Our little "FREEGAN" adventure

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd share this with you. Last week, as I scrolled through our TiVo-ed Oprah shows, one title caught my attention, and I turned it on. It said "Life of Freegans" or something like that. Immediately I was captivated by the stories of the people featured. One lady, who gave up her six-figure job to live a better life, not drived by money and stress. Another couple was a 25-year old engineer and her husband who is a doctor from Nashville.

OK, so pretty much what they do is reduce the amount of money they spend by not buying what they don't need, and they pretty much go "dumpster-diving" to find food that's perfectly fine, it just has small imperfection. There is a research done on how much food, that's still good is wasted. Immediately we looked at each other with Johnny, and said that we were up for the adventure.

So, finally, tonight was the night. We went to a few places, but the dumpsters were locked, or had shoots where you couldn't get inside the dumpsters. So, we went to Wild Oats (also known as Whole Foods in other parts of the U.S.) And we hit a jackpot!!!! Now, keep in mind, that Wild Oats would have mostly organic food. Before we went, we prayed that God would bless our search, and He gave what's the best for us!!!

So, here is some things we found: beautiful flowers, whole box of fresh cranberries, about 10 different kinds of organic cereal, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, butternut squash, green beans, pasta, oatmeal, cookies, chips, nuts, juice, soymilk, oranges, onions, canned tomatoes, canned artichoke, bell peppers, packaged salad...... Every item is ORGANIC, it's NOT expired, most of the time what's wrong with it is that the packaging is dented or little bit damaged.

We're commited to use the money we save through this to pay off our debts and to be able to be more generous with our money where needed.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know, if you want to try this. By the way, we've been at the dumpster for a good while, and there was a security passing by all the time, but nobody talked to us or bothered us.

Talk to you soon.

Ika & Johnny