I have unintentionally become pescatarian recently because I’ve come to realize that fish have a lot of nutritional value. So far, my meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 slice of Ezekial bread toasted
  • Mixed berry smoothie with banana, peanut powder, collagen peptides, chia, creatine, non-fat greek yogurt, and water

Lunch

  • 2 tin cans of sardines, mashed
  • Non-fat greek yogurt
  • Tzaziki sauce
  • Lemon
  • Black pepper
  • 2 slices of Ezekial bread toast or one ezekial tortilla, depending on my mood

Dinner

  • Shrimp kebabs made with olive oil and veggies
  • 1 corn roll or asparagus

Some days I’ll switch out my dinner for a salmon salad / salmon wrap, or I’ll change the shrimp kebabs for a shrimp ceasar wrap with a nice avocado oil based dressing. Being pescatarian is really great because it’s easier to make, shelf life lasts very long, and it’s generally cheaper than buying meats.

  • KorhakaEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Not sure if limpets are crustaceans, but yeah anything with a shell I would think is shellfish.

    IIRC limpets are not filter feeders, mussels are. So in water that is sometimes polluted they are not as much of a risk while filter feeders are very high risk. Does also depend on the type of pollution though.

    I know people eat crabs from the Thames, pretty sure the Solent isn’t quite as bad as that for pollution. As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually? Might be ok if it’s only a little but to make a stock I would think you need quite a few of them.

    Quick edit - Could use limpets as bait though. Otherwise likely most suited as a famine food.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Limpets are indeed molluscs. Crustaceans are like underwater insects, with every single part of their bodies typically covered in thin-ish keratin-based plating. That said, they include some oddballs like barnacles, which build shells more like bivalve molluscs do (clams and such).

      You’re right about the different feeding methods of limpets and filter-feeders. Limpets are like gastropod molluscs (snails, etc) in that they eat directly from a surface or prey.

      As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually?

      Oh, I’d generally thought that most animal material (and of course waste) makes for good fertiliser, but maybe it depends. In truth, I was thinking back about a garden project in which we used a kind of ‘fish guts’ solution to help grow produce. The plants loved it!

      • KorhakaEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I think the main problem is that it’s far more likely to attract things like rats if you are throwing out stuff like that. But it probably also depends on how you compost it.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Right, it would need to be blended up with some water such that it quickly sunk in to the soil, like the fish guts liquid fertiliser.

          • KorhakaEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Ok that might work. Getting a blender for that seems a bit excessive though. Maybe diced finely and then spread out among a bunch of other things though.

            That assumes that limpets can even make a stock worth bothering with of course. I think it might be but can’t find too much info on them, or many recipes.

            Just remembered Atomic Shrimp tried it, back in the website days - https://atomicshrimp.com/post/2010/08/25/Limpets-Another-Try

            So generally limpets are going to be tough regardless of what you do to them. Not inedible though. But could work for a nice seafood stock. Perhaps if you got a variety of things you could also collect limpets for stock.