It's the only edible thing on this train,' a voice instructed her emphatically from across the table.
He also has the uncanny ability to find (and cook) edible things in the most unlikely of places.
I have also noticed that there are no fruits or nuts, nor any other edible thing.
It was the only edible thing in the pantry.
It reached out to grab the nearest edible thing.
Now he looked for edible things as he ran, pine nuts, meadow onions, anything.
The problem for the hungry animal is to distinguish the former from the latter, and only to put the edible things in its mouth.
Outside the rabbits are approaching the edible things, as they always do when darkness begins to fall.
The birds would spy out kittens among other small edible things.
Worse, the bluffs along the river were not good for growing edible things, at least not here.