Finally, a produce success!

I'd say that it's about time that I found something good in this produce dumpster. I was about to give up hope, but I decided to make the trek up there one night last week anyway. (Sidenote: When I didn't have time to dive, and I actually had to buy produce, I came here a few times. It was tough paying for things that looked hardly better than what I'd found in their trash. Tough.)


Anyway, the payoff was good this time! It doesn't look like much, but I had a hard enough time carrying back those two watermelons. There were at least 10 watermelons in the dumpster, and I thought about taking three, but that would have been miserable to carry. Along with the watermelons, I got a cantaloupe and some apples. The cantaloupe was maybe a bit overripe, but still just as good as any I've bought in a store, but the watermelons, at least the one that I've eaten so far, were amazing; they're incredibly sweet and juicy, and I can see or taste nothing wrong with them. Why they were in the dumpster, I'll never know. Unfortunately, since I went the night before the dumpster was emptied, I expect that the others all went to waste and were never eaten. Poor watermelons.

Something a little more expected

I suppose this would be a more literal action of eating off the land, as the bushes that I picked these blackberries from were actually growing in the ground. I had my eye on them for a while; the bushes were in the yard of an abandoned house right across from mine. Thankfully I picked them when I did, because a few days later, the bushes were cut down, which was sad.


I got about two cups of berries, not much, but it was enough to make muffins with and have a lot left over for eating plain. I picked up a donut pan at a thrift shop a few months ago ($2!) and haven't had a chance to use it, so I figured, why not make donut shaped muffins? Unfortunately in my excitement to use my new pan, I forgot that I wanted to make lime-blackberry muffins, and totally forgot to add the lime, which I'm pretty sure would have been awesome. Not that these weren't awesome. I'm just saying.

Oh yeah, and then I dropped two of these on the ground where they became completely covered in dog hair, and I left one in the pot of my rice cooker, only to find it a few days later when I needed to make rice. Awesome.