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 Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:17 am
I'm not above taking scrap wood, furniture, tools, a bicycle, a moped, even scrap metal from the trash. I've taken all of that and more probably. Just never food.
I actually know a guy that i work with who supplements his income by driving around on bulk trash day's and picking up appliances and anything made of metal and then turning it in for scrap or if its worth fixing he'll repair it and sell it for relatively good money. Right now with scrap metal prices at all time high's you get nearly a dollar a pound for aluminum can's, nearly 4 dollars a pound for copper, mixed metal or sheet metal's are worth like 15 cents a pound. So an old refrigerator might be worth some solid cash so think twice before throwing stuff out or someone else will profit from it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:51 pm
I've never tried being a freegan, and I'd be nervous the whole time if I were to try to eat stuff that someone else had thrown out. I'd assume that the store/ person likely threw the food out for a good reason.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:20 pm
Stores are not allowed to sell food past it's Best Before date. It is a reason to them (they can get in trouble either from some health departments depending on location, or from their franchise for selling it), but not to everyone in the world, as the dates are often a guideline.
Example: I found out just yesterday that I brought home a week-expired Kraft Dinner from the store. I ate it anyways, because pasta can barely go bad at all, and the cheese powder seemed absolutely fine. I didn't get sick, therefore it was most likely perfectly fine (for an average immune system at least).
Bread only really "goes bad" when it gets moldy, which can be before OR after the best before date, depending on how it was stored. It very very rarely happens precisely on the date printed on the tag.
Milk is really the same, my grandpa will drink milk a week or more past the date, as long as it smells and looks fine. I feel iffy drinking it the day before the date, because I am a dairy wimp.
I've had cheese with a date months away in my fridge, open for a week, go completely moldy either because I got some moisture in it, or something happened in the packaging process.
I wouldn't take just anything from the garbage, but something properly sealed? I wouldn't be concerned. Of course, that usually means unhealthy processed food, but I LOVE that stuff razz
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Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 8:09 am
I've actually been freegan before since I used to be homeless (sucked, but it's not horrible if you know your area), and I'd watch the restaurants and what they did with their food at the end of the day (some places would double bag their leftover food then throw it out, like Shipley's, and other's would toss the leftover food in with broken plates and glasses, so you had to be super careful).
Later when I finally got an apartment and worked at a restaurant to pay the bills, every now and then I'd take home the food I was supposed to throw out at the end of the day since it was no longer 'fresh' but besides that, had nothing wrong with it, so it cut my grocery bill in half, using the bread loaves, quiches, potato galettes, rotisserie chickens, and strawberries romanoff (I worked at La Madeleine's for a while).
Freeganism can be an awesome supplement to whatever you eat, but it does have it's toll on you when that's the only way you eat.
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