#FreeganFebruary - the season of toast 🥖🍞 these are some of my #freegan toast meals so far.. there have been many! Did you know that bread is one of the most thrown out foods in the world? One of the reasons is that shops will proudly tell you that the bread is all baked fresh that day... Which inherently means that anything left at the end of the day can't be sold. When I was #dumpsterdiving more often there was always a full bag of bread in every bin. Consistently. Shops need to find a way to manage stocks to make sure there isn't this huge amount of waste. We also need to find better ways to deal with all the waste bread than just dumping it into (hopefully) compost or (realistically, often) landfill. Do you know any shops that sell yesterday's bread? What recipes do you use #stalebread in? #lessfoodwaste #foodwaste #zerowasteliving #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoslDWrshA7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#FreeganFebruary continues! I've had so many delicious free meals made of food diverted from waste streams 😊 plenty of protein - frozen so it keeps past its use by date - and veggies - stored properly so they are good for weeks past their best before dates. Storing food properly is one of the biggest things you can do to reduce food waste once food enters your house. The freezer is your best friend, and a quick Google will tell you how best to store any veggies and fruit. 😃 What are your favourite food storage hacks? #lovefoodhatewaste #freeganism #freefood #zerowastedublin #zerowasteliving #zerowasteireland #freegan #foodwaste #nofoodwaste (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co67798MO_1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#FreeganFebruary - the time of year when I evolve into my most raccoon-like form! For the month of February I'll be eating only #rescuedfood to raise awareness about just how much food is wasted every single day. If love to know what you are interested in seeing! Pop to my story and left me know 😊 #Freegan #freecycledublin #freeganism #freefood #lovefoodhatewaste #zerofoodwaste #belliesnotbins #feedbelliesnotbins #nofoodwaste #sustainableliving #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGbB1hqZr4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Look at all this amazing rescued food! I went dumpster diving tonight and rescued a LOAD OF FOOD that is still in perfect condition! If anyone in Dublin needs some food in the next few days - let me know! I plan to go out a lot this week in preparation for a TV piece I'm working on. ☺️ It's ridiculous how much food is wasted every day. We need to be fighting the system that puts food into bins instead of bellies. #dumpsterdiving #dumpsterdivinghaul #freegan #freeganfebruary #belliesnotbins #foodwaste #zerofoodwaste #zerowastegoals #zerowaste #lesswaste #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland #zerowasteirl #foodrescue (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVbHv9es_it/?utm_medium=tumblr

Jelly is an underrated food. This is a bridge I will die on. 🍪 This jelly-cookie combo gave me extreme energy through an hour and a half long workout, plus a 5km cycle to collect more tasty @olio.app food! The jelly is #vegan too, which is super exciting because most jelly has animal feet in it. Day 15 of #FreeganFebruary was delicious and I can't believe we are past the halfway mark! #whatieatinaday - 🍊 Coffee, orange, tea, yogurt shots, banana and peanut butter smoothie 🍵 Veggie soup from @olio.app veggies 🍪 Cookie and jelly snack 🥖 More soup with baguette and scallions (aka spring onions aka green onions) 🍫 Chocolate slice for desert This is the first time I've had the same meal twice in a day so far! Usually that's pretty common for me, because I like the simplicity of batch cooking and eating #leftovers. I've been trying to get creative to demonstrate just how much food I'm getting, but today I felt a bit lazy. 😝 (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaA-f9htF-t/?utm_medium=tumblr

#FreeganFebruary day 4! Another delicious pile of food! I'm so spoiled for choice on fresh fruit and veggies - because once they get put in a bag they are given a "best before" date and are removed from the shelves as soon as that date passes regardless of whether the produce still looks yummy and fresh. 🤦‍♀️ 🍇 Breakfast was #skyr with grapes and oranges and a @olio.app pastry 🥖 Lunch was green lentil and spinach stew with leftover charred cabbage and toasted baguette ☕ I had a #snack of coffee with @baileysofficial milk thingy that i got from olio (!!!) Plus a couple of chocolates and a #vegan mince pie 🍛 Dinner was a @tescoirl ready meal that I got from olio - red Thai curry 🎂 And for desert I had my nephew's cake leftovers because he only likes the icing and I love cake! I can definitely see how households with kids end up with so much more waste! We are thrilled to see a few more people around the world are starting to get into #FreeganFebruary with us! If you are introducing some #dumpsterdiving or #freegan app foods into your diet please tag us! We love to see people getting engaged with #foodwaste and #foodrescue! #belliesnotbins #nofoodwaste #lovefoodhatewaste #oliofoodsharing #sustainableliving #ecofriendlyliving #zerowastedublin #zerowasteliving #zerofoodwaste #zerowasteireland (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZomk9bNZP0/?utm_medium=tumblr

