This Guy Spends $2.75 A Year On Food And Eats Like A King [View all]

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This Guy Spends $2.75 A Year On Food And Eats Like A King

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dumpster-diver-freegan-food-waste_us_577bd32ee4b0a629c1aac3d1


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Over the last two years, William Reid has spent just $5.50 on food.

Reid is a committed dumpster diver: He dredges unsold grub from supermarket dumpsters and collects food scraps wherever he finds them. And he feasts.

A graduate student in film and electronic media at American University in Washington, D.C., Reid forswore store-bought food in August 2014. Since then, he’s been munching on found meals of green vegetables, fruits, meat, eggs, milk and candy ― really, “anything you can imagine,” he said, adding that he’s never gotten sick from food he’s scavenged, nor has he ever lacked access to healthy meals.

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That Reid is able to easily find good food in supermarket dumpsters is evidence of just how widespread the country’s food waste problem is. Roughly 40 percent of all food in the U.S. goes uneaten, and yet one in seven American households doesn’t have a regular supply of good food.

While food is wasted at every step along the supply chain, nearly half of the country’s wasted food is lost at supermarkets and restaurants, creating a vast supply of uneaten food sitting in dumpsters and trash cans ― ripe for the taking by people who know how to find it.

I am absolutely fascinated by the concept of dumpster diving for groceries but the concept of rooting through a dumpster for edible products in hopes that I could find a decent meal kinda gives me the creeps. But what's worse is these grocery stores waste so much food when it could be donated to charity and help feed the millions of people who go hungry in this country. I wish we could create some sort of system that allows for grocery stores to donate this food so we can help solve hunger in this country.

Oh take the poll - would you do dumpster diving? Only time I was in a dumpster was to find my passport the night before I was to fly off to Canada and turns out it got tossed with a bag of garbage. NOT FUN!

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	I already dumpster dive for food
	3 (11%)
	I would consider it but only for certain foods
	5 (19%)
	No Way!
	16 (59%)
	Other
	3 (11%)
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