With the economy doing so stellar, it definitely makes living on your own quite difficult. While you’re expected to have a place to stay and clothes on your back…you’re not necessarily expected to be eating healthy. A friend of mine lives in Brooklyn and works 8-5 but lives off of cup-o-noodles, another friend lives in the Upper East side of Manhattan a-la Gossip Girl and on good days, eats a bag of spinach for lunch and dinner. With all the necessary living expenses continually occurring, what can someone do?
They can "Dumpster Dive!" This is pretty much as it sounds; you go to a dumpster, jump in, or “Dive” and find your food. The interesting thing about this is that the people that are “Dumpster Divers” aren’t always greatly in need. Metro NYC wrote an article highlighting a few individuals living and working in NYC that are trying to cut a few corners; they get all their food from dumpster diving, and we’re not talking about rotten food, but good, slightly damaged goods. A good friend of mine dumpster dives in
Trader Joes is notorious for dumping the best food in the nation, and not to mention all grocery stores do this because after all, “they’re running a business.” They could sell damaged stuff, but they don’t and they won’t.
Dumpster diving is illegal because the dumpsters are usually on private property, but there are many business that are “Dumpster friendly.”
When in doubt, DIVE!
And who would have thought that people can live quite healthy off of discarded dumpster food. I think…no, I know…we’re getting smarter!
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