Our diet consists of around 150 plants - much fewer than even the diet a few thousand or hundred years ago. And it is reduced to mere 12 if we dispense of the spices. Many edible plants, which were hot favourites in the times of war and famine, have long gone out of fashion. In the beginning of the 20th century, the French doctors compiled a list of around 80 plants, which they labelled hunger food. As many could be found in Poland. The article recalls such vegetarian dishes as manna and nuts or beech seeds.