I eat #freeganfood all the time, not just when I'm doing challenges like #FreeganFebruary 😁 this sexy sandwich was my lunch today and it was rescued from being thrown out. People often ask why I'm eating the free food instead of giving it to charity. That's a long answer (I cover some of it in my blog about @olio.app ) but one of the reasons is that many charities actually get more food than they can handle some days! This sandwich, for example, was a leftover school lunch, donated to a charity. It passed its use-by date at midnight that night - so it couldn't be given out any more - and was being thrown away when Adam grabbed a dozen of them. We shoved them in the freezer, and we've been making our way through them since then! Embrace free food and avoid food waste - wherever it comes from! What would you add to spice up a cheese sandwich? I added kimchi and kale to this one! #foodwaste #reducefoodwaste #lessfoodwaste #lovefoodhatewaste #toastedsandwich #cheesetoastie #lunch #zerowasteliving #zerowastedublin #zerofoodwaste #sustainableliving https://www.instagram.com/p/CbxfRhvt7Xb/?utm_medium=tumblr

I love potatoes. 🥔 For some reason, they are one of the most common fresh produce items that I find in dumpsters and on @olio.app 😮 usually it is because they are in plastic bags with an expiry date on them 🤦🏾‍♀️ so even if they are absolutely fine, they get chucked on that date. This is one of the many issues with plastic bagging fresh fruit and veggies. here are some of my recent #potato meals that I've made with my many #rescuedfood potatoes! 🥔 Stuffed baked potatoes 🥔 Spanish omelette/ frittata 🥔 Breakfast hash Also plenty of sides of mash, chips, and wedges. Next up - #gnocchi! #FreeganFebruary #freeganfood #foodwastesucks #foodwaste #lovefoodhatewaste #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland #dumpsterdivingdublin #dumpsterdivingireland #sustainablelifestyle (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaU4cZ0NJK2/?utm_medium=tumblr

Adam's birthday weekend was such great fun! I even managed to find him a #birthdaycake on @olio.app 😁 We went #alpacawalking, did VR Zombie fighting, and went to a great pub. We've seen so many awesome friends and had a blast having our first house guest in ages! I've still managed to stick to #FreeganFebruary for everything except booze. I decided that it's a bit rude to be in a bar for several hours only ordering water, plus I wanted to have a few drinks with friends. 🤷‍♀️ I don't feel bad about it. #freegan Food highlights of the weekend were - 🍕 Eating friends' leftover pizza crusts and dips for dinner at the pub - I actually couldn't eat them all! 🥔 A friend bringing over bags of my favourite crisps that the kids she works with refused to eat 🎂 Birthday cake There are only 8 days left of February and I am 100% confident that I will eat well each day. There is just so much food being thrown out or rehomed! (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaNtbQBtZAO/?utm_medium=tumblr

It's @adamhobaoill's birthday! I managed to find all the ingredients for his favourite meal on @olio.app - creamy mushroom pasta with fresh chillies! It was a really cool coincidence that all the ingredients happened to pop up in two days, so I made a yummy birthday dinner for him! Full disclaimer - I actually forgot the cream at home when taking all the ingredients over to where he was dog sitting, so he bought replacement cream and I used it. The cream I got from olio is in the freezer now to be used after the end of February as penance 🙈 #progressnotperfection #doyourbest #freeganfebruary #pastaislife #birthdayboy #sustainableliving (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaGEaOmNic4/?utm_medium=tumblr

My first #FreeganFebruary day in the office! I packed breakfast and snacks and a flask of coffee (our office only has a pod machine so I made my French press at home) and it all worked out perfectly! 🍊 Breakfast was fruit, coffee, and a scone 🍫 Snack was grapes and chocolate millionaire bites 🍝 Lunch was a mozzarella tomato pasta ready meal from @olio.app and some melon 🥔 Dinner was odds and ends from the fridge that were getting to the end of their lives, including the last of my veggie miso soup, some leek and potato soup, some garlic bread, and a very stale croissant I am slowly clearing out my freezer too, and using up things that were left here or collected from olio over the last few months. We will be moving in the next few months, so it is great to get all our pantry and freezer stocks more organised and the last ends of random things used up! (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZytYBYNHAj/?utm_medium=tumblr

