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filthyknees
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dumpster diving for free food
#19320236 - 12/24/13 09:19 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I dive at least once a week to acquire my fruit, vegetable, and bread needs. I have done this for the past three months without fail. So far I estimate my savings to be >$750.
I rescue about four times the amount of food I could ever eat. To counter the cost of gas/time and have made money after that I feed my room mate with the agreement that the fridge will stay stocked with fruits and vegetables and he will pay me $25 a week. The investment costs in doing this are: $10 small flashlight, $3 rubber gloves, $X gas, $X time.
an example from last week: 20 bands of kale x $3 = $60 10 bands of collard greens x $2.50 = $25 20 apples x $1 = $20 15 oranges x $? = $? 2 bags of clementines x$ = $? 5 beets x $? = $? 10 radishes x $? = $? 10 packs veggie bacon x $3 = $30 5 premade vegan sandwiches x $4 = $20
savings excluding ?ables = $155 in one trip lasting about 1.5 hours diving and 1 hour washing produce. 155/2.5 hours = $62/hour is not too bad. At this rate I earned back the investment with a savings after of $140. Assuming I dive bi-weekly the savings is ~$300/month, and with the agreement I have with my room mate ~$300+$100= ~$400 a month is a fair estimate of my savings/earnings depending on how I feel
I eat like a king, and the money I save goes to buying gourmet health foods like flax seed oil, e3 live, green vibrance, or spirulina. And of course almonds walnuts and hemp seeds.
Hopefully this inspires someone to save a buck, or two. If it does and you find yourself with excess I suggest supporting groups for feeding the hungry like food not bombs info here: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/ and for US: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/unitedstates.html
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19320280 - 12/24/13 09:34 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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how's the quality of the food? when someone says dumpster I think of rusty wet old trash, am I wrong in thinking thats what the food comes in contact with?
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filthyknees
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Harri]
#19320437 - 12/24/13 10:24 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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the quality looks like food I would have bought from a grocery store, half the time, and the other half the time the food is slightly bruised/one day away from store bought, or for instance one in ten clemetines is broken.
what is in contact with the food? plastic bags, cardboard boxes and least of all the dumpster itself (I most often leave things at the bottom because that is where liquid collects). One organic market dumpster I go to the employees place all the produce in boxes and leave it outside the dumpster, literally no dumpster contact. Even when I go inside a dumpster it is only day old grocery food so there is no layered rotting Chinese food residue or nasties. Worst I have found is packaged meat, which would worry me, thinking about bacteria.. but they are sealed, often within a garbage bag, where as produce is thrown in loose on top mostly.
At first I thought that food must sit there for days and start to get rotten, but the sheer amount of food thrown away at every grocery store every day at closing makes bi-daily if not daily trash pick ups a necessary.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees] 1
#19321840 - 12/24/13 03:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Thats kind of cool the employees/owners leave the food outside the trash knowing hungry people will take it.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: ManianFH]
#19324427 - 12/25/13 04:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yeah you would def have to locate very cleanly dumpsters to dive in. The ones I am picturing in the back of my local grocery store are stock piled with old Chinese food grease and nasty ass shit. Getting on the good side of the employees to leave the produce outside seems legit.
I saw some show where people did this shit and cooked it up for like local poor people and themselves. :0
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19324708 - 12/25/13 07:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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One day man, Babylon will fall. 
and by this I mean it saddens me you resort to this, and find such bounties in the waste, in the richest nation of the world, where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 40%, in a world where five hundred milion live in famine.
Babylon will fall man, may we live to see it.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19325001 - 12/25/13 09:53 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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a funny thing is, the food prices grocery store goers pay is inflated to make up for all the loss. So in the end, they pay for the trashed stuff (80% of my food) so to all grocery store goers out there I say: thanks and keep it up otherwise I would have to pay the same as you! It will wiccan, one mind at a time.
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Edited by filthyknees (12/25/13 09:57 AM)
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19325096 - 12/25/13 10:31 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Check out the breadstore dumpsters, I used to live out of that thing when I was a kid, all kinds of pastries, donuts, and bread of course.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19331988 - 12/27/13 07:32 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
a funny thing is, the food prices grocery store goers pay is inflated to make up for all the loss. So in the end, they pay for the trashed stuff
I disagree, the ones ultimately "paying" are the 500 million people living with famine. I'm not only talking Africa but in your own country too, malnourished people. You salvage some of the great wastes there are, and what a tragedy so much is wasted when so many are in need.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Asante]
#19336000 - 12/28/13 08:21 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I hear you. I cook and distribute about twenty-five pounds of food to hungry people each saturday, almost all of it is rescued from being brought to a landfill to rot. The group I associate with typically feeds a hundred people if the weather is nice and people are out. Always with many vegan options and always vegetarian.
(Almost) funny that the typical american dieter considers meat and carbohydrates the main course, and fruits and vegetables to be an optional side dish. They might just eat a leaf a lettuce, slice of tomato and some pickles.. if they are in between a fried meat patty and white bread with condiments. Nutritional starvation is serious, statistically, my generation will be the first to die before their parents. With the way my generation chooses to live they will have earned it
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: filthyknees]
#19336091 - 12/28/13 08:54 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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there was a tornado that hit near buy back in November....took the power out at a local walmart and krogers.....they didn't have a back up generator for their freezers or refrigerators...they were throwing away every item they had and wouldn't let people take it home....I'm talking 100k worth of food....chicken,corn,shrimp,beef milk juice....the stuff was frozen solid but that was their protocal for when the power goes out for a while....think it was out for 10hrs or something but the freezers were never opened and kept very cool without the power.....
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Asante]
#19346859 - 12/30/13 03:41 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Wiccan_Seeker said:
Babylon will fall man, may we live to see it.
i work i through out 100's of $ of food a week,and im am not to bring it home unless i pay for it. so i pick it out of the dumpster b4 i go home. free food is the best food so keep up the good work.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: skullphuxxx]
#19347483 - 12/30/13 05:27 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow thanks for the great idea, ill have to check some of the dumpsters round my town. I used to check the dumpster at my local biglots everytime I'de pass when I was younger, most of the time it was junk, sometimes it would be filled to the rim with unopened packages of snacks. Nothing like getting stoned and having a endless supply of free junk food
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Deemstar]
#19347864 - 12/30/13 06:43 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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you can also ask your local grocer store for there expired veggies(for compose ) some give it up for free!
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: skullphuxxx]
#19349869 - 12/31/13 04:56 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Respect guys *hugs*
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Asante]
#19369847 - 01/04/14 07:08 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said:in a world where five hundred milion live in famine.
LOL - 500 million / 7 billion = 7%
That would be amazing if only 7% of the world lived in poverty.
In India about 80% of the country (1 billion people) live on $2.50 or less a day!
5.6 billion people on this planet live on less than $10/day (80% of world population).
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Confucian] 1
#19373138 - 01/05/14 01:54 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow those numbers are mind boggling
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: ManianFH] 1
#19373587 - 01/05/14 03:54 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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-------------------- But if you're in a hurry, and really got to go If you're in a hurry, might have to find out slow That it's one thing to try and another to fly You get there quicker just a step at a time It's one thing to bark, another to bite The show ain't over till you pack up at night
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Confucian]
#19397355 - 01/10/14 05:13 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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You misunderstand, I'm talking actual famine, not malnourishment. A few billion are malnourishged but about 500 million live in famine.
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Re: dumpster diving for free food [Re: Asante]
#19400278 - 01/10/14 05:15 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Are you guys serious? That's nasty. All those saving are gonna go down the drain when you get sick.
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