This week when we picked up the “chicken scrap” boxes from Mr. Produce Guy, there were quite a few watermelons. And The Girl and I were VERY excited. We LOVE watermelon. And so do our pet chickens.
Back in April of 2012 when I asked our local produce guy if we could collect extra scraps for our chickens, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But now I do. Although the food is different every week, it’s still pretty exciting to see what we can salvage from the boxes of discarded produce.
If I had to guess, most people don’t want to bother with sorting through damaged fruits and vegetables to find a few gems. But we don’t mind.
After all, free food is free food, and not knowing what we are going to get each week, is just part of the adventure.
Life is good! 🙂
~Mavis
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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.
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William says
One place that I worked at would not give away any of the produce and some was still pretty good but the reason behind it was they were afraid of law suit if someone got sick or hurt….. So the racoon’s got em and I sneeked a few to some of the employee’s
Joy says
I hoped to get a few rotting fruits from a local grocery store to use in a biology lab exercise, but had to BUY them! They charged me regular price for the rotting things they’d already culled out of the displays. Can’t believe I paid for moldy strawberries! However, other groceries stores wouldn’t even give away their “bad” stuff, probably due to the reason William stated.