Woman finds her Christmas dinner food in bins - including meat and cheese
A woman has admitted she will be bringing food found in bins to her family Christmas dinner - as she's been eating from the trash for the past three years.
The dumpster diver even grabs meat from the garbage, and this year she will be providing her family with food she's found in her food gathering missions.
Because of her frugal eating habits, Sofie Juel Andersen spends just £70 a month on groceries as the majority of her meals come from the bins. She often will share the dishes with friends and family at dinners and social events.
She will only spend £70 on shop bought groceries as she gets most food from bins (Sofie Juel Andersen / SWNS)
Sofie will be bringing food from bins to her family Christmas dinner (Sofie Juel Andersen / SWNS)The 29-year-old stands firmly against food waste and claimed her family and friends are supportive of it. Sofie has salvaged fresh produce, meat, cheese and other packaged snacks from supermarket bins, which she claimed have "designated dumpsters" for different types of food.
Christmas is no different, and the restaurant manager will contribute to her family dinner with a winter salad, made from greens from a shop bin, as well pickled red cabbage which she found in a restaurant skip - and all her family ask is that "it's clean".
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"My entire family knows I dumpster dive - my mum says it's not an issue. I'll be bringing a winter salad and pickled red cabbage to Christmas. There's no need for me to go out and buy stuff - my family support my fight against food waste," Sofie, from Denmark shared.
She added: "I'm seeing a lot of festive foods being thrown out by the supermarkets - you can usually tell by the number of dessert ingredients, cabbages and meats in the dumpsters."
Savvy with her food finds, Sofie has managed to find enough food to feed her large extended family of 20, and will be serving up cheese, nuts, fruits and pre-made salads she has scavenged from different bins. "The other day I found a kilo of cashew nuts. I'll definitely be adding those to the dish. I found a lot of cheese - shredded cheese and parmesan, which won't go bad until the New Year and I've got some apples, which will go really great with the cabbage I found."
She has become a pro at spotting food, and said she can tell when supermarkets start to get rid of Christmas food judging by the amount of flour, butter, duck and pork which gets thrown away - and she will jump to retrieve the excess items.
Even when pre-made salads look wilted, she will just take the salad cream and claimed she has "hundreds" of packets. Sofie added: "Supermarkets often have a price war around this time of year, and butter and flour end up being really cheap.
"They ordered so many last year, they had a ton of surplus stock and threw a lot out. You'll always find a lot of oranges and clementines, as they're usually in season. It's the same with kale and cabbage - which is why I'm deciding to bring a winter salad along to Christmas dinner."
Despite her food contribution to the family coming from bins, Sofie stressed that her family have never had an issue with it. "My mum came to me and said, 'We're doing a big family dinner - please make sure it's clean', but I'd never bring anything dirty or expired, I always make sure I can actually eat the food before I bring it home. In the New Year, I'll be getting together with my friends who dive and putting on a massive dinner party, made with food from dumpsters only."
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