Try cricket tacos and other insect-based meals at the San Antonio Botanical Garden this weekend

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Rather than swatting bugs away from their meals, two groups of adventurous foodies will be eating the insects.

The San Antonio Botanical Garden and AgriLife Bexar County are hosting a four-course insect tasting on Saturday and tickets are still available for adults and children.

There will be a 10:30 a.m. and noon session to choose from. Each includes recipes demonstrated by four different chefs and a talk about the entomophagy, the practice of chomping on creepy crawlers.

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Chef Stepen Poprocki will cook up coffee-blackened chapulines street tacos, black garlic pico, crema and corn tortillas. Chef Dave Terrazas is going to be responsible for the Seafood Étouffée with cricket flour roux, garni of scallions, toasted Parmesan crips and cricket. Chef Joshua Schwenke is going to serve Thai Sai Oua (Northern style pork sausage) with bee larva, on bed of wok fried chickpeas; bee larva and herbs in "tiger cry" sauce. And save room for Chef Michael Grimes, who will make roasted apples with pumpkin streusel, silk worm cotton candy.

According to event details, seats are limited, so interested guests should make a beeline to the ticket-buying website. Adults are $25 and kids are $10, if you think you'll have better luck getting your little ones to eat bugs over broccoli.

Get a sneak peek at what you'll be eating in the gallery above.

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