hey why arnt we talking about the good food that comes out dumpsters. we are feeding family everyday with the excess waste. if i was a vegitarian i could eat fat off of all the produce thrown away. we do however supplement our diet with dumpster delights. and not just food but thrift store dumpsters are great for other goodies. some states such as cali you have to go to the trader joes but arizona the dumpsters are phat. floridas got good dumpsters all around ocala, we are being blessed thanks to jah. with ocala coming up lets focus on the good things in life. more food less stress we all in this together
Woo..Love the subject 3 weeks ago in the Win-Dixie in Ocala.. we pull up to the dumpster 2 older men are there.. I stop the van get off.. and they ask what I needed I told them just looking for some food.. 3 dumpsters full!.. this local guy volunteers to sort the garbage.. to recycle plastic. We got tons of goodies.. fresh chicken eggs milk fresh herbs it was right after Halloween ton of chocolate. Am visiting my mom in Miami now.. and last night we scored 50+ freash bananas my fav!..
Ha ha dumpster bananas, oh the memories... hope you don't mind banana pancakes for the next week Recycling stations sometimes have a drop-off for the thrift stores so you can score good clothes and stuff too. Happy diving! Becca
lol yep...thats what I just had for b-fast... And thrift are indeed good diving. great gifts for any occasion.
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the winn dixies are great, the one outside ocala on 200 is phat. we always look in dumpsters because you never know. i have heard liq. stores are good to check out, i dont drink but alot of tramps have told me to check them out. my children love it when we come back with a score, they say all good things come from dumpsters. i then tell them all things are blessings from jah, and jah should be praised
Big Lots. They don't throw stuff out often, but when they do, there's a big lot of it. You practically have to hit one every day to get that couple-three good canned goods scores per month, but it's worth it. And their dumpsters are clean, since they don't sell meat or produce.
yay dumpster diving! there is a good sized group of us here in pensacola who get great dumpstered veggies each week
I hadn't been on a good dive for a while, so I just had to go today. Lots of little juice boxes, little cans of mandarin oranges, bacon, chocolate syrup, and Easy Cheese from the Food Lion on Hendersonville Road in Asheville. Yaarrr, that be good punder, matey...
how about we start a list of good dumster locations, here in St. Paul Mn the Whole Foods Market is located at Grand and Fairview its fenced in but the gate is never locked and they throw away all kinds of good stuff everyday. I use to work cleaning the store and have gotten a lot of good food out of there, plus just to the left facing the dumpster is a loading dock and along the left hand wall through another unlocked gate is about six 50 gallon trash cans they put all kinds of fruit and veggies in everyday these are picked up by a hog farmer a couple times a week. Alot of the stuff in the dumster is prepared food too, good stuff all organic, maybe I'll seeya there, it's right on the busline to and the store closes at midnight all though I really doubt anybody bother ya for collecting food anyway. love ya
thats what im talking about, we have been to alot of towns it would have save me some trouble in california to know most stores have conpacters or kmart doesnt. we were in bakersfield ca. i found 21 bus tokens i later kicked down to some LA family, but on a whole finding a good score wasnt easy. smart and finals have bananas everytime we went. some states are really kind with their produce. now we need to put it togeter
While I agree that there is entirely too much waste going on, there is absolutely no way that I would be feeding my family from a dumpster. How safe is that really? Who knows what kind of germs have contaminated it? I'm not talking about the canned goods, I'm talking about the produce! It's one thing if I couldn't afford to go to the store and buy groceries, or I couldn't go to a farm and pick fresh produce, because hey, people have to eat to survive, but because I don't have to rummage through a dumpster for something edible, I think I'll keep it that way. Peace, love, and happiness.
Excellent thread idea, papabear. Hey, remember those huge deli sandwiches we got from the Safeway in Pheonix? All six of us ate for two days off them. Last year at the Ocala holding camp after council (UDLF!!!) we spent almost every night around the fire swapping dumpster diving stories. It was the way that everyone connected with each other instantly. Join any road-dog fire and you can always bond over stories of zu-zu dumpsters and tell phat score stories like old fishermen.
Germs? Like cooties? I don't understand? Is that like pesticides and herbicides? Ok, for those of you who have never eaten out of a dumpster, here's a short primer on the safety and quality of the booty. And I'll try to make it short, because I'm sure we all have lots to say on the subject. So, #1 Pick produce as if you were shopping. “Rummage” only for boxed or bagged items. Produce is often sitting right on top of the pile in a box, clean and fresh as the day it was picked, with minor bruises, etc. You'll know what's good. #2 Luckily not many dumpsters are filled with loose yogurt or rotting slime. Supermarket waste is so epidemic that most dumpsters need to be emptied every day. Food is only slightly less fresher than it was a couple hours earlier when it was on the shelf and you were paying $6.99 a pound for it and not worrying about germs. #3 Dumpster produce is just like purchased produce in that you must wash it before you eat it! #4 If I were worried about contamination of food, I'd have to grow it all myself. Certainly I hope that one who worries about the safety of dumpster food worries about what goes on in corporate food prep factories. can't wait to hear what mama and papa bear have to say about this!) Hey papabear, remember when we met at the Gorman gathering I was trying to start a book for nomads that had good dumpsters listed? I didn't get very far. I think I got the best tips from you guys. Anyway, good dumpsters? Ok, please don't overwhelm the good people of Safford, Arizona anymore than they have been, but we ate fat off the Safeway dumpster there. And what was the place in Sedona, papabear? Where we got the case of Pepperjack cheese (and left two cases of bologna), and the shopping cart full of pastries that we gave away to people out of Eric's bus in the parking lot out front? The manager had no clue, cause the “Free Food” sign was facing away from the store. He came out and kicked us down $5. That was a blessed place. I wonder what the UDLF are up to these days. FREE THE FOOD!!!
In Sedona I think it was the Bashas with Erics bus. Don't forget Flagstaff, awesome dumpsters there!!! All of Az is pretty good. Remember when that lady kicked us out of the dumpster, I don't remember where, Greg thinks Tuscon? As for germs and such, I do carefully select and wash all produce and canned goods. I usually peel fruit for my family anyway because of pesticides and waxes anyway its not that big of a deal. Its not like we don't go to the grocery and buy LOTS & LOTS of groceries, we have a big family. But I can't just pass up good, fresh FREE food for us. Apples in bags laying on top of boxes, or inside boxes. I won't usually grab anything that has anything yucky on it anyway. Spilled yogurt or squished fruit on anything usually means we pass it up. There have been times when I watched the clerk take it out and put it in the trash and went right behind them and took it out. Produce is usually inside heavy duty waxed cardboard boxes for easy transport to the dumpster, therefore very clean. Organic food has a high dumpster rate, you can't afford it in there, but it abounds in the dumpsters. The Nashville Wild Oats cashier told me if I was there at close he would give us all the food to be thrown away that night.
