Two things made with one ingredient found in the trash

Multi-grain cereal with (dived) strawberries. It's funny, because I bought the cereal at the same store whose dumpster I found the strawberries.

Creamed TVP on (dived) toast. This is supposed to be like creamed tuna on toast, so I just made a cream sauce with flour, margarine and soymilk to pour over the TVP, which I added some kelp to to get a bit of a fishy flavor. I will now be putting cream sauce on everything.


I've moved in the last few months, and I haven't really gotten into the habit of dumpster diving around my new place, plus I've started working evenings, so I don't really have any energy to go out diving after work. I'm actually closer to the produce place that I used to frequent, so I'm going to try that again soon.

I have tried one dumpster that is only blocks away from my house, but the dumpsters are behind a large gate, and one time someone shut me in. There's no way to open the doors from inside, so if I had not been with someone else, that would have been pretty awful for me. Lesson: Always bring a phone or friend when diving in dumpsters behind gates.