This University of Oxford Grad Feeds Herself on £5 a Week by Eating Food From the Dumpster

Business Insider ^ | David Ibekwe

[nickcarraway]

Josephine Liang, 25, is part of a growing community of "freegans," people who eat recently discarded food to reduce waste.

Liang used to shop regularly at the supermarket, then found a cheaper alternative by rummaging through bins, a decision that she says has lowered her weekly food bill to just £5 a week. Liang will wait until shops and cafes close, and then go through their bins to see what she can find. She is saving the money to go travelling.

[beaversmom]

I think I saw that episode. I love that kind of stuff.

[Gay State Conservative]

Why am I just now discovering freeganism? It sounds totally cool and radical!

Freegans

[alexander_busek]

George Orwell already did this stunt long ago and wrote it up.

Just finished re-reading his "The Road to Wigan Pier," for the umpteenth time.

No where in it does he admit to eating garbage.

Are you perhaps thinking of a different one of his books?

Regards,

[AndyJackson]

Down and out in London and Paris. I don’t know if he actually fished through garbage bins, but it was pretty rough living.

[alexander_busek]

Well, in Down and out in London and Paris he did recount how he had worked as a plongeur in Paris, so he may have eaten scraps off of the plates before he washed them.

Regards,

[sodpoodle]

Ben Franklin said:
“In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.”
 In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at  year’s end, we have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E.. Coli) - bacteria found in feces.
In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop annually.
 However, We do NOT run that risk when drinking wine, beer, rum, whiskey or other liquor because alcohol has to go through a purification process
of boiling, filtering and fermenting.
 Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health
Therefore, it’s better to drink wine and talk stupid,
 than to drink water and be full of sh**.
 
I’m doing this as a public service.

[Bitman]

And you don’t have to dumpster-dive. You DO, however, have to go into Wal*Mart......

Not sure which is worse...

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Some restaurants and grocery stores were doing that around here, just a few years ago. The reaction from the SJWs, and their ilk was just what you would expect.

The restaurants did it to avoid ruinous lawsuits, in the (inevitable) event a “binner” got food poisoning. The grocery stores were (and continue to) donating all their good, but slightly stale food to local food banks — so that only unsafe food was thrown into the dumpsters. That didn’t protect them from the wrath of the SJW.

[SaveFerris]

Yeah, lol.

I go late at night, which works for me right now, very few folks.

BUT I have managed to wind up behind somebody with $200 of stuff in their cart or filling out the food-aid stuff; even very, very late at night (read that as very, very, very early a.m.).

[Trillian]

Now we know she’s crazy too.

[Noamie]

Wait, is the Fiver per week just the gas expense to transport her to the dumpster? So confusing.