Reddit mentions of Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

Cool. Although I would like more supermarkets to sell their off/pull produce (I always figured that was how Rising Sun got much of their stock).

If you have the time, the Just Eat It: A food waste story documentary on Amazon is pretty entertaining. It got me fired up about finding a "gleaning" program. I guess blackberries along the sidewalk counts, kind of.

JUST DO IT! If U can find some smaller sized independent markets in UR area sans evil compactor, UR in business! They're the best, IMHO. Large chains are great too if they don't have compactors! I don't know UR work situation/schedule but if U can spare the time, spend a solid week just checking them out 2x daily. I'd say shortly, after opening and just after closing (to be sure UR getting the fresh stuff as cold as possible) Or if UR limited on time try Fridays and Mondays...

Nothing worse than coming out late and finding a box full of steaks, sausage, bacon and chicken that is obviously been there for hours and lukewarm to the touch, ALL IN DATE, but not worth the risk so U have to leave it :( Take it if U have dogs and cats, they can eat anything! I've never seen my animals take sick. Only when I've given them milk do they get the runs but that's a dairy intolerance thing!

Yes, the research, reconnaissance and general time expended on start-up leg work is a pain. After UR first week, and if U take good notes, when U do find great things, be it food or store merch, U'll start to see patterns emerge and it WILL PAY OFF!

Most stores are pretty consistent w/ their "churning" i.e. pulling the old stuff, Thurs pm or Fri am, when they get a new batch for the weekend, and then Sun or Mon am/pm when they pull the leftover weekend stuff for the fresh M-F stock! Once U get that figured out UR golden! Then U can go just a couple times a week, or just whenever U want a good steak or want to fill up UR deep freezer for a few months, take a break from the food hunt and concentrate on retail spots!

U can go a bit early & just wait for them so U can watch them actually come out with it! lol It really helps if U can find a newish grocery store, or higher end one, that hasn't grown complacent re quality or lazy w/ their rotation! 1st store I ever tried, yes they had meat, tons of it! But it was all bad, just gross, brown sour meat, sausage rolls w/ a use/freeze date an entire month old "puffed up" (anything sealed that's expanded like a balloon is a big sign that its bad emitting those gasses of spoilage) Everything was inside a bag with loose rotting meat & juices blech, toxic soup! They're was one box of freshly pulled brats, hot dogs, bacon lunch meat etc that looked fine but because of the general condition of the other stuff, I left it! Stuff shouldn't be days beyond their sell by b4 they toss but days b4 it!

U want to find a good clean store, with high quality, and where they are very militant about their rotation! Funny because, a truck pulled up and stopped ahead of where we parked and waited and waited. When they saw me come back to get a grabber, they gunned their motor and screeched off, pissed! Never went back! They can have it!

I've been a bit compulsive and just knowing that it's there being wasted, strangely bothers me! I go ahead and take it anyways sometimes just so I can share it w/ friends & relatives so they can save $$$ and fill their freezers up for the summer too! I have just about reached maximum capacity (now pulling old bakery to make room) and it pains me to leave it all behind! I'll still take luke-warm meat (when I'm on a produce run) ground beef, steaks, chicken for the animals, keep it in a couple coolers on ice and feed them from it daily! It really reduces the amount of processed kibble UR animals eat. It's much healthier to feed them a "raw" diet of meats plus ur saving a ton of money in the process! My neighbors are floored when I give them a styro cooler packed w/ $300 worth of steaks, pork chops and chicken on ice for their dogs! A few have sheepishly asked if it was ok for them to eat? lol I said prolly not this batch BUT if U want some safe-for human consumption just answer my text and be around at 8:30 am or 11:00 pm because I can't store it over night or all day! I could leave it on ice ALL DAY/NIGHT but that would put U at risk for food poisoning!

So now I text them and drop by w/ a couple coolers full of meat (expecting just to drop it off on their porch) but NO somebody is always there to receive it day or night! (if someone offered to deliver $500+ worth of meat to me weekly I'd be up too lol)

They're always very appreciative and excited to go see what's in that night! Most have offered to pay me something but I was like noo way, but finally relented and said $10 would be fine for the month (just to cover ice) which I take, because $2 per 20 lb bag of ice can add up quickly w/ multiple people! Plus I think it makes them feel better like they're not getting something for nothing (people are weird that way)

I imagine my block is going to be rather fragrant all summer long, with the smell of barbecued meat! lol I feel good because I'm doing a good thing and it takes me minutes when I'm going to be out anyways, it's not like I am going out of my way or making special trips! Many are unemployed, or self-employed w/ spotty seasonal work (hunting guides, landscaping, or simply been laid off) Some have large households or herds of hungry kids (who I am already keeping in snacks, candy and beverages lol) and multiple families squeezed together (the telltale 5 cars at one house)

Plus, now when I go out of town I know my neighbors and don't worry because they notice when I'm gone and keep an eye on my place! It's a win/win quid pro quo feel good type of thing! I just think of what most families can do with that extra $300-$500 that they now don't have to waste on junk food, drinks and meat in their monthly grocery bill!

We've started keeping a Sparklett's water jug and stuffing it w/ our monthly food budget just to see what we might end up with at the end of the year! Not including what I hope to make now that I am finally going to get around to listing merch and other sellable items I've accumulated in just the short, almost 3 months, since I've embarked on this new little hobby of ours!

It's nearly empty now because we just raided it to pay the AC guy who replaced our central cooling unit last week $2,500 :) We've been putting if off since the old one died early last summer and have been making do with 2 window units! Now I can pull them and sell them on CL for maybe $50-$75 each I dunno whatever I can get for them they were $550 for both! I don't want to store them and this time I was smart and tacked on the extended 10 year warranty! lol

Srsly, just go and check things out! I never thought about grocery stores either until I watched Just East It and Dive. But they are amazing! If Ur not squeamish about eating "dived" food! I got over that REAL fast, the 1st month, after seeing we'd saved nearly $900!!! That included the $300 "going out to eat" money so it becomes really hard to justify going out for a steak dinner, when U have a stack of prime NY Strips just sitting there at home!

DIVE Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HlFP-PMW6E
Movie: http://www.thedaretube.com/tv/watch/dive-2010


JUST EAT IT Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPmkFW5gg0
Amazon Prime: http://www.amazon.com/Just-Eat-Food-Waste-Story/dp/B016W3SEKQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461894104&sr=8-1&keywords=Just+Eat+it

Or if U don't have Amazon:
http://putlocker.is/watch-just-eat-it-a-food-waste-story-online-free-putlocker.html