Food Waste In America – Free Fruit, Yes Please!

This past week was a great one in the free food department.

I know I’ve said it a hundred million times, but isn’t it amazing how much food gets thrown out by grocery stores each week? The picture you see above is just what one store tossed in about 3 hours. Imagine what a weeks worth of discarded produce would look like.

Our flock of backyard chickens were over the moon after I tossed an entire box of bok choy and cabbage leaves into the chicken run for them to munch on.

Our favorite thing this week was two bowls of granny smith apple slices. According to the date on the sticker, the apples were “expired” so the store could not sell them.

Umm, I’m not rocket scientist but they looked and tasted fine to me. 🙂

This weeks free food tally:

• 3 heads of Lettuce
• 1 bag of Romaine Hearts
• 1 tub Watermelon Chunks {The Girl ate the whole tub}
• 2 tubs of Granny Smith apples
• 6 Stuffed Mushrooms
• 15 Spotted Bananas
• 4 Apples, 1 Pomegranate and 1 Grapefruit.

Life is good! 🙂

~Mavis

Would you like to see what else we have brought home over the past year?

Head on over HERE to read all the past stories and to see all the pictures.

If you have just stumbled upon this series and are wondering how I got all this food for free, you’ll want to read this story first.