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RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Veggie - 24-04-2023
Yes, Knotty, all FREE.
There's an app called OLIO - they've teamed up with various shops and local volunteers go to them at the end of the day to collect leftover food. The volunteers then offer it on OLIO to anyone who wants to collect it. I don't use it now because they've taken down the web app and upgraded the phone app. My phone is too old to handle the upgrade and I'm too old to care!However, the Sourdough bread collector messages me every week to ask if I want anything which is very kind.
I'm also in a FB Recycle group that covers my postcode area and a lot of surplus food is offered on that. For example, this morning I've collected 5 tins of beans, soup, rice pudding and fruit from one person, 5 boxes of herb teas, 2 bags of dhal and a bag of green lentils plus curry spices.
Anything I don't want, that is in date, I'll take to one of the local churches that has a free food market every month. That eases my conscience about taking things (usually fresh produce & bread) that would otherwise be wasted.
If you have a free weekend, have a look at my Moneyless Chicken thread https://gardenandgossip.org/showthread.php?tid=1388&highlight=Moneyless where I decided to spend as little as possible on food, clothing, toiletries, books etc and spend no more than £1 a day on food. Its surprisingly easy
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - SarrissUK - 24-04-2023
(24-04-2023, 01:05 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: In came two radiator beds for my boy Fitzroy and daughter’s boy, Hamilton.
Definitely a hit!
Oh wow FEW, what a gorgeous cat!!
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Farendwoman - 24-04-2023
He certainly is!
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Small chilli - 26-04-2023
Some more lobster macaroni.
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Farendwoman - 27-04-2023
My daughter’s boy (Hamilton) like his free radiator bed too!
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - JJB - 27-04-2023
He's like a miniature puma, another gorgeous boy
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Veggie - 28-04-2023
Just OUTs today - some lenses for digital cameras and mobile phones that I acquired with a load of other stuff and 3 big cardboard boxes for someone moving house. Every little helps.
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Veggie - 29-04-2023
Went to Church this morning - I was the last one to attend so not much left except lettuce, carrots and bread. They'd had a big donation of tinned food but I leave that for others. They were telling me that the doors open at 10.30 but people are queuing outside at 8.45, just so that they can have first dibs on whatever is there.
This afternoon, I collected a 3 year old Nectarine that had been in a pot - now bare-rooted! Not sure where it'll be planted at the moment but I'm sure I'll find somewhere to squeeze it in.
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - JJB - 30-04-2023
Out today was 2 x Red Robin windowsill tomatoes. In was a pair of jeans in exchange for a bit of mending/sewing I did for a neighbour.
RE: Freecycle and similar websites - Veggie - 30-04-2023
OUT today went a bag of kitchen utensils, cutlery and a wine rack for someone moving from a hostel into a flat.