Children taste-test food foraged with chef

The year 3 children learnt which seaweed is best for foraging

A group of school children visited the beach and a campsite with chef and food influencer James Strawbridge to learn about what they could eat from the sea.

Year 3 from La Houguette Primary School in Guernsey learned how to forage in Rocquaine.

Mr Strawbridge tasked the children with gathering various types of seaweed and samphire to use in a cooking lesson.

"There's nothing better to get children excited about cooking than gathering your own ingredients," he said.

Mr Strawbridge told the children to look out for sea lettuce and samphire and said his top tip was "don't eat floating seaweed, you've really got to harvest it with scissors, fresh".

However, he added: "It's all edible, there's no such thing as a dangerous seaweed, so anything you find out there, you can eat. Some of it won't taste very nice, some of it will taste amazing."

'Salty, chewy and crunchy'

James Strawbridge cooked the seaweed on the beach

After a cooking lesson on the beach the children got the chance to try what they had foraged, which was met with mixed reactions.

One child, Evelyn, described it as "salty, chewy and crunchy".

Afterwards, the children went to Camp de Reves and gathered tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce for a salad.

Orla said the trip had taught her that " you don't have to buy things from the shop".

Marley agreed, adding "that you don't need to waste money, you can just scavenge".