I go to the University of Colorado at Boulder. Every day there are dozens of events with free food waiting to be eaten by hungry engineering students. All you have to do is know where to go! This is my first instructable, but I've found it invaluable. I've gone for weeks without paying for food using this method (although weekends are harder to get through).
I think some of these steps may seem like I'm plugging google, but really its only because that's the application I used to get so much free food. By the way, this can work for non-students too; they never (repeat... never) check for students IDs at these events, at least at the University of Colorado. If you know how to make a google calendar and share it with people, you can skip steps 1-3.
By the way the "Grad Wine and Cheese" event in my calendar is real, and was incredibly delicious, as well as intoxicating (there aren't a lot of Religious Studies grad students, and they had way too much wine). By the way, I'm an Aerospace Engineering senior. I only wish I could have though this up sooner.
I think some of these steps may seem like I'm plugging google, but really its only because that's the application I used to get so much free food. By the way, this can work for non-students too; they never (repeat... never) check for students IDs at these events, at least at the University of Colorado. If you know how to make a google calendar and share it with people, you can skip steps 1-3.
By the way the "Grad Wine and Cheese" event in my calendar is real, and was incredibly delicious, as well as intoxicating (there aren't a lot of Religious Studies grad students, and they had way too much wine). By the way, I'm an Aerospace Engineering senior. I only wish I could have though this up sooner.
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There may be other mail clients with calendar services, but I've found this is the easiest to use and share with friends, which is an important aspect of this instructable. Go to mail.google.com and click on the "Sign up for Gmail" link. You will have to enter some personal information like any other mail client, but it's worth it.
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Facebook has a lot of these already grouped and listed for you. Like https://www.facebook.com/gsucampusevents I think Ill look for these on the weekends. I might have to dress up professorly though.
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Once my friend organized forty pizzas for an international EE masters student welcome presentation, but it conflicted with the university's general masters student welcome presentation. So we had about 35 pizzas left. It was awesome.
When USC inducted President Nikias in December they literally had tables all around campus filled with breakfast stuff like muffins and bread. They even had attendants there. I walked by on the way to a final and they were more than happy to feed me.
University free food is awesome!!! But you have to get used to eating a lot of pizza, sandwiches, coffee/cookies/fruit, and muffins.
At local (or regional) food distributors like Pepsi or Coke for example, they discard some goods for various reasons. Usually a distributor will take product back if the "sell by" or "use by" is within 1 week of the delivery. A decrease in demand or a surplus also ends up with leftover product. Watch for seasonal products too. Any of these only go as far back as the distributor. The only thing left to do with leftover product is to let employees take them. Since most beverages (as in the example) aren't notably considered perishable goods, the date shouldn't affect any quality. Call and ask about scheduling a pick up of some assorted goods. Again, ask first about sampling. Appearing curious is probably better than appearing greedy.
Off to make a google calender and spread this around campus.
Thanks so much for the idea!