thanks for the inspiration

That was a very sensible, well thought out and rational post, thankyou...I'm sure there will be another wild food /camp cookery day soon, I know CG has already mentioned the subject. Mouldsy ,Combatblade1 and Celt-ginger come up with some great ideas for these days out, they're always a challenge, always get you thinking and most importantly when the day is over I have always found that I come away knowing more, understanding better and being more capable than I was before, a great learning experience.

[Sniper]

I love the idea of a cook out day and it looked fantastic lads well done. I wonder if any of the locals around here would be up for a bit of the same.

[jimford]

I wonder if any of the locals around here would be up for a bit of the same.

I reckon Sawney Bean and his family would be up for it!
;^)

Jim

[rik_uk3]

Interesting to note that the price of organic stuff has dropped a lot in the big stores, just shows how much the likes of Tesco were charging in the first place and the profit they made from the 'greenies' soft enough to pay the inflated prices.

I've no objection to "two for a fiver" Chickens, at the end of the day its meat and I like it.

Before anyone moans, two factory chickens make a nice meal, but I'll pay top dollar for well hung meat, it all depends on my menu that day

[Mouldsy]

no harm in two for a fiver mate, if your like me and have a family to feed they come in handy

[Mouldsy]

hi guys, i'm new to the forum.
it all looks great.
i'm in county antrim too, so do feel free to keep me in the loop for any future meets.

cheers lads.

Check your PMs mate