- November 8th, 2018
Today, more and more people share the idea of conscious consumption: to wear their bottle under water, dress in second hand and not buy extra products. There are those who went further and completely refused to buy products in stores. Instead, they are exploring garbage dumps and friends with marketers in order to intercept free frozen fish or potatoes that have not completely dried up. The Village talked to the Moscow frigo and found out where they find a good delay, how to treat roasted vegetables and why food stores do not want to share unwanted food.
textYulya Radkevich
Virginia Glushitsky, 36 years oldEngaged in frigging yearOnce I saw how the containers in the garbage dumped the crates of bread and cried. Then the family was tricky with finances: the third child was born. I took out the bread, folded it in a big bag and carried it home. On the way half handed out to neighbors. I was appalled by the blasphemous attitude to the products, and I began to be interested in this topic - they helped the thematic sites and acquaintance with frigana. And he was shocked when he learned that the release of normal products is a widespread phenomenon.I do not have a car, so the waste was looking at step-by-step availability at random. He chose two or three not far from each other and studied: he monitored the release of products over time, questioned the workers, but they rarely shared information. But I learned that in some stores still suitable for food products are put in boxes in the territory, but more often packed and thrown away. Some even lock their containers on the key and put the guards on the perimeter. Now I'm going for Phrygia (Delayed Food. - Note Ed.) Several times a week and spend on each raid for up to three hours.I support the eldest son - he's 14. He used to ask him why I was feeding him with garbage, but I was able to convey my point of view. Friends also do not condemn me. And to the other I do not tell about my admiration. Anyway, I will not be able to convince them, they will not be me. But those friends who go with me on the raid, are greatly surprised by the finds in the trash. For example, I met exotic fruits and rainbow trout there. Of the things - a huge leather armchair. I also often look for good clothes for my children and myself.Occurred products are not yet expired. Although I was convinced that in fact he was much more often mentioned. Therefore, there is no delay I'm not afraid, but I check it in advance. For myself, there are several rules. Milk does not spoil a couple of days after the specified time, and kislomolochka perfectly goes out and a week. Bread is edible for four to five days and is not moldy. Spoiled fruits and vegetables I rinse with hot water and soap, clean and turn into compotes, jams, sauces and soup refills.With fish and meat you need to be careful: it's better to smell and not risk if the smell turned out to be unpleasant. The cooled meat is rapidly decaying - but I put it in a freezer and I will win another two weeks. Also, I always adhere to the advice: sausages, dairy and meat products are best taken in a closed package. I do not take medicines in the garbage dumps, especially with the expired term.During the time of frigging, I have never been poisoned. The money has become bigger, but I do not refuse the products from rubbish - I am unpleasant about the situation with the release. People have forgotten that such a war, a blockade and a hunger. And if in Europe stores sell poorly-sold products, then in our country there is still no such thing. And this could solve the problems of poverty.
Jan Lisitsky, 27 years oldEngaged in frigging for two yearsI was tired of routine life, so two years ago I started hitchhiking from Omsk to Russia. I learned about frigging in my city, but in our Siberian deafness it is a rarity: delays are written off, taken to landfills, or it diverges from home sellers.I came close to the frigentials in Yekaterinburg. Since there was not much money, when traveling, I entered people for free and saved on products. But I would like to thank the owners altogether. So I asked local friggers, and I was shown garbage bags. I would be shocked by the amount thrown out. The first time I was lucky: I brought many yuzabelnoy Phrygia, and the owners were glad.But later, I realized that it is energy-intensive - it takes a lot of time and effort. From finding the point to complete confidence that there will be Phrygia, it takes about two months. At the same time attack the point has to be daily - so you can learn more about the time of release of products.When I got the experience in Yekaterinburg, I began to pre-search for the community about frigging in every city where I traveled. It all depends on the case: you never know whether the garbage is open on the territory of the store or outside. But for me it is not an obstacle. I'm trying to negotiate with colleagues. Reacting ambiguously - but it does not depend on the network, but on people. Some look like a debbie, and somebody helps. Workers, apparently, are punished for tips.Also, I'm frigging in the markets: somewhere the sellers themselves put up with overdue bags. I found a lot of delicious: oranges, avocados, bananas. One day there were bags of potatoes of 50 kilograms, and only half of it had rotted from it. The rest of the part I cut off quite a bit. I also came up to the sellers in the evening and asked what they wanted to throw. They often went to meet and gave food, mostly vegetables: tomatoes and cucumbers.I got a frozen fish, whose shelf life expired only the next day. There were also excellent Phrygia: I somehow gave five kilograms of beautiful fish.I never tasted Phrygia. My vegetables and fruits are running water, nothing more is needed to do with them. Sometimes I cut rot or mold. The quality of milk, yogurt, kislomolochka is determined by the first throat. If the smell of cheese is unpleasant, you can use it for cooking cheesecakes, pancakes and other delicacies. From experience: if the expiration date expired yesterday, then you can still drink.The meat falls less often, and it is difficult to determine its freshness. You need to check the packaging, the smell, the kind. Usually fading meat becomes gray, as the dye does not work anymore. If completely defective, you can cut the upper part and eat the other. Sausage with the term, exhausted two or three days ago, also eaten, and nothing happened.If you find a good point, in the friganas there is a tacit rule: do not take more than necessary. I always leave some products for the needy. I have it disappeared, and others can come in handy.Maria Petrova (name changed to the request of the heroine), 25 years oldEngaged in frigging yearI was interested in frigging in August 2017. Not because of the environment - I'm tired of spending a lot of money on products. Then my feminist friends first took me to the first Fregan raid. They showed me a point in a grocery store where you can take food. I saw a lot of people