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I made a stew. Its contents:
A huge leek, red onion, white onion, garlic, celery, 3 small carrots, 2 tomatoes, hemp seed, sage, tons of lentils.

Two hours of simmering later, it was nom

I also attempted to make guacamole, but couldn't mash up the avocado, even after putting the whole lot in the microwave, so instead I ate warm tomato/shallot/avocado/lime/lemon mix on nachos.
*drool*

17 year old Bowmore...mmmm, yummy!!!

munching my way through about £40 worth of starbucks sandwiches and cakes which i liberated freegan-style from their bin about ten seco nds after they got chucked in it. all stil in date till today (so a couple of days in the fridge still) and full of such fillings as prawns, salmon, and roast chicken. i hate waste.#

not to mention washing it down with ice-cold cider bought with the £10 i just found.

Dig the freegan thing.

It's fcuking horrifying the amount of food gets thrown away. I think I read that up to 35% of food bought in the UK winds up in the bin.

markfiend wrote:Dig the freegan thing.

It's fcuking horrifying the amount of food gets thrown away. I think I read that up to 35% of food bought in the UK winds up in the bin.

i know. and what's worse bro, is when a supermarket realises that it's skips are providing a source of food for down-and-outs, homeless, the dispossessed, poverty-liners or -for whatever reason- plain hungry and skint, they'll happily deliberately ruin perfectly edible food with bleach, deturgents, etc. just so as no-one gets summat for nowt.
now, i've had shedloads of stuff out of the skips over the years (especially when i was a traveller) and i tell you now that despite being a "good thing to do", few people with actual money in their pockets will be arsed to rummage through a smelly hot bin.

SO WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM YOU CUNTS? STARVING CHILDREN GIVE YOU THE FUCKING HORN DOES IT???

fuck it mark-gimme five minutes with the people responsible for those sorts of decisions man....

humourous side of it being people like starbucks who having somehow twigged that their unsaleables were going missing (and let's face it it could have been foxes) they spent three weeks sneaking out and putting just that one rubbish bag in greggs skip! i know 'cause i watched them do it every week ( i wouldnt spend a fiver on one of their butties but sunday is fast becoming a starbucks by the sackful tradition)

Do they not have something like CityHarvest in your manor? Round my way they have trucks that pick up any food that's left over from the sammidge shops, caterers, and stuff and deliver it to hungry all over the city.
People who mightn't otherwise eat get some lovely scran, and the shops get a tax-break based on the value of the nosh that they would otherwise have thrown away but can now write off against tax as a charity donation - it's a winner all 'round. Really surprised that places in the UK haven't twigged to this - point them in the direction of CityHarvest's website and tell 'em to get weaving.

the official story from the supermarkets is that they are liable for any out-of-date stock that gets back into circulation after they've binned it.
but as the dates on food are always very much early -on-the-safe-side to start with, even out of date stuff is rarely off (sometimes meat in hot weather). vegetables don't go off -they are either rotten or edible, and some foods like cheese, yoghurts etc are "off" by definition when they are "fresh"..

at the end of the day shed-loads of food chucked is split packaging or unpopular lines being removed from the shelves to make room for better-selling lines...we found a tesco bin a couple of weeks ago where a store freezer must have gone down. there was literally thousands of pounds worth of frozen food which they hadn't even thought twice about dumping.

as i found out when i was technically homeless as a new-age traveller, and was making a living selling the big issue, people want to be seen to give to charity but are often reluctant to give direct to the needy.i was penniless and starving at one point this winter and saw a salvation army advert on tv encouraging people to donate money to give the homeless a good xmas. stangely enough there was no number to ring if you were down-and-out and actually needed the alms boasted of.

and i'd bet that wasted food from supermarkets is tax-deductable already -why draw attention to a surplus situation which would only give them more to do if it was recognised properly.

I can see the liability issue - the city has a Good Samaritan law that says so long as you donated it in good faith, believing it to be ok, then you're not liable if someone gets sick. If supermarkets were to donate through a reputable charitable group they could be fairly certain of it not getting back into circulation, rather getting into hungry tummies.
You'd need some legislation to protect the supermarkets on the liability side - after all, the intention is to encourage them to make this surplus available instead of binning it. You also need a will, and a decently-large volunteer staff to help collect the stuff from the supermarkets - Tescos isn't going to hire anyone to make this happen.
I'm amazed that the Big Issue Foundation, Princes Trust, or someone similar hasn't been working on this - it's a win all 'round: shops get the tax breaks, hungry people get fed, homeless/jobless people get something to do and training to boot, and all the businesses that donate cash to help set the thing up get to feel good about themselves and can stick "Socially Responsible Enterprise" stickers on the front of their annual reports.

