What? No bananas? Seriously? What happened? Was there a monkey convention or something we didn’t hear about? It’s been ages since we haven’t had at least 10 pounds of bananas in the free produce boxes Mr. Produce Guy sets aside for us each week.

Shriveled mangos, soft grapes and super soft apples. Perfect for chickens, not so great for humans.

The asparagus was a wee bit past it’s prime. So we tossed it onto the compost heap.

Even though this lettuce was perfectly fine to eat, we gave it to the chickens. They LOVE their greens and when it comes down to it, we can really only eat so much lettuce ourselves. 

What we kept for ourselves this week:

• 2 large fruit Bowls {retail $9.99}
• 2 head of iceberg lettuce
• 2 apples
• 1 mango
• 1 avocado

Not a bad deal if you ask me. 🙂 What do you think?

~Mavis

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Well there was a heck of a lot of variety this week in the reclaimed food boxes we picked up from Mr. Produce Guy. Lot’s of melons, lettuce and miscellany for the chickens, and plenty of good stuff for us.

Bananas. I don’t think a week has gone by in the last few months where there hasn’t been a boatload of rips bananas waiting for us. It’s a good thing we like making smoothies and baking banana bread around here. 😉

And lemons? Heck ya I’ll take them. I have a lemon cookie recipe I’ve been wanting to try.

Here’s what I ended up keeping for my family this week. Do you see all those apples and oranges? Guess who’s making an apple pie for Thanksgiving? And cinnamon apple chips are on the menu this week too.

So much fruit, so little time. 🙂

Have you tried asking your local grocer for their “expired” fruits and vegetables yet?

Mavis wants to know.

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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?

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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.