Dumpster Diving Tips, Is It for You or Does it Disgust You?
Dumpster Diving Tips? This report was done in 2007, and nothing has changed. If I had seen it, I would have said I would NEVER do Dumpster Diving, but now I have changed my mind. Over the past few years, I have been moving towards a simpler life.
I have begun to notice a few things as I work, doing service calls around the New York City area, and seeing what looked like delicious food sitting out on the street in trash bags waiting for pickup.
I was always too embarrassed to investigate. Until one day I witnessed (I pre-conceived to be a bum) a person opening the bags. He was pointing out that there were delicious vegetables and packaged goods in those bags.
Even then, many people were too proud to investigate. Some spent money on the food truck a few yards away, while others just went without food. Today, my views have changed, and I now actively look for the possibility of delicious food being thrown away.
I have no problem investigating. My problem is I have drawn a line at Dumpster Diving Tips, and in NYC, the bags are out on the street. I seem to have turned my nose up at looking into a dumpster for the possibility of finding delicious food.
I guess some others would also like to pay top dollar for the food. LOL.
A few evenings ago, on my way back to New Jersey to catch the train, I stopped at a few food markets and witnessed a man looking through garbage bags on the street. I stopped to ask if there was anything good.
He looked at me as if I were making fun of him.
As I began to look through the bags, I also noticed a bag of meat in it. I looked in the bag expecting to see a rotting, festering mess, but to my surprise, I found a perfectly packaged Filet Mignon.
More than I could eat, and the only thing I could find wrong with it was that the sell-by date had passed. I live in New Jersey and would more likely encounter dumpsters rather than bags on the street.
I now ask myself whether dumpster diving is good for me. The filet Mignon was GREAT!
