A woman has taken social media by storm after sharing the staggering amount of food she managed to salvage by going dumpster diving outside grocery stores.
The woman, who goes by @dumpsterdivingfreegan on TikTok, uses her platform to show her 346,000 followers that grocery stores regularly throw away large quantities of food that she says is perfectly fine to eat.
Not wanting to waste the food, the Dumpster Diving Freegan takes some of it for herself and donates the rest to local food banks.
In one of her posts on the app, which has since racked up over three million views, the content creator shows her followers the large quantities of edible goods that she has found in a Whole Foods dumpster.
Check it out below:She managed to get her hands on organic chicken and beef, fruit, vegetables, bottles of juice, and a $65.52 turkey, which she showed her followers as part of her dumpster diving food haul.
The Dumpster Diving Freegan says in the video: "Last night I found enough meat to feed an entire community. It was 33 degrees Fahrenheit outside so everything here was still super cold and had been recently tossed.
"Everything had been thrown out on or before its best by date and as we know, best-by dates are not hard rules and everything is still good to consume."
She adds: "I’ve never seen any discount stickers on any of the items that Whole Foods has thrown out, and I left so much more behind."
Th TikToker goes on to clarify that "nothing featured in this video was recalled."
She also reveals that she has been able to live on thrown-out food for the best part of two years now and takes safety precautions when going dumpster diving.
The Dumpster Diving Freegan adds that she always informs those who eat her salvaged goodies where they came from and said she has never gotten sick from consuming anything she has retrieved from dumpsters.
She said: "My page is to bring awareness to the obscene waste in the US, I am not suggesting that people should be diving."
