Rescuing Christmas cakes & FOOD from CONTAINERS! :)

Simple math:

Christmas = more cakes in shops = more cakes not being bought = more cakes being thrown into the trash bins on Saturday = more cakes for Martin on Sunday

Hah, I don't even know what to write now. It just summarizes the whole post :D Some of you might know that I'm a passionate trashdiver AKA I love to eat food from containers. It's not about money. It's about fun and some general approach to life I'd say :)

Battle plan

Christmas time = trashdivers' paradise

We all do it. Even I do. Christmas is the time when buying more than we need is not frowned upon that much. At the end of the day - "It's christmas..". That means huuuge increase on the buyers side and therefore huuuge increase on the orders of supermarkets. I'm not sure if the ration of sold/thrown out changes, but the absolute amount of food being thrown into trash is deffinitely at the all year's high in December! (AYH might be a new trading term btw :D)

12 subzero ain't stopping us! Bikes & containers all day every day!

Innsbruck has been freeeeezing last couple of days. We even had 5 minutes longer warmup on Wednesday wrestling practice just to be sure we're warm enough haha :D No joke tho, the trainer really told us to have a longer one :D Back to the topic tho...Even -12 degrees didn't stop 2 of the best trashdrivers in the town from getting what they deserve!

"I'll take the bags, don't worry" - my false promises :D

That was my answer when Nacho asked about the bags to not make our backpacks messy. Of course I've forgotten the second I told him I'll take some. So we had to improvise :) Opening paper container offered us some nice porfolio of "bags" :D

^{Trashdiver's six-pack :D}

While Nacho was hunting for sweet stuff, I tried to get some veggies or fruits. There wasn't that many of those but I've found some at the end :)

This is what separates championship level trashdivers from journeymen

You open the container and see this. What do you do? Probably feel disgusted and close it ASAP. But what the best of the best see, is the opportunity and they (we) jump on it :)

There's sooo much good stuff hidden there!

I told you! ;) Strawberry creat 500g cake. Price - 8$. Still edible for 2 next days (+ probably next couple of days on your own risk :D I'd take it tho!)

Plus there was many many maaany more. We didn't even take 50% of what was in there. No need to as we won't eat it anyway. On our way home, we even dropped off some cakes and baguettes at homeless shelter. Hope the rest of the trashdive crew wasn't lazy on this cold evening and rescued the rest!

Message to all of you!

I know these were the containers of a supermarket. But the problem is, even regular families throw out soo much food during Christmas. Don't do that. There are many homeless shelters around in your city. Just bring the food over there. It's easy, convenient and makes you feel better about yourself :) That's also what we've done on our way home. Then, once you feel good about yourself, you can enjoy the cake like we did :)) And it doesn't even have to be from the container :D

Fruits of our labor

Oh yeah, Christmas is here and sugar dosage needs to be ramped up to avoid the shock on 24th :D I've started to work on it :) What would you choose - strawberry cake or bleuberry cake with poppy seeds? Or oats, berries and joghurt maybe?

Or maybe you already had enough of sweet stuff and want the "Kaese knoedel" soup ?:) Containers offer wide variety of stuff :D You can see these "Knoedels" on the upper photo. Those were couple of days after expiry tho :D But expiry date is overrated anyway :D