Food

The Lostaways have several sources of food.

Sawyer and Kate with a bundle of plantains gathered by Kate.

Natural

Protein

Collecting food is dangerous, hard work.

Some choose to waste it.

• Pork from feral boars, generally hunted and killed by John Locke. (However, since filming with boars is a production nightmare, boar has been deemphasized as part of the Lostaway diet.)
• Seafood, including fish and sea urchin, usually procured by Jin, who was raised by a fisherman, and mussels, which can be pulled off the rocks at the beach
• The Tailies successfully caught, killed and cooked up a feral chicken, however chickens have not seen near the main camp
• Danielle is depicted in a deleted scene on the Season 1 DVDs as eating a raw egg, likely liberated from a bird's nest

Carbohydrates

• Fruit, including plantains, bananas, mangos, guava and papayas, often gathered by Kate
• Coconut milk and the flesh of the coconut
• The contents of Sun's garden, which have not been specifically identified but both herbs (which may be either medicinal and/or edible) and fruit tree saplings (specifically guava and mango) have been mentioned.

Artificial

The Hatch pantry

• The Dharma Supply Drop, which provides them with Dharma-branded staples familiar to consumers of the Western diet. This food, originally discovered in the Hatch, was the source of The Big Feast. It may be irradiated, as the ranch dressing, at least, can last for seven years without refrigeration.
• None of the Dharma supplied food seems to include meat.
• List of Dharma supplied food:
  • Peanut butter
  • Apollo Candy Bars
  • Dharma Ranch Dressing
  • Dharmalars
  • Nacho-type chips (Hurley was using them to scoop up the ranch dressing when caught by Sawyer.
  • Cereal
  • Maccaroni and cheese.
  • Cheeto-like food (among the food from his stash that Hurley trashed.)