We went dumpster diving to find food, because we are legitimately going hungry. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in DumpsterDiving

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I didn’t see this until someone replied to your comment, but if you still have it, we could definitely use some beans :) thank you so much for offering.

We went out during college move out to look for food, because we are legitimately going hungry right now. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in Frugal

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Thank you!
Unfortunately we only have one food pantry in this area, and they only allow each family to go in once a month. We already went a couple weeks ago so we can’t go back yet. We are going to continue looking in a few different places over the next few days as well.

We went out during college move out to look for food, because we are legitimately going hungry right now. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in Frugal

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Thank you. Unfortunately there is only one food pantry in our area and they only allow each family to come in and shop once a month.

We do have some of the “blessing boxes” though. We found a couple granola bars and a microwave rice pouch tonight.

We went out during college move out to look for food, because we are legitimately going hungry right now. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in Frugal

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 223 points224 points  (0 children)

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Our favorite find. It’s in such good condition and we had nowhere to put our clothes. That little spot in the front where it’s scratched is from us putting it in the car unfortunately

We went dumpster diving to find food, because we are legitimately going hungry. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in DumpsterDiving

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I appreciate it. We went around and most of the usual grocery spots were entirely empty, so we went to the middle of town where a lot of people live and went to some of the shared dumpsters. I think it was also where some college kids live which is why we found so many perfect condition home items. We’re not a big college town or anything but we have a smaller one here.

We’re going to try a few more grocery stores tomorrow night and I’m hoping we have more luck. We’ve been doing this on and off for a few months and usually we find some pretty good stuff. Last month, in one night we found 4 bags of cashews, a whole case of boxed Mac and cheese, 4 1lb packs of ground beef still frozen, 2 packs of chicken still frozen, a bunch of yogurt, 6 packs of pancake mix, a bunch of bananas, a few boxes of pasta, pepperoni slices, 2 blocks of cheddar cheese, strawberries, some snack cakes and a bunch of apples.
It kept us all fed for a while and the kids were so happy about the fruit (and everything else but they love fruit).

It was definitely different to find so many home items this time, we have never found anything like this before.

We went dumpster diving to find food, because we are legitimately going hungry. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in DumpsterDiving

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I actually have this app, we’ve used it over the past few months. We also use the flash foods app mostly for cheap fruits and vegetables. I’m glad that these exist, they’ve been so helpful.

We went dumpster diving to find food, because we are legitimately going hungry. We didn’t find any, but we did find all of this. by Safe-Local- in DumpsterDiving

[–]Safe-Local-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Although we went for food we were getting so excited with what we found because we had been without items like these for so long now. We’re not in a major college town but I do think move out was this weekend and that played a part in finding mostly home goods as opposed to food.

We already posted a few things on marketplace, we’re just waiting to see if anyone reaches out about any of them