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Today's guacamole was a success. Shame I ate most of the nachos when stoned yesterday.
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eastmidswhizzkid wrote:munching my way through about £40 worth of starbucks sandwiches and cakes which i liberated freegan-style from their bin about ten seconds after they got chucked in it. all stil in date till today (so a couple of days in the fridge still) and full of such fillings as prawns, salmon, and roast chicken. i hate waste.#

not to mention washing it down with ice-cold cider bought with the £10 i just found.

I'll pass on the cider but Starbucks sandwiches look so nice but are way expensive. Used to do dumpster-diving with my brother in the early 1980's but I'd be up for free sandwiches if I knew the right spot

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:...we found a tesco bin a couple of weeks ago where a store freezer must have gone down. there was literally thousands of pounds worth of frozen food which they hadn't even thought twice about dumping.

Don't know how it works in the industry in the UK, but I worked for a natural foods co-op here in Seattle (PCC) for a number of years. When refrigeration breaks down, they have insurance to cover the losses. I suspect that larger organisations would have something similar, and that said insurance might prohibit them from distributing it. (If it's ruined, people shouldn't be eating it - if it isn't ruined, the insurance shouldn't have to pay for it. I don't agree with this entirely, but I understand how it works...)

and i'd bet that wasted food from supermarkets is tax-deductable already -why draw attention to a surplus situation which would only give them more to do if it was recognised properly.

PCC would never want anything they thought was in any way 'bad' to be consumed, because their philosophy is all about the 'wholesomeness' of their foods (e.g. they tell you to store your cooking oil in the fridge ). On the other hand, they also make regular and substantial contributions of foodstuffs to food banks for the poor. The big market chains make a show of it at (Christian holidays, but the rest of the time...nada

Back on topic : Just had a big bowl of homemade jambalaya - Damn, I'm good!

ready brek

Since I'm at work, lots of coffee...

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:fuck it mark-gimme five minutes with the people responsible for those sorts of decisions man....

Another one for you:

A mate used to busk outside our local Co-op. I say used to; the management kept trying to move him on. One day he got jumped by a group of w@nkers, nicked his money and smashed his guitar while staff from the Co-op stood by and did fcuk-all.

Now obviously I'm not saying that the Co-op encouraged this, but you've got to wonder.

And this is the Co-op -- supposedly the most "right-on" supermarket brand!

Doner kebabs: Death wrapped in pitta bread
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27 ... ab_survey/

The Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS) coordinated a doner dragnet in which operatives from 76 councils across Blighty examined 494 post-pub pitta-wrapped pabula. If your heart can stand it, the shock results were: The average kebab contains 98 per cent of daily salt, nearly 1000 calories (half a woman’s daily food intake) and 148 per cent of daily saturated fat.

And that's just the average kebab.

...

Tests also showed that in 15 per cent of cases beef was found in the kebab, but not declared on the label. In fact, 35 per cent of the labels listed different meat species than that actually contained in the kebab. Alarmingly, six kebabs tested positive for pork when it had not been declared as an ingredient, of which two were claimed as Halal.

etc

nothing i couldn't have guessed, tbh, but still...

thank christ i've not touched one of those in ~10 years

20 years for me, and that was the one and only time

markfiend wrote:

eastmidswhizzkid wrote:fuck it mark-gimme five minutes with the people responsible for those sorts of decisions man....

Another one for you:

A mate used to busk outside our local Co-op. I say used to; the management kept trying to move him on. One day he got jumped by a group of w@nkers, nicked his money and smashed his guitar while staff from the Co-op stood by and did fcuk-all.

Now obviously I'm not saying that the Co-op encouraged this, but you've got to wonder.

And this is the Co-op -- supposedly the most "right-on" supermarket brand!

"right-on" would explain why their prices are twice those of other chains...

Never Mind The Bollocks, apparently...

Tonight's veg stew:

Diced shiitake mushrooms, celery, shallots, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, capers, mixed spice, coriander, basil, thyme, soy sauce, lemon juice, lime juice, lentils, black wild rice, two veg stock cubes.

Delicious. This may make up for my ridiculously poor nutrition every other day.

Mmmmmmm....moussaka. (Of course, I'll be eating it for a week or more )

Cold, black coffee. The breakfast of champions.