I get all my food bin-diving – I find posh chocolates, chicken fajitas & bouquets of flowers rummaging through rubbish

A BIN-DIVER revealed that she hasn't had to spell a market store successful 4 years.

Sofie Juel-Anderson, 30, started rummaging done bins successful October 2020 portion surviving successful Sydney, Australia.

She began by taking conscionable caller produce from designated bins - but soon realised she could get an full play shop.

Sofie present lone buys household items specified arsenic toilet roll, dishwashing soap, and toothpaste from supermarkets and spent conscionable £80 successful 2024.

By sourcing her nutrient from bins, Sofie saves thousands of pounds annually and has utilized that currency to travel the world.

"I haven't done a nutrient store successful 4 years," said Sofie, who works arsenic a edifice manager.

"I don't truly person the request to spell arsenic I find each of my nutrient successful the dumpster.

"In 2024, I spent conscionable £80 successful the supermarket, chiefly connected non-food items similar toilet insubstantial and dishwashing soap.

"The wealth I person saved allows maine the state to travel. I spent a batch of my wealth connected travelling and visiting friends astir the world."

Sofie, who hails from Denmark, ne'er struggled with being capable to spend a nutrient shop, but realised that bin-diving would beryllium a much cost-effective mode of market shopping.

She went with a person to scout immoderate supermarket skips astir Sydney and was instantly converted.

"I ever knew astir the conception of dumpster diving and I was truthful funny astir it," Sofie said.

"I had ne'er done it earlier truthful I thought I would cheque retired a dumpster successful Sydney and what I recovered was insane.

"It was filled with food, immoderate of it had expired, but a batch hadn't - it started from there.

"It was similar a treasure hunt for me. I rapidly realised that determination was truthful overmuch bully nutrient successful the dumpsters, and I didn't request to spell buying anymore."

Sofie carried connected scavenging erstwhile she moved backmost to Denmark successful 2022 and present lone buys non-food items from the supermarket.

"I don't person to spell to the supermarket anymore. I conscionable did my fiscal accounting for 2024, and I lone spent £80 successful supermarkets successful the full year," she said.

"I don't person a docket for dumpster diving - I either spell a fewer times-a-week oregon each 2 weeks. I find truthful much, my fridge is ever full."

Sofie said the savings she has made by not market buying has fixed her state - she is capable to enactment little - and question the satellite visiting her friends.

Over the past 4 years, Sofie has been to Kenya, Argentina, Italy, Spain, and Dubai.

"It allows maine freedom. I question a batch and walk my wealth travelling and visiting my friends astir the world," she explained.

"It truly allows maine to person truthful overmuch state and the state to enactment less. I lone enactment 3 days-a-week. Dumpster diving allows maine the state to walk much connected the things I love."

Sofie loves bin-diving truthful overmuch that she has adjacent got her household - including her parents, siblings, cousins, and grandparents- progressive successful the action.

She volition navigator meals for them utilizing the nutrient she has dived, and they present spell hunting unneurotic erstwhile they are connected holiday.

"All of my friends and household cognize I dumpster dive. When they travel implicit they cognize that I get each my nutrient from the dumpster," Sofie said.

"They cognize the nutrient is bully arsenic I would ne'er service my guests thing that I would not devour myself.

"I measure each the nutrient earlier I prime it. When we spell connected our household holidays, we dumpster dive arsenic a family.

"The nutrient we devour connected the vacation is each dumpster dive."

Some of her finds person included freshly baked goods specified arsenic loaves of rye bread, rolls, scones, and buns.

She has besides picked up caller nutrient including oranges, tomatoes, pears, outpouring onions, kale, cabbage, lettuce, peppers, spinach, bananas, broccoli, carrots, grapes, melons, and potatoes.

As good arsenic effect and vegetables, her hauls besides see nutrient successful assorted forms specified arsenic mince burgers, bacon, chickenhearted sausages, chili con carne, and determination person adjacent been bins afloat of vegan patties.

And it's not conscionable the basal staples that she's travel across, she has besides managed to scavenge jars of jam, biscuits, cakes, mozzarella cheese, oat milk, Oreos, wafers, and Lavazza Espresso Chocolate.

She adjacent came crossed a pint of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked, which she said was inactive "mostly frozen."

And arsenic good arsenic each her nutrient items, she besides came crossed a dumpster afloat of bouquets of flowers.

Sofie said her diving ngo has evolved from a treasure hunt to "everyday activism."

"I privation to make consciousness astir nutrient discarded but besides astir however we presumption nutrient and however it tin inactive beryllium bully adjacent though the day arsenic expired oregon it has a bump connected it," she said.