Airbnb

Airbnb tourists sometimes leave perfectly fresh food, neatly packed on the curbs, as they cannot take it home and mostl likely have to leave the apartment as found, so with an empty fridge. Personally I would't mind finding my fridge full after coming home, but rules are rules I guess. I don't remember all but one is a pack of cut salami, with an ok date, unopened and though it was there in the sun it can't have been for long, because someone else would have taken it. For sure safe to eat and I enjoyed what I cannot well afford.

Last Tuesday's lot was pretty amazing and I wonder who left this and why. Or why a tourist would buy this much when you spend most part of your vacation outdoors.

I came home from a local job but took a different route because of road works, so avoiding a detour. It led me past the recycling shop where outside is a collection box for deposit cans and bottles. So I crossed the street to have a look. It gave me one can but then, on the free library shelves also there I first noticed two eggplants. Not very shiny on the outside but looking good enough. Then there was the plastic bag... On top two bags of frozen vegetables. They still felt pretty cold. Not 100 % frozen anymore, but I felt confident to refreeze them if consumed in the next two weeks ore so. Only looked at the rest at home:

Two half loafs of cut bread, dated just one day earlier. Potatoes. Two large pieces of ginger. Two spring onions. Three baby cucumbers, already eaten by now. Some garlic cloves. And the tubes of mayonnaise and ketchup. Opened but just for one squeeze or so. Refridgerated you can keep those for almost ever.

Put bread in freezer but started on it yesterday. The other one is still in. I made soup with the eggplants on Wednesday already so not on picture, first try it was lovely! And mighty wholesome. Cooked the potatoes today to work in my salad to take to work tommorrow. But there's enough left for Saturday. Spring onions went in as well. Ginger is not in my cookbook but will try in the next eggplant soup. Experiment! I hate ginger bread but unknowingly I must have had it in Indian dishes, never say no to what you don't know.

I consider giveaway spots a grey area between trash and thrift, but as the bookshelves are really meant for books anything else left on them for me is trash.