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The Strangest Food I Ever Ate… [GIVEAWAY!]

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“Getting Adventurous” week is going great so far! It is hard to believe that we are over halfway through the Wellness Challenge! Are you still going strong?

The Best Meat Recipe Challenge to win Grass-fed meat from US Wellness Meats is still going on! Enter now if you haven’t already (or enter again, if you have!) They also sell some delicious bacon in case you have a craving for… chocolate covered bacon!

We’ve also gotten adventurous this week with Probiotic Lemonade, which is an easy way to add probiotics to your diet, especially if you aren’t making Kombucha Soda or Water Kefir Soda! (If you want to make those too, you can get the cultures for them here)

Making fermented foods and drinks has been a fun experiment for me lately, and I definitely plan to continue trying new fermented foods and drinks. Since I’m still a novice at fermenting things, I wanted to give you all access to a master so that you can learn more easily than I did… (lots of mushy pickles don’t live to tell that tale!)

Wardeh at Gnowfglins is back again with a fantastic way to learn how to naturally prepare and preserve foods. Wardeh teaches a wonderful online course that takes you step by step through the process of making fermented foods and drinks. I’ve been going through her courses lately and learning a lot! She adds new material weekly, so there is always something new to learn!

The Contest!

Today, Gnowfglins is offering a 6-month membership to her online courses to the winner of this contest. Her course is invaluable if you are just diving into the world of fermented foods and drinks, and it will definitely give you a head start without the learning curve (sorry pickles!)

To Enter:

Step One: Check out all of Gnowfglins great courses and Sign up for her newsletter which is full of useful information!

Step Two: Leave a comment below letting me know that you signed up and naming the strangest food you ever ate!

Why the strangest food you ever ate? Before I turned my kitchen into a science lab of random fermentation started adding probiotic foods and drinks to my diet, I thought fermented foods were strange and wouldn’t touch them. For me at that point, just trying them would have been an adventure.

Fast forward a few years, and I can’t imagine my life without sauerkraut, water kefir and kombucha, but I certainly used to think it was strange. Knowing what I know now about the health benefits of fermented foods, I’m certainly glad I started eating these “strange” foods.

Now, the honor for strangest food I’ve ever eaten would go to fried mealworms, though I don’t recommend them nearly as much as delicious fermented foods. Runners up include pickled pigs feet (eww) and alpaca cheese (strange).

Contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on Friday, August 19th. Winner will be announced in the weekly roundup!

What’s the strangest food you ever consumed? Sign up for Wardeh’s newsletter and tell me below!

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  • Sherry England

    I am already signed up for GNOWFGLINS newsletters.

  • Sherry England

    Squid.Weird texture

  • Sarah Laughlin

    I signed up for GNOWFGLINS newsletter. The strangest food I ever ate was an extremely spicy curry with no beat–just bones with marrow and fat. I was a guest and did my best to enjoy it but it was hard for me to stomach. That was before I learned how good the marrow is for you. 

  • AmyJ

    I signed up for the GNOWFGLINS newsletter. I had a hard time coming up with something that I’ve eaten that I felt was strange. Kombucha, sauerkraut, fermented salsas/mustard/ketchup/mayo, kefir… they all seem normal to me now. I do remember that I thought the texture of paneer was so very strange!

  • http://www.getfitkate.blogspot.com Kate M.

    I signed up for the newsletter.

    Strangest food I’ve ever eaten?  There have been a couple of things that deserve to be on that list, but my top pick is definitely cockscombs, a dish I tried at dim sum one Sunday.  Very strange texture.

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  • Michelle Connelly

    I signed up for the newsletter! I’m so excited to experiment with making these foods/drinks!

    The strangest foods I’ve ever eaten were grubs, big ones. Witchetty grubs are these huge white-ish larvae that are roughly the length of your pointer finger and about as big around as your thumb. When roasted, one kind tasted like creamed corn and another kind tasted like creamed bacon…but neither in a pleasant way for me! The pointy feet and crispy shell are creepy as heck! The other one I had looked like a large seed, just about a centimeter & a half across, that you break open and lick the goopy inside out of. It was sweet with a bitter tang and turned out to be WASP larvae…ick!! Yup, good times in the Australian outback!

  • http://profiles.google.com/ceciliapowers Cecilia Powers

    i’m already signed up for the newsletter…

    i didn’t eat it, but on Sardegna, (island west of Rome) they make a cheese that has maggots with it, the maggots eat the cheese, then regergetate and continue the process, and you actually eat the maggots and their byproducts, as part of the cheese.

  • theresa gianna

    signed up for the newsletter!

  • theresa gianna

    strangest food…gosh, i’m not sure. i tried kimchi this summer, which was delicious, and strange for me because i’ve ever so defiantly claimed to hate cabbage. i also started experimenting with making water kefir sodas — my family certainly thought they were strange. alligator, maybe? (which is pretty good. chewy, but good.)

  • Jmm2858

    Im aleady signed up for the newsletter. Strangest food for me was probably frog legs. When I first started dating my future husband, he took me frog gigging on our second date. We then took the frogs to his grandparents house and fried ‘em up! Other odd foods I have eaten is head cheese (made from the whole pigs head). You can even see bits of eyeball in it. Also pickled pigs feet. Never tried these but there is a beer store near us that sells pickled lamb’s tongues.

  • Jmm2858

    Im aleady signed up for the newsletter. Strangest food for me was probably frog legs. When I first started dating my future husband, he took me frog gigging on our second date. We then took the frogs to his grandparents house and fried ‘em up! Other odd foods I have eaten is head cheese (made from the whole pigs head). You can even see bits of eyeball in it. Also pickled pigs feet. Never tried these but there is a beer store near us that sells pickled lamb’s tongues.

  • kellie

    Thank you for this awesome opportunity, im all signed up!
    …its funny, now that i started reading your blog, my perspective on what is ‘strange’ (and what is food for that matter) has shifted so dramatically that my strange radar really goes off for alot of things i used to eat as a “super healthy” vegetarian ;-)  …things like cheetos, tofu, seitan, and and power bars – seriously … what is that stuff?? strange!!

  • Greta

    I signed up for the GNOWFGLINS newsletter.

    I haven’t eaten too many strange foods since my whole foods journey started a few months ago, but I think Kombucha is probably the weirdest.  A SCOBY is just… strange.  It was hard to drink at first, but after just a few days I started to love it!  

  • Matthew Stiles

    signed up for the GNOWFGLINS newsletter.

    Strangest food? Limburger cheese, get past the smell and give it a go, it tastes pretty good.

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  • Soccy

    I’m already signed up. Strangest food I ever ate was first eaten in Mexico as a kid. I had Menudo which has tripe, which I loved. And also cow brain and tongue tacos. Funny, I don’t find them so strange anymore b

  • CarolM

    I am signed up for Gnowfglins-love it.

  • CarolM

    I think maybe headcheese is the oddest, it was a regular on my grandpaerents Sunday table.
     To anyone who doesn’t know it is pickled brains.

  • oliveluski2

    I’m already signed up for her newsletter.

  • oliveluski2

    I guess I’m not too adventurous, but have come a long way since I now eat kraut and kvass and pickles. Probably the strangest thing so far is eating the kefir grains.

  • Jennymoonstar

    I already subscribed to the newsletter. The strangest food I ever ate was broth made with chicken feet and internal organs. I know most people don’t think that’s too strange but for a recovering vegetarian it is!