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Each week, The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I head to our local market to collect boxes of discarded produce. All of the produce you see above was sitting on the grocers shelf less than an hour or two before we came to pick it up. The produce we bring home has either Read More >>
I sent The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird to fetch the free produce from the market this past week. When she walked through the front door with her loot she announced, “There were only 3 boxes.” She looked defeated. Here we are, living in high maintenance suburbia, without a want in the world, and Read More >>
This week was absolutely crazy in the reclaimed food department. ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. I was so caught up in trying to figure out how I was going to use/distribute 15 watermelon halves that I forgot to take a picture of everything we salvaged. In the end The Girl and I were able to save – 15 Read More >>
This past week I was able to pick up 4 boxes of fresh produce that was headed for the dumpster. After The Girl Who Thinks She’s a Bird and I sorted through all of the boxes, we ended up with yet another amazing haul of free fresh fruit and vegetables. Can anyone tell me how Read More >>
This past week was fairly decent. We were able to pick up a ton of free chicken scraps as well as reclaim a bit of fresh produce for ourselves. Because I don’t have a need for it, I no longer hold back any of the lettuce {which typically fills an entire box}for ourselves. Even though Read More >>
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