To all you Garbage Pickers

mzkynd

What Qarol said, and add: food only belongs in the trash if it is no longer edible. If it is still perfectly edible, it should be preserved for later consumption, rather than discarded. To do otherwise is very wasteful, and a product of an over-indulged society.

I generally agree with this statement ( have jumped on my soapbox many a times about a indulgent society) however me and leftovers are not friends. I was raised a member of the clean plate club AND in a no waste household, It used to be near impossible for me to throw food out, and for some reason I always end up co-habiting with people who put the leftovers in the fridge and NEVER eat them, can't tell you how many meals of leftovers I have eaten and didn't like and/or want. I finally got where I was able to throw leftovers out after well let's just call it the great potato salad debacle of 2011 and leave it at that :=)

As to OP, I was on my own from 14 on, and a lot of those early years were spent hitchhiking/squatting etc. I have dumpster dived with the best but not in years and it was a means to end ( end my hunger) not out of a sense that good food was sitting in the trash.

squishycow7

oh gosh. that's me..

I mean, I haven't eaten something out of the trash, but I DO have to throw it away to physically rip myself from its delicious grasp :P

same with beverages (other than water... obviously). I can't just let a beer sit there. if it's open, I'm going to finish it! funny cause I feel like letting it get warm on the counter is a worse sin than pouring it down the drain. I feel like I'm wasting it if it sits there, but feel like I'm winning against it if I pour it out. lol

I ALWAYS save my leftovers initially. I don't like wasting things, but if it comes down to wasting or feeling powerless against my food, I will choose the trash can.

xMedullaOblongatax

I was once in a dark part of my life - no home, no money, looking for work - where I have done something like that =(

And that's all I care to elaborate on in this post.

Ha, to the 5 second rule - I like to say, "Fine. Throw your ramen into the toilet and if you pull it back out, it should still be good, right!?!" xD

TMcBooty

No I eat it before I think of throwing it away otherwise I wouldn't have it in my posession.

livinginwoods

Oh nooooooo

kabloozi

I agree with "gross" and ElEx man!!! Seinfeld--hahahaha...no no noGarbage picking...and don't buy it to throw away and then pick it out..no no no no

Umeboshi

I'm too OCD to even TOUCH the trash. My girlfriend has to take the trash out for me.
Honestly, even if I leave some food for like 10 minutes on a plate on the table or counter without eating it, my mind classifies it as trash and inedible. Same with soda. When I used to drink it there would be half full cans I'd have to dump out because it had been sitting 10 minutes without me drinking it so how did I know if a spider hadn't crawled in there or some such ridiculous thing.

Not judging you people who do eat food out of the trash though!

angiemb87

LOL at the junior mints. That's hilarious. Nobody's gonna judge you.

I've never eaten anything out of the trash...though I do have an embarrassing habit of touching gross things. I can't help it, it just happens to me. I'm always the one who leans up against a tree trunk that has bird poo on it, or rests my hands on a bus seat and ends up with fingers covered in someone else's ABC gum.

My niece ate a fish eye once. We grilled fish and cut the heads off, and her brother dared her to eat the eye. She took a kitchen knife, cut the eye out, put some lemon juice and salt on it and ate it. He gave her the ten bucks he'd just gotten for his birthday. Yep....that's my family.

chubiD

I think that some people didn't get the point? I've thrown away food (like cookies or things like that) in an attempt to stop binging. Yes, I do need to make sure they're covered in stinky disgusting stuff or I may eat them anyways