Ever made people stare?

tim_n

I popped into the local market yesterday to buy my ingredients for my soup. The guy was binning a load of stuff, and rather than ask for it I just popped back later!

I got about 5kg of bananas just entering their brown period!

Bananas will be going into a cake tonight as well as making banana beer = )

catznine

Hi Tim!

Well done on getting those bananas! :T They can also be frozen for cooking later. I bake banana bread and use bananas that I have frozen in their skins, just take out an hour before cooking to soften up, cut of the top and just gloosh them into the mixture. They can also be used for making smoothies.

Catz x

Queenie

:T :T :T Good for you Tim!

Have the courage to ask, it may prove useful in future if he gets to know you

leonie_2

Well done Tim, there's far too much waste in this world!

tim_n

It was more the market people looking at a guy in a custom tailored suit dumpster diving ;- )

Used to do it all the time at the local tech college - used to pull out PC's, government wipe their HD's and sell them on ebay for about £30 a time =D

Bananas are more squishy than PC's

tim_n

I'm going to go wombling this weekend at tescos too = D

leonie_2

Over Christmas, I went into Tesco late one evening and they had tons of cream (1 pint size) that was reduced to 39p a tub. I asked what they were going to do with it as they were taking it off the shelves. They replied they were going to dump it. I told them if they reduced it more I would buy it all, but they wouldnt so I just bought about eight cartons (for buttermaking) and the rest was thrown away..... such a waste of food

Queenie

tim_n wrote:

I'm going to go wombling this weekend at tescos too = D

Just a note of caution when "dumpster diving", especially at the rear of retail properties, people *can* and *have* been arrested for taking goods from supermarket/retail bins. At the very least it's trespass but it can also fall into the realms of the "Theft Act".

moggins

Tesco really does annoy me, they would rather waste good food than give it away to a good cause! When I worked there I could have cried when I saw what went into the compacter. They used to reduce stuff to 10p but even stopped doing that when one of the reduction staff cottoned on to the fact that there were two particular families who came in at the same time every night just to buy the reduced food.

It wasn't that they can't do this, no matter what anyone says, it was purely that management couldn't be bothered with the extra work this would cause,

tim_n

hehe queenie - but when you're dressed in a snappy suit no one questions anything you do! Just look at enron!

divadee

M&s give a lot of their waste (and i use that term loosely) to the salvation army!!! and good on them for doing it, i wish more companies would do this.

the salvation army then take it out in food parcels to the poor and also use the majority of it on their late night soup runs to the homeless