Freegans race to make the best meal out of dumpster pickings

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Jun 23rd 2008 @ 12:32PM

My younger sister has gone through a number of different food phases. During elementary school, she was a queen of junk food. As she got older, she started leaning more and more towards healthier foods, becoming a vegetarian and then a vegan. She was a vegan for a number of years, until her rock and roll lifestyle (she's a musician who is nearly always on the road) started to make that diet impossible. Quality vegan food wasn't always easy to find, and was often prohibitively expensive when she could find it. That was the point at which she started calling herself a freegan, stating that she'd eat just about anything, as long as it was free.

These days she's found a happy medium, eating poultry and fish along side her vegetables and grains, but no red meat or pork. However, she still embraces the freegan lifestyle, often going dumpster diving with friends in Austin. She would fit right in with the new internet show that is being produced in the UK. Called Ready, Steady, Skip (skip being the British word for dumpster), the show challenges two teams to dig through trash bins, looking for quality foods that have been discarded. They then have to go home and create full meals out of their finds. The team who produces the best eats wins the game.

Right now only the trailer is available, but the first full episode is scheduled to be available in July.

[via Treehugger]

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Filed Under: Television/Film, Food News
Tags: dumpster diving, DumpsterDiving, freegan, Ready Steady Skip, ReadySteadySkip, wasted food, WastedFood

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6-23-2008 @1:13PM Julie said... I watched a documentary on Dumpster Diving and could not believe the amount of food that gets thrown away.
More power to them, I was almost envious at the savings but have to admit that I am not sure if I could do this myself....maybe someday but I am not there yet. I am amazed that no one gets sick or maybe they do and that part was left out of the documentary.
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6-23-2008 @1:15PM Julie said... I watched a documentary on Dumpster Diving and could not believe the amount of food that gets thrown away.
More power to them, I was almost envious at the savings but have to admit that I am not sure if I could do this myself....maybe someday but I am not there yet. I am amazed that no one gets sick or maybe they do and that part was left out of the documentary.
http://noshtalgia.blogspot.com/
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