Natures shopping trolley - do you wild forage?

[Slowandsteady]

I've picked and eaten brambles (blackberries) but not much else. Do any of you wild forage? Do you know what fungi are edible and which species are poisonous?

 

[Rocky]

I don't wild forage because I'm always worried that I'll eat something that is poisonous or will make me feel ill. Even when I'm getting water, say from a lake, I tend to use a few drops of iodine to purify it. This is particularly so if I'm doing a long walk like Coast to Coast or the Pennine Way, as I'd hate to end up abandoning due to an upset stomach.

 

[Lullabelle]

We have picked wild blackberries from as high up as we could reach but other than that no, I don't know what to look for/what is safe nor do I wan't anything that a wild creature has been around

 

[Andy_R]

I've picked field mushrooms - they're very easy to identify, but otherwise I've not forayed into fungi. Coastal forraging is a lot easier - most seaweed is edible, as are limpets and cockles. A word of warning about limpets though....only eat limpets if you really, really need to. It's like trying to chew your way through a tractor tyre, and about as tasty.

 

[Spinney]

Only blackberries, and occasionally elderberries.

 

[pipes]

Plums, apples, blackberries, fish, mushrooms, shrimps, cockles, mussels but draw the line at road kill.