He Fed His Family Food That Had Been Thrown Out In The Garbage For Dinner One Night, Which Totally Grossed Out His Wife

Yakobchuk Olena - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Yakobchuk Olena - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

This man grew up incredibly poor, and when he was 6, his mom got a promotion at work and moved several hours away from home.

It was only later on when he was an adult, that he found out that truth. His mom had actually saved up a ton of money, yet she only gave his alcoholic father a tiny amount of money to raise him and his sister.

“By the time I was 16, we were technically on our own, and I was ransacking dumpsters to feed myself and my sister,” he explained.

“I’m now in my late 30s, have a successful career, and live quite comfortably; my sister is also well off now.”

“My wife and I have a great relationship; I’ve worked to stop some of my old habits from my upbringing. Some of my penny-pinching techniques, my wife graciously ignores and lets me save our money where I can. However, there’s one issue we always can’t find a compromise.”

This one issue he cannot get over is wasting any kind of food, and it’s easy to understand why he can’t let go of this, considering that he used to dumpster dive to get food for himself and his sister.

Now, he and his wife have a daughter who is 12, and she asked for chickens a year ago. They agreed, and he feels that the chickens are wonderful because they can feed their chickens a lot of scraps of food that otherwise would end up in the garbage.

Another issue surrounding food in their house involves his wife buying groceries in bulk. She ends up buying more food than their family can use, and that is pretty wasteful.

Although he and his wife have talked about this, she still buys too much food that they do not end up using.

Yakobchuk Olena – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

And, a week ago, he arrived home to discover a package of lettuce, some potatoes, an entire cucumber, and a loaf of bread thrown in the trash.

He picked everything up and realized that the lettuce was past its expiration date but appeared to be edible anyway.

The bread was expired as well, but it also looked fine. And everything else wasn’t spoiled or rotten yet either, so he dug it all out of the trash and used it to make dinner that evening.

“I grilled chicken, which was the only item not from the trash,” he said. “I made a salad and added the cucumber, used the bread to make croutons. And finally, I made mashed potatoes.”

“We all sat down to eat, my wife mentioned how great the food was. I told her it was what she had thrown out earlier that day. She was completely mortified and grossed out.”

He then informed his wife that he had made sure to wash all of the things before he used them to make dinner, though that didn’t make her feel better at all.

He tried to get his wife to see his side; the food was fine for them to enjoy in their dinner that evening, so it should never have made it to the trash.

He then said if his wife had wanted to throw it out anyway, she should have asked their daughter to feed it to the chickens instead of dumping it and wasting it.

“She was irritated with me, fearing we all would have food poisoning or something,” he continued.

“But none of us got sick from the food. She said regardless, it was wrong for me to prove a point in that manner and borderline abuse to serve the family food from the trash.”

“I don’t really see what I did wrong; there are starving people in this world, and for us to throw out perfectly fine food just doesn’t sit right with me.”

He’s left wondering if his wife is right, and if it was somehow wrong of him to dig the food out of the trash and use it to feed his family.

What do you think?

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