1Food, typically uncooked, from plants and animals native to the Australian outback.
he can live on bush tucker in places where most people would starve
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Hunting and gathering for bush tucker is a favourite pastime among most age groups.
Bush tucker is fantastic in terms of its nutritional content.
Louise plans to visit Darwin where they do safari tours to Aboriginal art sites and help you find your own bush tucker on the way.
If we go looking for bush tucker or hunting we teach our children not to destroy or break branches off trees.
Graham, who learnt from his father and other Barkinji elders, is a walking encyclopedia of traditional bush tucker.
You can walk into the hills and beyond to collect bush tucker, and hunt kangaroo.
He first began eating the brown bogong moths 11 years ago while researching a book on bush tucker eaten by Aborigines.
James says bush tucker is coming into vogue, with renewed interest across the community in foods native to our land.
She takes doctors on trips to teach them about traditional medicines and bush tucker.
Drawing on 40,000 years of knowledge, Aborigines will teach 10 overweight young Britons how to survive on bush tucker in the TV series.
2Foods regarded as typical of Australia's colonial past.
the dish is a new twist on bush tucker
as modifierthey served a bush tucker meal of roast lamb with damper and billy tea
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Military food is certainly not so hard as bush tucker, upon which these men have developed strong, healthy bodies.
Some of them have since thrown up their job on the ground that bush tucker did not suit them.
I open up a few tins an' in no time I've fixed us a good bush tucker meal of sausage stew.
His party rallied him on being a poor traveller unable to enjoy bush tucker.
A week of fishing and swimming, of bush tucker and general relaxation, and everyone returned fit once more to face the season's rigors.
There is no proof that the migrant, taking him in the bulk, ever gets properly "acclimatised" to our bush tucker.
Give me the old bush tucker and bush life before it all. A man's his own master there, live as he likes.
The camp fires begin to scintillate from one end of the rush to the other and 2,000 hungry men sit down to bush tucker of the roughest sort.
"I can only offer you some bush tucker," said Lance, smiling, "mutton, damper, and tea".
His numerous friends are hoping for the best, but fear that the hard bush tucker and the change of liquor from P. and O. squash to spring water and billy-boiled tea will be his undoing