Feeling awesome and blue

It is not very often that I get to do something that is cool and food related, but today I have just the thing to make all of your stomachs envious.

Is that how I should say it? Is it "all of your stomachs" or does that make it sound like you are cows with many stomachs?

Anyway my bovine friends... This weekend we visited the grandparent's summer cottage and got to do something bloody awesome (excuse my Australian) which was, picking blueberries and eating them straight out of the forest! How fantastic is that!!

I don't get to have a lot of fresh food due to my allergies yet blueberries seem to go well enough and I ate a lot of them as they were everywhere. I ate, and ate and ate and there was always more of those blue balls of the gods -

that doesn't sound right either...

.. to find in the forest.

Mummi gave me a bucket so I could collect them up but that just slowed down my eating so I ditched that idea and shoveled them in as fast as my little fingers could rip their juicy goodness from the bushes.

The trick with hunting blueberries in the forest is:

• Live in Finland.

I think that is about it. While we were at the cottage, our apartment is surrounded by wild blueberry bushes also so while Daddy is at work, I am planning to go and hunt and cull those blueberries in the forest like uncle @galenkp does kangaroos in Australia. I don't do any of that long scope out at 1600-meter nonsense like him though - I like to get up close and personal and get my hands dirty.

And my face.

Bath in the blood of blueberries just like the Vikings of old would do. I am pretty sure that is historically accurate, but just in case it is not

I am not yet three years old, so why are you getting history lessons from me?

Like seriously, I ate so many blueberries I am not sure if my lips will ever lose the color they have turned and I am unsure if pink dinosaur shirt will forgive me for the blueberry finger prints that somehow got onto her.

In this last picture you can see me holding the skeletal remains of a blueberry branch that I stripped of its flesh, just before I tossed it away into the bushes to warn its friends of their coming fate.

You will learn to fear me - blueberries..

It really was a lot of fun to do this and it is pretty amazing that it is possible to get such superfood like wild blueberries (yes, yes, bilberries @celestal) straight from the forest. In the Autumn, these will be replaced by my favorite of favorites - Lingonberries and Mummi and Pappa promised to collect a whole bunch for me to put into the freezer instead of buying them from the shop for a while.

Finland has some great things in the forest to eat and the berries are fantastically tasty. I love that I am able to go into nature and not only play some awesome games, but have my snack right there. All I need now is to find one of the other things that I can eat from the forest here . reindeer.

For that, I might need uncle @galenkp and his scope though.

Do you have food you can find in nature where you live?
Go eat!

<3
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