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Apr. 13th, 2023 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI have posted previously about the existence of truck wreck food in my life.
This is not gross food. This is 100% nice, completely edible, looks JUST LIKE grocery produce except it is free and in quantity. I live near several interstates and I know people who know a guy and sometimes it happens that there is truck wreck food come into my life like manna from heaven. This is one of those times, and a particularly nice one of those times because I made out like an effing bandit. It's not as good as a truck wreck of avocados or pineapple, but it's pretty damn good for truck wreck food. (I would eat pineapple until it dissolved my mouth, avocados until I literally could not swallow another bite.)
This time I got... eleven pounds of fresh asparagus!!! in bundles, a box of six smallish containers of fresh pomegranate arils, ready-to-eat, three bundles of organic broccoli crowns, three heads of cauliflower (small), five bundles of very pretty spring onions, a packet of radishes. There was also celery (I just bought some yesterday) and parsnips (I don't eat) and turnips (I don't eat) and big onions (Just bought a five lb bag of same). Now, I would not pay four dollars for a cup of pomegranate seeds but I will for sure eat them if they're free. Six cups by four dollars is $24. Cauliflower is probably $3 a head, so nine dollars there and nine more for the broccoli. $18 there. Asparagus is about five bucks a pound right now, so $55 there. I think this is literally like a hundred bucks (or a bit more) in free fresh vegetables and fruit. I kind of limit myself to what I will actually be able to use and/or freeze before it goes off, which is why this is what I took.
Not bad for a random Thursday.
This is not gross food. This is 100% nice, completely edible, looks JUST LIKE grocery produce except it is free and in quantity. I live near several interstates and I know people who know a guy and sometimes it happens that there is truck wreck food come into my life like manna from heaven. This is one of those times, and a particularly nice one of those times because I made out like an effing bandit. It's not as good as a truck wreck of avocados or pineapple, but it's pretty damn good for truck wreck food. (I would eat pineapple until it dissolved my mouth, avocados until I literally could not swallow another bite.)
This time I got... eleven pounds of fresh asparagus!!! in bundles, a box of six smallish containers of fresh pomegranate arils, ready-to-eat, three bundles of organic broccoli crowns, three heads of cauliflower (small), five bundles of very pretty spring onions, a packet of radishes. There was also celery (I just bought some yesterday) and parsnips (I don't eat) and turnips (I don't eat) and big onions (Just bought a five lb bag of same). Now, I would not pay four dollars for a cup of pomegranate seeds but I will for sure eat them if they're free. Six cups by four dollars is $24. Cauliflower is probably $3 a head, so nine dollars there and nine more for the broccoli. $18 there. Asparagus is about five bucks a pound right now, so $55 there. I think this is literally like a hundred bucks (or a bit more) in free fresh vegetables and fruit. I kind of limit myself to what I will actually be able to use and/or freeze before it goes off, which is why this is what I took.
Not bad for a random Thursday.
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Date: 2023-04-14 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-23 02:00 pm (UTC)Also, I have a hard time fathoming not eating parsnip. I would happily eat it all for you! Roasted parsnip in duck/goose fat is so good, and smooth puréed parsnip soup is just the best soup I know. Seconded by asparagus soup.
I need to go eat something now! <3