Last night Leifsdad brought home an apple box full of canned goods, salad dressings, single-serving microwave snacks, jars of olives. Retail value somewhere around $60 or so. He was taking a break out back of the nursing home that he cooks for and happened to notice that the dumpster was full of food! Apparently there was a least three times what Leifsdad brought home. The only thing we can think of, is that one of the residents must have died and the person cleaning out the apartment didn’t want to mess with giving the food away. That still seems strange to me, as most of my experience working in nursing homes tells me that the people who live there HATE to waste food.
er, is it just me, or is taking food out of a dumpster potentially bad for one’s health? I mean, you don’t know WHY that food was thrown out, right? Maybe it was like you say - someone just not wanting to deal with the extra food. But maybe the food had been exposed to something potentially dangerous.
I guess I can’t think of anything that would damage canned goods, but anything less than canned goods I’d be wary of. Scary, IMO.
Yes, perfectly good food. He left the boxes of cake mix, rice, noodles, tuna helper, cereal and the like as boxes absorb liquid, but the cans and plastic bottles that were unopened are still useable. Such a shame.