Bufflehead Cabin

1. Bring some containers in your trunk/backseat rubbermaid type stuff works best. You’ll need as many as possible even if they aren’t very big (you really don’t need to take THAT much food out of the dumpster anyhow, other folks gotta eat too). You’ll need these containers to seperate stuff, you’ll understand when you get there.

2. Have your sink at home empty, and have some clean bowls/boxes/containers on your counter top. You’ll need to rinse stuff of warm soapy water and then water rinse and then into a receptacle.

3. For heavens sake don’t try to enter a compacter not worth the risk/effort.

4. to get best results you need to actually “dive” into the dumpster. Alot of times you can get everything you need from just peeking in the top of it, but that’s really just skimming and the bst ‘cream’ is usually in the middle or near the bottom. Stuff on the bottom is o course too gross to use unless fully sealed.

5. So if you decide to climb in it’s important to have a dumpster buddy outside. You’ll hand them empty boxes and trash to transfer out of the dumpster to give you more room to work in, until about 1/4 of the dumpster is pretty open and you’ve found everything in it. Then move to the next quarter section, shifting all the trash from your current quarter into the quarter you just searched.

6. Here we usually find just shitloads of produce, squash and citrus, wooden crates full of beans or collards, etc. In this manner i am eating tons of plants i would never buy on my own, avacado, collards, acorn squash, etc. Rarely you’ll find eggs or can goods, the good shit.

7. My new rule, after getting sick once, is don’t pull out the stuff you won’t cook, like fruit and salad stuff, if you don’t cook it it’ll never really be clean when you eat it, but as long as you cook the stuff you are fine.