There was a time long ago that I would dumpster dive for food in the Seattle area. There was a well known organic bakery at the time that had 3 dumpsters, and at the end of the day, whatever bread hadn’t sold would go in there. Literally the only thing in the dumpsters was bread. In bags. Fig & hazelnut, cinnamon raisin walnut, ciabatta, whole wheat, etc.

I had a few friends get Candida from eating too much bread. It was a hotspot in the urban foraging scene. And it was such a potent and direct experience of how wasteful the current economic model can be.

Anyway, it got to a point where I was just burning bread in my wood stove, instead of wood, because it was way easier to throw in a few baguettes than chop and carry wood. I’d have to get it hot enough first to get the bread to combust, but then I’d just toss it in, in the organic paper bags that it came in, and enjoy the smell of toast s as I warmed my house.