NYC Freegan Finds and Update

Healthy Work Snacks- BYO so you don't waste money on vending machines!

I know I've been pretty MIA lately .. I've just been enjoying life, working and of course DIVING!! Anyways, I've finally got a day to myself and so I started thinking of the work week ahead.  My fridge is packed full so come Monday I'm moving a weeks worth of food to my office fridge.  I can't believe I didn't get more lunchables on my of my dives last week they threw a ton of them out in boxes (which I've since removed for extra space and so I don't have to clean).  Grr I had no idea they had Capri Sun's in them as well, man who'd of thought I would have found OSCAR MYER lunchables on a dive.  So thats why I havn't even been posting pictures of my Hauls any more because I've kinda got my grove on diving.  Remember all the things I said I had trouble finding .. well not anymore I have tons of Cheese, Yogurts, Lunch Meats, and just enought that I've probably spent less than $30 these past months on food.  And those trips were more couponing stock pile trips.  The above is a weeks worth of work week snacks.  Sometimes, I'll add whole grain cereal to the yogurt for healthy breakfast.

Anyways, I've also found lots of actual EGGs in my dives now too.  Crazy huh.. and I did take some pics of some recent things like tons of Organic Butter.

And the below, again.. I'd wish I'd had grabbed more of this stuff.  Its so yummi!  And these box things are the easiest because to clean all I do is remove the boxes!

I just wanted to say how amazingly grateful to have the chance to do these Food Rescues aka dumpster diving.  It is one of the best things about living in NYC!  I've literally just used all the extra money I've saved and TIME (I rarely cook)  to have fun and just relax!  And while I've been writing this post, I've been doing a yogurt face mask :)

Tofurky Recipe So Amazing

One of the best things about being Freegan in NYC is the amazin high end foods you find that allow you to try new foods.  So I found a brand new package of Tofurky Roast , I threw out the box to make space in my bag but it was perfectly frozen even when I got home.  

So Tofurky its a Vegetarian Turkey made of tofu and other amazing all organic ingredients.

This is what it looks like not exciting but boy is it worth it.

This recipe is so easy too.

I didn't have potato's so I just chopped 3 celerie sticks, 2 handfuls of baby carrots, 1/2 onion and put at the bottom of your casserole dish.

Then I put the Tofurky on top. Created a baste of 3 TBS oil, 1 TBS soy sauce, a dash of garlic powder and pepper.  Pour half of mixture on Tofurky.  Cover dish and bake for 1 1/4 Hour at 400 Degrees.

At an hour past, cover and pour rest of baste on.

Return back to oven till cooking time is over.

Then cook gravy on stove top.

Review: this Tofurky is amazing, it tastes not exactly like Turkey but to me its even better!

Cilantro Rice : What to do with extra Cilantro

So I got inspired by this from eating chipotle early this week.  And its so yummi and easy!  Basically I just cooked white rice in a rice cooker.  And when it was done I added chopped cilantro and some salt for seasoning!!!  I'm so glad I got to use all that extra cilantro I rescued at my last dive.

Freegan Lunch

I've been super busy lately so not much time to post about what I've done with my last haul.  But basically all last week, I've eaten mostly  for free and still have foods in my freezer.  Because the thing is aside from bread, you never know what you'll find so its good to ration what you find too.  Basically Sunday night, I made huge batch of my favorite split pea soup and filled it with a ton of veggies from my haul.  I basically alternated that with salads and the huge batch of pineapple fried rice I made.  I also during the week stir fried the mushrooms and snap peas and long beans.  For breakfast, I had black berry oatmeal and blue berry oatmeal.  I also had some smoothies as well.  Honestly, this has been the healthiest I've eaten in ages!

But today, I had a second so I'd thought I'd post on what I ate for lunch today.

So I got this Hero from my most recent food rescue and the price if I had when inside and bought it a couple hours before would have been $6.99 !!!!! Ridiculous right.

Anyways, I felt really lazy about making lunch today so I decided to eat half of this sandwich for lunch.  I even added some organic baby kale from my freegan salad mix find to jazz it up.

An easy free lunch!!!!