free food

so yesterday vangel and i took the kids on the weekly sunday hike.
we headed out to the lake in town.
the weather was perfect and although the group was kind of small (just 11 kids) we all had good time.
then on the way back he decided to stop at his parents house to get some "lapad" to make soup from.
so we go in, and instead of heading to the garden he goes off to the sides and starts picking what i could only assume were random weed growths around the yard.
although suspicious, i figured he knew what he was doing since his baba had been making soup and meals out off this weed looking thing forever and nobody has died yet.
anyway, so today before he went to work he made the soup.
after it cooked for awhile the stuff that used to look like a weed to me started to look a little more familiar.
i went to google and yep, it wasn't a weed at all.
but something much more familiar. like spinach but not quite. maybe sorrel.
apparently they grow wild here. maybe they do back at home too. i wouldn't know as growing up we weren't exactly allowed to eat random plants growing around the yard and i have only seen these greens maybe once or twice in my life and they had already been cooked at that point.
anyway, i'm excited now. healthy meals for free. just walk around town and pick.


my next plan is to pick some dandelion greens for a salad. i love spring.