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How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food?
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If you're in the US you might want to look into applying for EBT/food stamps at your local social security office if you haven't. It's not a ton of money for food, but it helps in combination with food banks and such. They'll give you a card you can use at grocery stores and such.
As for dumpster diving, back when I was homeless I would dumpster dive sometimes, Aldi was a good source because they do this stupid thing where they package all their produce in cellophane wrap, but they'll do six tomatos to a package or whatever, and when one gets mold or damage they chuck the whole thing. So a lot of times we'd find perfectly good, wrapped produce just hanging out.
Bakeries are also good for day-olds. Though they also often donate their day olds to food banks and soup kitchens and stuff. If so, they might be able to tell you where.
I would just be careful as some store owners will spray bleach or other poisons into their foid dumpster to stop people getting the food. I never saw it myself, and I believe it is illegal, but it was something other homeless folks I ran across talked about.
Sorry that you're struggling to meet your basic needs.