Thanks for writing with your viewpoint. Yeah, the cricket thing is bothersome when I see the large boney ones with those folded up legs that resemble sticks. That is just as bad. I am not fond of giving mine crickets unless they are small and young. Whether roaches and crickets have nutrients is not what I question so much, its their size and structure. I would not offer someone peanut brittle if they had no teeth, likewise a ribeye steak. I don't see what's wrong with dusting roaches in fiber powder first, maybe that would help the frog. I'm still trying to help frogs/toads when they can't. Maybe their meat is good, no question, its their size, frogs can't chew like we can, shells would be slower to digest and have a better chance of impacting, constipating, blockage.

I don't eat food that is too big, too hard, or if I can't chew it first. People chew then swallow. Frogs just gulp and swallow. Even flies bred indoors seem more reasonable to give. I like your honey and soaking idea. When you have inactivity, curled up intestines like they are in our bellies, and something too big to fit, its like trying to squueze an idaho potato down your kitchen drain. I've had digestive complaints same as frogs and its not painful. I know to avoid it next time I eat. I still feel for a frog/toad that has to experience several days of cramping, pain, buldging abdomen. This is not fun.