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A big thanks to One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Em who sent me an article from the L.A. Times, with this description, “Mavis, I thought you’d be interested in this article on how a grocery store chain is using unsold produce.” Umm, yes, yes, I am interested. We’ve been collecting “unsold produce” for just over a Read More >>
It was another fantastic week gleaning from the free chicken scrap boxes. Lucy discovered she likes watermelon! There were so many strawberries to go through this week it was crazy! We made a few smoothies and ended up freezing the rest to use later in the year. If I remember correctly this is around the Read More >>
If there is one thing I’ve learned over the past year from picking up free chicken scraps at our local grocery store, it’s that you never know what, or how much produce you are going to go home with on any given week. We picked up 3 boxes of produce that was headed for the Read More >>
Mr. Produce Guy had 2 boxes of reclaimed produce waiting for us when we stopped by the local market this week. There was more lettuce than you could imagine along with grapes, pears and corn. Inspector Lucy learned she likes celery. As for the rest of the produce, well, we decided to sit this one Read More >>
This week there were only 2 boxes of free produce from our local grocery store. I just about fell over when I saw all the watermelon. I mean really, we can only eat so much. Has anyone ever tried freezing watermelon? Can it be done? If so I’m thinking a few chunks of watermelon might Read More >>
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