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Have you ever been so poor you ate food out of the garbage?

I have and did that quite a bit 2 years ago. I would take half eaten bags of chips out of the trash. A coworker threw a takeout box with uneaten takeout in it away. When nobody was looking I took it out of the trash and enjoyed the 2 steak tacos that were left.
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REMsleep · 41-45, F
No,
I've never eaten dumpster food only by the grace of God. I'm sorry that you had to do that especially at work where it could cause such a stigma. If this happens again pls try your local food bank.

Growing up we were food scarce but I didn't even know until I was a little older how bad that it was.
My mom was very prayerful and once I do remb that we went to the grocery store ( I didn't know that we didn't have any money)
We bought very little then we walked outside and right next to our car (like someone put it there) was a totally stacked full basket of groceries.
We waited. We looked around. It was late at night. We couldn't find anyone near so we put everything in our car and went home and ate for weeks from that food.