Aboriginal Food

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Aboriginal food.

One of the most famous bush foods is the witchetty grub. The aboriginal diet has changed since 1788 because when the british first came to australia they started to changed the types of food used to eat. The way they grew the food first started with farming and then in factories. Other grubs eaten by aboriginal people include worms ants and numerous other types of insects.

Other insects eaten by aboriginal australians include cicadas and caterpillars. Similarly pascoe argues australians should be consuming more native fauna like kangaroo and wallaby that was also once an aboriginal food instead of hoofed animals such as sheep and cattle which were introduced by settlers. The food that the aboriginal people gather is from the australian bush. One of the most well known traditional aboriginal foods is the australian witchetty grub which is actually native to central australia where the watarrka region is located.

Witchetty grub endoxyla leucomochla an australian aboriginal food it is the larva of a cossid moth 10x8 25x20cm print 10101059 framed prints posters canvas puzzles metal photo gifts and wall art. Facts about aboriginal food 6. For example cows sheep potato and corn. Grubs provide protein in areas where it is hard to come by.

Whole wheat pastas and brown rice. They like collecting acacias lemon aspen seeds herbs fruits and nuts roots of eucalyptus fig trees grass trees apples quandong and lilly pilly. Oatmeal mush for breakfast. The witchetty grub remains a common snack or meal addition in australia and is high in protein and nutrition.

Can and preserve fruit to use in the winter months or buy canned or plain frozen ones. Barley in moose stew caribou stew or fish head soup. A wide range of plants and animals were eaten by australia s aborigines and insect foods included certain ants grubs moths and beetles while streams provided fish and eels in some regions. Whole wheat flour berries and raisins in bannock.

Preparing the food the aboriginal women are very clever. Honey ants in western australia. And the commercial fishery. Country meats moose deer caribou.