Holes, do you eat them ?

[flossy]

   We all suffer from the odd infestation which give us  ''  holes  ''  in our cabbages etc at some

    time ,  what harm is there in well washing, inspecting the leaves and eating them -- 

    holes - an -all  ?

    floss xxx

[betula]

On some of mine more hole than leaf

[star]

I would Flossy....and do. Specially if you have washed them in salt water.

Tell me.....how would yer eat a polo mint? Hehe....the hole's the best bit

Enjoy yer cabbages  

[Flighty]

I'd of thought that eating the holes was a good way to diet! 

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'd eat them. Our ancestors had to, and if they hadn't survived the experience, we wouldn't be here!

[asbean]

The holes are a bit tasteless, as if there's nothing there.  No substance, or bite, if you know what I mean. It's the cabbage that's around the holes that's OK.  Just so long as there are no lurkers in there 

[betula]

Great diet food.Should have thought of that

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[flossy]

   A hole can't hurt you can it,   my Pak Choy has been got at  and I am trying to convince

   hubby to harvest and sow some more,    looking forward to a good stir fry but have to

   get round the feeling things arn't '  proper  '  ,   sure he never met 'holes' before !

   - sheltered  life, love 'im,    

    Thanks star , betula and flighty .....  holes ar OK !      

    Love Polo's,    

   floss xxx

[plot 22]

It's called the holefood diet

[saddad]

Welcome to A4A Plot22

[plot 22]

Thankyou, glad to be here

[Kea]

On the other hand if it's a potato surrounding the hole I'd check very carefully before eating. I served a potato with a hole in it that I thought I'd checked out carefully......but i missed a smaller hole and the slug was still in it...one of my son's got it cooked I managed to extract it off him before he dissected the potato to find out what the grey thing was just before he found out!

He never would have eaten another home grown one again.

[saddad]

We have served up boiled slugs several times... 

[1066]

  A hole can't hurt you can it,   my Pak Choy has been got at  and I am trying to convince hubby to harvest and sow some more,    looking forward to a good stir fry but have to  get round the feeling things arn't '  proper  '  ,   sure he never met 'holes' before !

My 1st sowing of Pak Choi got well and truly munched, rescued and ate some of it. hoping for better results with the 2nd sowing.
Can't you cleverly disguise the holes by chopping the leaves a bit?

By the way - fantastic thread to read on a drizzly day 

[flossy]

   Thanks 1066,   thought I may make soup then quickly liquidise it !         

   --  found a snail munching through the net this morning,  shell too big to follow on - grief !

    - good idea, chop finely,       

    floss xxx

[1066]

Just remember to chop the pak choy finely and not the snail 

[Deb P]

I'm always finding slugs sliming around our fridge where I obviously haven't washed the lettuce thoroughly enough..... I see it as a bit of extra protein!

[pippy]

We have found slugs in salads before ... and the odd boiled caterpillar or blackfly floats to the side of the pan or steamer ....   .

As for whitefly on the underside of Kale, it never all washes off so I have come to regard it as added protein.

[amphibian]

I'd eat them. Our ancestors had to, and if they hadn't survived the experience, we wouldn't be here!

Our ancestors no doubt benefited from the odd bug in their diet, great source of protein your common or garden maggoty pest.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Not only that, but they'd have been exposed regularly to a vast array of germs, and they'd have had far more immunity than many people today.