Eat Grub

If you haven't already checked out Eat Grub then you really should.  Talk about leading the way in Entomophagy! 

These two friends were inspired into the world of edible insects for very different reasons.  A combination of their media, marketing and charity backgrounds seems to have been a winning combination!  They understand that importance of sustainability and nutrition but they are also committed to making food tasty.  

The insects are currently all sourced from a farm in The Netherlands (although Eat Grub will be starting their own farm very soon - watch this space!). 

The products available include mealworms, crickets, grasshoppers,  buffalo worms and for the sweet toothed out there, there is some milk or dark chocolate fudge made with crickets.  The fudge is made here in the UK!  They even do a starter pack where you can have one of each of the four insect packets (minus the fudge) and save 10%.  This is a great way to try them all, experiment with some cooking!  The packets are quite informative about the flavour which is great when you are just starting up!  

Unfortunately, they may seem a bit expensive to some but that is the same with any product that is new on the market and prices include shipping from The Netherlands.  However, there are exciting new murmurs coming out of Bristol and other little corners of the UK about various insect farms which I will be sharing with you very soon.  If you want the prices to come down then the best thing is to buy lots and support the market!  



I mentioned earlier that Eat Grub are also keen to make the sustainable and nutritious food we eat even tastier and for that, they've only gone and got their own Chef!  Their website contains some amazingly useful information from the beginners guide to roasting insects to a recipe for curried tempura grasshoppers with sweet chilli sauce.   I have to admit to being a bit lazy with my recipe as I was simply using up the things in my fridge.  I fried up half an onion, added some kale and some of Jamie Oliver's Super Tomato and Olive Quinoa that I had started the night before and added the smallest amount of pesto and a squeeze of lemon. 




 I then gently fried some crickets in lemon juice separately so as not to hide the really lovely nutty shrimp flavour and voila!  It was REALLY tasty and I was pleasantly surprised out how flavorsome the crickets are.  

And just in case you think i'm being biased, you should check out their blog.  They opened their own pop up restaurant in March last year and it was a crazy success with positive reviews all over the media.  For those of you who still think this is a strange fad, think again!  It won't be long before we are all eating insects as a normal part of our diets so it's time to be brave, order a packet of crickets and get experimenting.  Let's face it, Eat Grub provide you with all you need, the ingredients, the recipe, the information and the inspiration!

Just when you thought Eat Grub couldn't get any cooler, they also support the charity Border Consortium, to help Burmese refugees make a living from cricket farms.  I'd be keen to know how you get on so please let me know.