who did not need the products and were very inspired.I was looking for information about the delay in thematic communities in Vkontakte and Google. I also wanted to find a company there for frigging, but it did not work. Therefore, I go alone or with my friends, whom I devoted myself to admiring. But they are not frigging constantly: they need a lot of strength, time and motivation.Usually I find products near supermarkets: "Magnet", "Dixie", "Pyaterochka". Every store has its trash: in yards or on their territory, and if they are not locked into a lock, employees are fined - especially in expensive supermarkets, such as the "ABC of taste". Some frigens negotiate with the workers of the points, and they at some time bring them food. But in my practice this was not the case. Usually employees in the stores are quite hostile. In relatively elite sleeping areas - for example, in Troparevo-Nikulin - containers do not leave open: residents do not have to see how many products are emitted.I'm friends with janitors. For example, in Chertanovo they showed me a trash that I did not know about. Then we exchanged phones, and they sometimes brought me food: they called and asked to pick it up.I do not handle vegetables and fruits made from debris by special means - so the probability of poisoning more. Carefully mine with their hot water, and spoiled parts cut. No time in a year, I did not feel intoxication or other problems: it even impresses me.Those dairy products that I find are usually overdue for a day, at least for a few. It happens that there is still time before the end of storage. But I ate overdue products a week, and nothing was with me. Before use it is necessary to rely not only on the term: it is usually shorter than the real one, but also on appearance, smell and taste. If products are suspected, it is better to throw them away. Still, health is more important.Also, I made a map for friggers (now deleted - Note Ed.) And it marked places where you can find good eaten food. There were about 15 points. Selected according to one criterion - places where the delay appears regularly. It does not matter whether there is a grocery store in Khimki or on the World avenue - I checked it and then added it to the map. The map evolved, but slowly the idea fell dead. Frigens reluctantly share their points, do not want to constantly go to new places and check them out. But I remember myself and think: if I had before my eyes such a map at the beginning of frigging, it would be easier for me.Frigging - not only about my benefit, but also about the salvation of containers of suitable products. I try not to miss trips to garbage cans, it goes out several times a week. For me this is a serious internal work, I do something useful.I understand that eating food is a well thought-out policy of the owners of large retailers. The greatest damage is from the X5 Retail Group, which includes the Crossroads, Carousel, Pyaterochka and Magnet. They buy more products than they need and place a small percentage on emissions. It's very hypocritical: now people eat terribly and spend all their salaries on food, and the rich so porky turn to food. This is the most annoying thing.Garbage can be better than the Russians can afford to make money. I found pineapples, avocados, maracuies. Also, during the New Year I met many new poppies and New Year's toys in packs and toothpaste. I'm not frigging with medicines, because I'm not sick. But I know there is a drug exchange community.I hope that the government will adopt a law on the prohibition of the release of products and their distribution in the near future. And the problem of hunger is decided by a finger click. Such experience exists in France : stores do not have the right to throw out their assortment, but they are obliged to take it out in social funds in advance, and those - to give it to the needy. If we implement such a scheme with us, at first the profit of the networks will fall, but not for long.Andrew, 26 years oldHe engaged in frigging three monthsA couple of years ago, I decided to leave my parents and rent an apartment. Spend all the money on rent, lodging and arrangement, and could not afford to go to the movies or buy clothes. Then I came across an article about friganas who collect food that is thrown by restaurants. It turned out that many of them store products for no more than 24 hours, then just throw away. Several institutions indicated in the article, but from the network only Prime. According to the location, we had convenient points on Maroseyka, Solyanka and Kuznetsky bridge.That evening I went to see what was happening there. The scheme was this: food is brought at night, it is sold all day, and after closing, about 23:00, - thrown away. Workers clog all the rest of the shelves in full packages and put them in disposable packages. After half an hour the cleaner takes them to the cart in a container. How clean he was - I do not know, but there was no sense of dirt and rubbish.The main category of people at such points is poor. Not homeless and not alcoholics, just live in the center and do not work. I met such a man, he is about 55 years old. While we were waiting for the removal of the delay, he said that he is now without work and collects stamps. It is convenient for him: he lives almost in the next yard and does so constantly.I was doing this for about three or four months. It was strange and embarrassing to me that people were eating fresh meals. It caused an internal protest: which cheater, let me go home, if nobody needs it. My diet was made up of salads, roles, limes, dietary dishes, ginger stances, and just sharp, experimental or tasteless things. Meat almost did not happen, only different fish. It seems to me, this food at first is unlikely to be well sold.When I got accustomed, I drew about half a thousand at a time - Prime is still a rather expensive place. And then I told him about it. This became a mistake. When I then came to the point at Solyanka, in the yard, besides two or three friganas, there was a crowd of young people. They laughed loudly, drank beer. Cries broke the well-established infrastructure, and someone called the police. The whip started.When we came to the next time to the cafe, we saw open packages: the workers tear it out before throwing food out. There was no sense in this. Apparently, just did not want to feed the homeless. Later, they began to do so at other points: they were opened, sometimes they were stabbed with a knife or scissors and the contents were thrown out.I understand that frigging will never cease to be something marginal. You can not rent an apartment, communicate with friends, and do not go to the store every night, and dig into the garbage in hand with the homeless. And as if you do not touch them, the packaging is clean and there are no problems. But the fact is: you are digging in containers. It breeds complexes. There must be a strong inner core and a character to exist in this mode and not feel like a rogue.