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Its an OLIO bread day - 3 loaves, 2 baguettes and 2 custard pies (for eating, not throwing).
The collector, Laura, offers lots of stuff on the night she collects it (from Tesco express shops) - but, if it has a use by date of that day, it can't be offered after midnight and has to be binned (OLIO rules). So sandwiches, salads, vegetables have a very short window for collection - usually between 10pm and 11.30pm. Bread is OK to be offered the following day.
This means that OLIO is not the great saviour of unsold food that we believe. They are still responsible for some food waste, food that most of us would use our judgement about. Would you really throw away a lettuce or bag of carrots because of its Use by date?? Crazy rules.

I guess they are protecting themselves Veggie?

Its an OLIO bread day - 3 loaves, 2 baguettes and 2 custard pies (for eating, not throwing).
The collector, Laura, offers lots of stuff on the night she collects it (from Tesco express shops) - but, if it has a use by date of that day, it can't be offered after midnight and has to be binned (OLIO rules). So sandwiches, salads, vegetables have a very short window for collection - usually between 10pm and 11.30pm. Bread is OK to be offered the following day.
This means that OLIO is not the great saviour of unsold food that we believe. They are still responsible for some food waste, food that most of us would use our judgement about. Would you really throw away a lettuce or bag of carrots because of its Use by date?? Crazy rules.

Yet again it is proven that common sense is an endangered species!!!

I guess they are protecting themselves Veggie?

Yes, they are Jay. We live in a crazy world where common sense about whether food is fit to eat has been thrown out the window by arbitrary dates stamped on packets. If the lettuces had been sold without packaging, nobody would have a clue what the "Use by" date was.!!

Today's IN was a wooden Lazy Susan (wonder who they named it after, poor girl?). I've put it under the laptop so that I can swivel it around when I change seating position or to show someone else the screen. Its easier than physically lifting the laptop.
I was also given a bag of clothes - said to be my size - by the same lady - a waterproof coat, Fleece jumper and a dressing gown. First thing I tried on was the fleece, a lovely winter weight, over-your-head thing. It looked a bit small but I wriggled into it and took shallow breaths as there wasn't enough room for deep breaths. I was horrified that it was so tight - supposed to be a 16 which should have been roomy but no way was it. I shoehorned it back over my head and vowed to lose weight. Then I spotted the size label - Small. Phew. I felt so much better that I ate some chocolate to celebrate.
It'll be going in the next OUT clothes bundle with the dressing gown. The coat's OK though.

I felt so much better that I ate some chocolate to celebrate.

haha that's exactly what I would've done too haha

Only collected food in the last couple of days - Bread including a Cheese bloomer (just one, not a pair), granola slices, a cabbage, Iceberg lettuce, pot of cress and a bag of watercress for the tadpoles.
Every little helps The Moneyless Chicken get through the year.

The Moneyless Chicken bagged 21 tins of out of date food today. About half of them were Heinz soups and baked beans, the rest were chickpeas, lentils, sweetcorn and one tin of my favourite - Spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce!!
Totally perplexed why people think that tinned food, a few months past its date, cannot be eaten. Their loss, my gain.

More Food INs today.
First I collected 2 punnets of grapes and some mixed veg (casserole type mix) and a couple of baguettes. When I arrived, I was shown a big bag full of baguettes and bread rolls - all destined for the bin tonight (from an OLIO collection). I took some and delivered them to my brother. Such a waste.
Then I heard of someone nearby with a defrosting freezer who wanted to give away some of the contents that they couldn't eat before they defrosted completely. I'll cook it all tonight and reheat some tomorrow - or give to the dogs. - Fish fingers, Chicken nuggets, Onion Rings, Potato waffles and Garlic bread.

Almost forgot, 4 pairs of hardly worn shoes. Hope they fit - I need some comfortable walking shoes for my collecting trips.

INs for the Moneyless Chicken's food store today = 3 loaves of sourdough bread, 2 sliced loaves, a white and a wholemeal one. Bread rolls, cinnamon whirls, 2 Almond somethings and some Kouign-amann, said to be "the fattiest pastry in Europe". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouign-amann
I had 4 of these and have eaten two already! They are oozing with ?butter and crunchy with sugar. Gorgeous.

Also had a heads-up for tomorrow for a Tesco collection. The OLIO rules state that food with that day's Use by Date cannot be given to anyone after that date - as I already knew. Meat is a particular problem - last week the collector had 10 packs of free range chicken breasts that she could not give away. She's also vegan so a huge cook-up was not very appealing. If she gets any this week, she'll freeze it and give it to me for the "dogs". I know someone who'll eat it.