Woman feeds family for a week with 11-pound mushroom find: 'Twice the size of my head'

A woman who found an 11-pound mushroom while on a hike was able to feed her family for a week — but experts warn that doing so could be life-threatening.

Alissimon Minnitt, 27, of the village of North Marston, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, recently spotted a large white object while out on a hike with her father, news agency SWNS reported.

Thinking at first that it was garbage, Minnitt soon realized she'd found an extremely large puffball mushroom. She foraged the mushroom and brought it back to her parents' house...