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 then, I would have said I would NEVER go Dumpster Diving, but now I have changed my mind. I have subconsciously been moving towards a simpler life in the past years.
As I work doing service calls around New York City, I have noticed a few things. One sees delicious food sitting out on the street in trash bags waiting for pick up.
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 pointed out that delicious vegetables and packaged goods were in those bags.
Even then, many people were too proud to investigate. Some spent money on the food truck a few yards away or 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 am unsure why, but I seem to have turned my nose up to look into a dumpster to find delicious food.
Some others would also like to pay top dollar for the food. LOL.
A few evenings ago, I went to a few food markets to catch the train back to New Jersey and witnessed a man looking through garbage bags on the streets. 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.
I had 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 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!
