Filet mignon and brie, for free!
Posted on 05/05/2022 4:42:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An upstate New York woman has revealed how her decade-long dumpster diving habit has allowed her to eat everything from fresh produce to filet mignon — while only spending about $25 a week on food.
Filmmaker Theresa Kadish, 31, has been rifling through trash for years and says the food she finds makes up a third of her diet.
She picks out perishable goods like fruit, vegetables, eggs, and meats from dumpsters, and has even served what she has scavenged to guests.
'Seriously, there's no difference between dumpstered and non-dumpstered food, and I don't assign preferential ethical or cultural value to either,' she said.
Theresa went 'dumpstering' for the first time when she was 19 and had moved into a collective house.
She and the other people in the house were hosting an activist marching bank, and went as a group to a distribution center for the Odwalla beverage company.
They were able to bring home several thousand dollars worth of fresh squeezed juice that had been tossed out.
'I was astonished by the wealth that could be found in the dumpster,' she said.
Though the dumpster smelled of alcohol and rot — and had a fermented pool of juice at the bottom — she happily filled up her car with the nearly-expired cartons and drove home drinking mango juice, determined to never pay good money for it again.
Slowly, that changed to hardly ever buying food again at all.
'I kept imagining all those hundreds of gallons of juice in the days after. I told all my friends about it,' said Teresa, who lives on a farm in the Catskill Mountains.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Filet mignon and brie, for free!
All those years and she never came across a comb or makeup?
I knew a retired guy and his wife who lived frugally. Maybe they had to, but one of their habits was to salvage food from the super market dumpsters in the alley behind their apartment complex.
He died of stomach cancer a few years later. The wife, I don’t know what happened to her.
a few more years of LEFTIST rule and there will be shootouts at the dumpster for food
Works in the winter. Cold will keep food fresh, but come summertime not so much.
She’s ahead of the game a lot of people will be playing if the food shortage communists get their way.
My girlfriend’s father used to pay her cousins $1 to dive the grocery dumpster for old produce to feed the pigs.
Yeah....I’ll pass thanks.
Wow...that;s a great idea. She doesn’t look sick, so this means we can eliminate the USDA, and their $151 Billion budget!
My first take is that this person is not a she, could be though. Who knows these days...
Strange times call for strange measures.
Looks like the lion on Wizard of Oz. It takes courage to go into those tetanus traps.
Good eats is good eats. For me though. I would rather work an extra billable hour or two and buy groceries than spend a day driving from dumpster to dumpster to save a few bucks.
Come to think of it.... I have never paid for a lawn mower, washer, dryer, fridge, or a microwave. I always took them off the side of the road.
Reminds me of the Heston movie Soylent Green
Growing up in Buffalo, the two weeks of summer were the best in the country!
It’s female...you can see a couple of piglets poking their noses through the fence.
Still, she’s not real healthy-looking and certainly not a woman I would want to be the mother of my children.
Maybe a “hit it and quit it” but not MDR. Not sure I would want my friends to meet her either.
The maggots are free, an unbelievable bonus.
There is no reason for someone to do this unless they’re a shitty person.
Yeah, a nation that tosses as much food away as our nation does based on an arbitrary “sell by date” set by some government agency, will eventually see it’s citizens starve to death. Do people even realize how much perfectly good bread is tossed into the dumpster every day?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.