No, not a food substance but frogspawn.
I've had frogs in my small barrel pond for years but it was only two years ago when I got my first batch of frogspawn. Nothing last year but this year I got two batches about a week apart.
I rescued the second batch and moved it in to the house to hatch out. There's a childish delight in seeing them grow inside their little circles of jelly and then hatch out into small black embryos that slowly turn into tadpoles.
Some hatched faster than others, some didn't hatch at all but most did - at least a few hundred did. Separated the larger tadpoles out from the smaller ones. Lucky I have an old plastic fish tank and a large glass bowl to house them in.
Fascinating to watch - you can see more of the frogspawn 77 day journey from 'egg to legs' on my Sussex Nature Notes blog.
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