Cake for breakfast 🎂 😍 plus fruit and black coffee ☕ that's basically a balanced meal, right? Yesterday's #FreeganFebruary #whatieatinaday - 🍈 Melon, orange, grapes, cake, coffee, and failed banana pancakes (a mushy disaster) for breakfast 🌭 Sausages and hot sauce for lunch (I cheated a bit - the hot sauce is bought but it's not my bf's cup of tea so I'm helping him eat it) 🎂 More cake as a snack 🥗 Veggie miso soup with kimchi for dinner - soups are a great option for using all the little bits of floppy veggies from the back of the fridge! #slightlymoresustainable #foodsharing #savetheplanet #Community #freeganfebruary22 #oliofoodwaste #oliofoodwastehero #freeganfebruary #freeganizm #freeganfood #freeganbreakfast #freeganism #vegetarian #eatresponsibly #veggies #eatgoodfeelgood (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZrKLQhNL6c/?utm_medium=tumblr

I ate someone's leftovers for dinner 😱 and they were delicious! #FreeganFebruary day 3 - here is #whatiatetoday 🥑 Avocado toast (!!!) With dumpster dives avo and chillies, fruit, and coffee. I didn't actually end up eating the skyr so I'll have that tomorrow. 🥖 Green lentil and veggie stew with baguette - most of the ingredients were from @olio.app. I added some spring onion from my garden that were grown from the scrap ends, and some parsley that I grew from #freecycle seeds! 🍔 And the shocking one - the scraps left on my partner's mums plate after their dinner tonight! They went out to a restaurant and I arrived after they finished eating. I had a meal planned for when I got home, but since all these bits weren't going to be eaten I jumped in and gobbled them up! I had about half a hamburger and some chips, as well as some carrots. Tasty! There is so so much food waste at every level of the food chain, including restaurants! They want to make sure we don't complain about still being hungry so they make extra food just in case. There's also no option to choose how hungry you are and change your portion size. Maybe this is something restaurants should consider introducing? #belliesnotbins #foodwaste #zerofoodwaste #freegan #freeganism #olio #freefood #zerowastegoals #zerowaste #lesswaste #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland #zerowasteirl #foodrescue (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZiEE2KNIcA/?utm_medium=tumblr

Tune in to @newstalkfm this afternoon to hear us talking about #FreeganFebruary and food waste! We are thrilled to be sharing information about #FoodWaste and bringing attention to how and where it is happening. 😁 Thanks to @henrymckean and @tryingtobegreensince2016 for your work on this! And a shout-out to @olio.app for all the yummy food 💪 (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhJK87NEsf/?utm_medium=tumblr

#FreeganFebruary meal shots! #whatieatinaday changes based on what pops up on the #freegan apps and olio and dumpster dives. Today I ate: 🍌 Banana, almond croissant from @olio.app, with coffee with soya milk that I tried to make from beans ... It was gross. 🍔 Veggie sandwich with cheese and pesto and an orange 🥑 Veggie and lentil "Bolognese" open sandwich with smashed avocado (#dumpsterdiving win) and charred cabbage 🍈 Melon and orange juice for desert! Again it was so easy to make three meals today that were delicious and healthy from fully rescued food. I even have plenty of leftovers! This is your reminder to check your fridge and plan some meals around using up everything in there! Then call your local politicians and ask them to take action against systematic food waste. ❤️💅 #belliesnotbins #foodwaste #zerofoodwaste #zerowastegoals #zerowaste #lesswaste #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland #zerowasteirl #foodrescue #FoodWasteHeroes #dumpsterdivinghaul #lovefoodhatewaste (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZfel_1tpvi/?utm_medium=tumblr

#FreeganFebruary day 1 - the 100% rescued food that I ate today was: ☕ Coffee, banana, scone, spread, and grapes for breakfast and snacks. 🥬 A big spinach salad with seeds, cucumber and kimchi, with chicken wings for lunch. (I'm eating meat for this challenge, normally I'm vegetarian, but I wanted to show how much meat is thrown out too!) 🍌 A banana and some vitamin drink as a post-workout snack. 🍠 Sweet potatoes with more salad and sardines for dinner. This is far too easy so far, which just goes to show how much food would otherwise be wasted! I've also prepped a bunch of food to make sure it lasts as long as possible - like peeling and freezing bananas I got on @olio.app so I can make smoothies all month, and turning wilting basil and spinach into a pesto. I've also prepped some food that takes a while so it'll be more convenient to grab and go over the next few days. I soaked and cookex some #freecycled green lentils so they are ready to eat. I've also just made my first ever batch of #soymilk from soybeans that I got off Olio! Very excited to try that in my coffee tomorrow! #belliesnotbins #foodwaste #zerofoodwaste #zerowastegoals #zerowaste #lesswaste #zerowastedublin #zerowasteireland #zerowasteirl #foodrescue #freegan #freeganism (at Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZdA7GvNCGy/?utm_medium=tumblr