This past week there were quite a few strawberries, melons and grapes to sort through. Unfortunately, the melons were a little past their prime to feed to my family but our flock of backyard chickens sure loved them. Out of the 3 boxes of produce scraps Mr. Produce Guy gave us, this is what we Read More >>

Wowie Zowie!  Take a look at all that free food! As you would imagine, summer is one of the best times of year to score free produce because there is such an abundance of food flowing into grocery stores. Before I could take my final picture, The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird snagged 2 Read More >>

Well it was another awesome possum week in the reclaimed food department. We were able to pick up 4 boxes for fruits and vegetables from Mr. Produce Guy. All of which was headed for the dumpster. Spotted bananas, heck yeah I’ll take those. I can turn them in to Banana Bread, Banana Fudgesicles, Banana Cake, Read More >>

This week we picked up four boxes of discard fruits and vegetables from Mr. Produce Guy. How do you eat your banana’s? Do you prefer them green? Totally yellow, or with a few spots? My grandfather would wait until a banana was practically black before he ate it. As a kid I thought it was Read More >>

Last week I hit the motherload of free produce. It was nuts! You can definitely tell when things start to pick up in the produce section and people start to buy more fruit. Although the free produce boxes from Mr. Produce Guy were overflowing again this week, the pickings were kind of slim when compared Read More >>