Free the Food #37 ✔ | "The Most Expensive Food you Buy is the Food you Waste" [2018-04-11]

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“You Don't Need a Silver Fork to Eat Good Food”

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by @reko
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Another succesful food rescue mission accomplished, was so tired after so I fell asleep but here it goes. Unfortunately my main place to dive has put locks on the container but still got one good place left in my area that throw away a lot of perfect quality food daily...

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Latest Update:

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Lizzy is helping out! ;)

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Filled to the brim with perfect quality food...

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Could only bring home a part of everything on my bike...

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Time to head home holding Lizzy in one hand and balancing all the food on the bike

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Our new fridge in the basement getting filled up...

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Found three bags of dog food for Lizzy and a shipload of lingonberry jam!

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Current Free Food in Stock:

Oranges
Lingonberry jam
Dog food
Pizza
Lemon
Brocolli
Cucumber
Blueberry juice
Carrot juice
Mandarin juice
Chocolate oat milk
Pomegranate
Avocado
Onions
Tomatoes
Peppers
Bread
Coffee
Coffee drinks
Mushrooms
Carrots
Herbs
Chicken
Crème fraîche
Salad
Sun dried tomatoes
Yoghurt
Wheat
Apples
Crisps
Flour
Salmon
Garlic
Potatoes
Mustard
Etc...


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Past Treasures:

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Dumpster diving

The practice of foraging in garbage that has been put out on the street in dumpsters, garbage cans, etc., for discarded items that may still be valuable, useful, or fixable.

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Why do I Dumpster Dive?


| Bring awareness on how much food is wasted with our current system |
| No costs enabling me to minimize my dependency on Fiat |
| Save the abundance of food that is wasted and share it |
| No need to power down my Steem Power |
| Great regular exercise and good karma |

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Thursdays Weekly Meet-ups:

We meet up on Thursdays in the middle of the city to share the food we've saved during the week. It's a great way to meet, connect and support each other. We meet between 6-7 pm at the same time as the decentralized farmers market that I've initiated!

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I've got great plans for 2018 and beyond and intend to work hard to achieve it. The Steem blockchain is the perfect place to create positive change as it rewards individuals that contribute to the community and humanity at large. I am wholeheartedly dedicated to this platform and my intention is to create solutions to our current predicament and unite humankind once and for all

I regularly invite people over to share the abundance which I've been doing for many by now and nowadays I of course take the opportunity to introduce them to the Steem blockchain!^^

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CHEERS, STAY TUNED & MAY THE STEEM BE WITH YOU...


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While I buy most of what I consume I also do the same.
I also find myself throwing food once it rots, because at times I buy too much due to crazy low prices.
In my case, I usually dumpster dive for another reason, to rescue drink packs which I get fiat for handing them for recycle.
Once in a while I find good food.
In your case, it seems particularly good.
Ban places which lock their dumped commodity.
This is quite an evil practice.
Not purely evil, but still evil.
At the same time, respect the places that do not do it, by buying in them once in a while.
If their prices and service justify it.

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yeh I have also been recycling cans lately for fiat... here you get $0.15 for every can so pretty nice...some times I find a lot of them that the store thre away for some odd reason...or even better full cans of for example beer which ofc is a treat and then recycle for fiat!^^

Where I am, most bottles and cans are worth roughly 0.0857$ at current USD prices, which are fixed in the last year or so, like almost every other price.
There are a few bottles which are worth 4 times, which is around 0.34$, but they are much rarer and harder to find, and heavier to carry, although the biggest and heaviest bottles are worth as little as I stated before.
And then there are also bottles on which one gets nothing.
I found some full bottles of beer too.
I wish to sell them as beer is disgusting and bad for the health.

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Good post.Quality food :)

Wow. You actually do dumpster dive?
That's pretty impressive.I hadn't any idea on what it was all about. I can't believe all that is wasted food.

I do indeed and been doing for 7-8 years by now!^^
Impossible to fathom how much is thrown without having seen it with your own eyes...

And to think there are so many starving homeless people out there. Life can be pretty unfair sometimes.
It's really humbling to see you doing this out of choice.

Wow..you are really kind person,you want to share free food to others,I am sure there are much happiness to all receiver.success for you

thank you, it's a blessing to give...makes everyone happy including me!;)

Oh my... these foods look like they're still in really good condition! But why do people throw them away?... 😢Great news the world has people like you @reko who "rescue" these foods...Even the term "rescue" shouldn't exist when it comes to food, but sad to know people put them to waste and make food need rescuing.

Anyway, thank you very much for sharing this @reko and continue doing awesome and valuable work! All the best! Cheers!

ty @everydayart! Yeh it's being done systematically by the stores and the employees have no choice but to throw it or lose their job unfortunately! :/

Yeah... that sucks. 😔 But all thanks to your efforts in giving these foods a chance to fill people's hungry stomachs. By the way, I just remembered I saw quite the same thing on Youtube, featured by Great Big Story. It is a "food rescue" where volunteers salvage unwanted (but still good) foods from supermarkets and harvest extra produce from fruit/veggie farms, and give them to people

HEy reko, every time I look at those pics I always silavate... yummy 😋 , can you send some to Nigeria 🇳🇬 heheheheh! Great pics... do have a nice day!

lol think it might spoil before arriving!:P

Every one of your stories makes me shake my head at the amount of waste and dross. I really admire your mission here Mate.

ty mike!^^

I see your posts like this periodically on my feed and every time all I can think is... seriously? That's how much good food people toss?

When my dad was still working, he worked for a national grocery store chain and we had a blackout that effected many states. I lived two hours north of him and was not effected by the blackout. WOrkers at the store were tossing all the perishable food away in the dumpsters in the back of the store. Once there it was free to all. My dad loaded up his full-sized van and brought me all the food. I was a divorced mom of three, had three freezers and two refrigerators- Believe me.. it was so appreciated and we had enough meats, dairy products and more that kept us fed for months.

I am just appalled at the waste.

yes it is awful to witness and what's makes it worse s that most stores have strict rules that their employees are not allowed to save anything that is thrown away...

Thanks for sharing sustainability
I like this food

nice idea :)

I got some pizza some days back...it was called luxury specials. I tell you I could only eat just two slices out of the twelve. It was expensive but got wasted . Your pics are actually enticing @reko

it happens but it's nothing compared to what the stored o systematically...

Sure bro.

thanks for your great post,,,

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It really drives me crazy to see how much edible food is just dumped into trash while other people of the world would kill to have a portion of it. You are a person with great karma and for sure you have my follow <3

Food waste is a major problem in North America, I live in Canada. It is encouraging to see individuals reclaiming and reusing what gets tossed out. It is also encouraging to see grocery stores donating product that may otherwise be tossed to food programs. Together we can do much to reduce food waste.

Wow, since I see your publications I am impressed with the amount of food that people waste knowing that there are people who need those foods and more. Thank you for your post for bringing this information to people to reflect and instead of throwing this food to the people who need it. Hahaha, can not you send that to Venezuela? Excellent photos and beautiful dog