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This morning I wanted to share with you some photos One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Melissa sent in last night. Here’s what she had to say… So far we have done very well with our reclaimed food and hopefully it continues. Thank you so much for writing your blog and I am so glad Read More >>
There were 5 boxes of free food waiting for The Girl and I when we went to the grocery store this week. About half of the watermelon and grapes were still edible. We scored a bunch of fresh mushrooms, cilantro, spinach and 1 green pepper. 3 ears of corn, bean sprouts, strawberries and blueberries. We Read More >>
Check out this AWESOME email I received from One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Lisa. ___________________________________________________________ Hi Mavis, I have been following your blog for over a year now and was amazed and a little jealous of the reclaimed food you were receiving. I never got up the nerve to try it myself, until the Read More >>
I’ve been meaning to write something about the recent articles on how Americans are throwing away over 40% of their food, but am still having a hard time figuring out what to say. So I decided to post the pictures of most of the edible food I’ve been able to reclaim on a weekly basis Read More >>
This past week I hit the jackpot in the reclaimed food department. Melons, lettuce, strawberries, corn and grapes. This whole idea of asking your local grocer for their chicken scraps isn’t a bad gig. Some weeks we make out like bandits, and some weeks the chickens get all the loot. What we obtain, and what Read More >>
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