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.
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You use a microwave?
I guess articles like this are to prepare us for what our future will be like.
You can’t eat those! :-D
I was in the garbage industry for 6 years. There is a lot of good food thrown away. Especially canned goods and boxed dry goods. Some stores threw perfectly fine perishables out because policies about only being on the shelves a limited time. They even boxed it up clean knowing someone would be digging it out and eating it.
Good chance her home is seriously infested with Germans.
Thank God I have a microwave, Pretty soon I will have to be nuking ramen in a plastic tub because that’s all I will be able to afford with Bidenflation.
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