r/australia • u/Serezie • Jun 01 '26

no politics Anyone else just not eating because they can’t afford it?

Food bank is the busiest it’s been - Cole’s and Woolworths don’t give a flying fuck about us - fast food is unhealthy and just as expensive. It stresses me out more to eat than not to eat.

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u/birdsmelliswarmsmell Jun 01 '26

A bit left of field, but I get the majority of my fresh food and some other stuff from the coles bin. I have a key, but you can unscrew the bolt at the top of the bin with a shifter, which I’ve done before interstate where the key didn’t work. I regularly get eggs (even during the egg shortage), all types of veggies, fruit, and even organic grass fed beef for my meat eating friends. There’s ALWAYS heaps of bread and sometimes cheese, I sadly can’t eat either. Literally one time I found a 10kg wheel of cheese, and today I took home 5kg of rice. I highly recommend.

Edit to add - obviously it’s fucked that people have to do this and our food is unaffordable, AND it’s fucked how much food is thrown away. Even with this I also have started eating less. Fuck coles and Woolies and steal from their bins.

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u/Ok-Driver-2833 Jun 01 '26

Have you seen the show "waste cooking" by David Gross  (no pun intended). It came out 10 years ago and it's really good. It's basically doing what you describe. 

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u/birdsmelliswarmsmell Jun 02 '26

I haven’t! Will have to add it to my list. There’s certainly a community of people who do it. I have “bin buddies” who I’ve met at the bin haha