Check out this loot.For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It's not because I can't afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It's because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day. So I dumpster dive, which is exactly like it sounds: I jump into dumpsters, pull out not-yet-expired food, and bring it home to my family. Yes, you could say we eat trash -- but it's delicious! It used to be that nearly every meal we ate contained some "trash" …
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Jeremy Seifert is director of the documentary DIVE! Living Off America's Waste, which has won 21 awards at festivals around the world. He's currently at work on a film about GMOs. When he isn't dumpster diving, Jeremy can be found in Highland Park, Calif., with his wife, Nuf, and three children, Finn, Scout, and Pearl.
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