Reply #10: I had a small farm...

[Bigmack]

.. while I was a teacher. I fed my animals like kings from a big grocery store in the yuppie suburb where I taught.

Out dated milk and yoghurt - eggnog at Xmas - veggies that didn't make the cut, outdated lunchmeat and cheese, cereals... even beer. Nothing helps a recently delivered sow let down her milk like a 6 pack!

Barrels of the stuff... every day.

And then there was the pulled bread at the huge commercial bakery.... and "overbake" - they just made more than they could sell. Three truckloads a week.

I used to thank the yuppie gods for the bounty of that town.

It was soooo wrong... but my animals ate asparagus in January and had fresh veggies every day.