In Denmark, food found in the trash can be better than we eat.

Jackie has just moved from Canada to Denmark to study. As soon as he arrived in Denmark, he met two friends and asked him if he dared to pick up the trash cans in the middle of the night. "Why not!. "(Come!) ）......

So the story begins.

Late one night, Jackie a day of study, determined to go out and take a chance. He put on the more dirty clothes, to find a kind of unusual rare ingredients-rubbish. It was the first time he had tried such adventurous ingredients, and he was nervous and excited. Then he found his target in a dumpster in the back of a grocery store.

A large bag of bread, cakes, biscuits and fresh fruits and vegetables lay quietly in the box, some even with plastic packaging bought at the time. Nordic cold and dry weather allows temperature and humidity to be controlled in an excellent range, most foods are kept before they are discarded, no corruption, no sour odor, this is the best gift of nature and the Danish people together.

Jackie also summarizes 4 steps, listing a list:

1. After the store closes, wait about 20 minutes to half an hour to move.
2. Wear clothes that don't mind being soiled
3. Grab the bag and the flashlight.
4. Free food get!

The point is: throw everything you don't want back, don't turn it around like a raccoon, and the person who cleans up your mess (ie, the sanitation worker or the grocery store owner) will be angry enough to lock the dumpster for two weeks and you'll have nothing.

Jackie said the great discovery of the dustbin operation was like opening a treasure trove for himself. So he made a bolder adventure: in the two weeks of May, he ate only what was found in the dustbin.

He set himself three major principles:

1. Eat what's in the trash.
2. Oil, spices, spices are not food
3. Alcohol is not food

To prove how well he lived for the last two weeks, he also basked in a list of receipts for each day and calculated his own total income, such as the May 6 list:

Leek X3
Broccoli X1
Fresh mushroom X1 Box
Red Chili X3 Only
Little Bread X18 A
Chocolate Muffin X1
Bread X2
Total: 179.50DKK (32 USD)

May 14, he got it again.

Assorted Cheese Platter (contains goat, Bree, Emmentaler, blue and cut cheddar) X5 box
"Zarate" cheese X1 Barrel
Lime X6
Cucumber X1 Root
Avocado X1
Eggplant X2 Only
Bread X3 Block
Little Bread X15 A
Cinnamon rolls, X2.
Pop-tarts X3
Lemon Rolls X4
Croissant X10
Muffin X9 Block
Total: 573.50DKK (105 USD)

After two weeks, he converted the total price of food from the dustbin to 2086 Danish krona, or 380 dollars, exceeding the one-month rent of his dormitory.

Afterwards, he summed up his experience. First of all, he stressed that these two weeks are actually very good. And feel that they are healthier, because generally will be discarded are vegetarian.

At the end of the two weeks, though he no longer depended on the dustbin for a living, he still acquired the ingredients. He said he had not "bought" bread for a long time and that it was a particularly good thing for his wallet.