Forager saves hundreds on groceries by picking food in local park

Lewis Pidoux is a forager and chef with nearly twenty years of experience harvesting food from the wild. (Tom Wren via SWNS)

By Jamie Saunderson

A man saves £200 (over $250) on his monthly groceries by foraging for nettles, wild mushrooms and dandelions.

Lewis Pidoux, 41, has fond memories of picking blackberries with his dad as a youngster - and he got hooked on the hobby in his early 20s as a way of fuelling long-distance hikes.

Wild ingredients now make up about a fifth of his diet - and his inventive meals include nettle pakora and acorn pancakes.

Having recently gone part-time in his job as a chef to focus on growing his YouTube channel, the green-fingered Bristolian aims to make foraged food nearly 100 per cent of his diet.

He views foraging as a way to "connect with nature