Bristol forager saves £200 a month on food shop by picking food in his local park View 3 Images

A man saves £200 on his monthly food shop - 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" and says it saves him £200-a-month on his food shopping during

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