Extreme Minimalists: Man lives out an extreme minimalist lifestyle by dumpster diving for all his food

Welcome to Extreme Minimalists, which shares the stories of individuals who live on less. Check back every week for a new episode, from a family of three living in a van to a woman who lives with absolutely zero furniture!

We've seen how one woman lives out her extreme minimalist lifestyle without any furniture and one man who uses his furniture as storage in his 150-square-foot NYC apartment.

However, one Chicago resident is showing us a side of the extreme minimalist lifestyle we've never seen before. Freddy Freegan has spent the last two years without ever going to the grocery store and instead limiting his food waste by dumpster diving. It's a practice he calls "super exciting' and has helped save him over $2000 a year on groceries.

"You never know what you're going to find," he said to AOL Lifestyle. Freegan was backpacking with his uncle when the two realized just how unusual, yet beneficial, the communal kitchens in budget hostels were. "We were kind of going about through city life, we started realizing maybe this is actually better," he asserted.

"Pretty sure all the food that I eat is stuff that would be going to waste," he explained to AOL Lifestyle. "If I can live off stuff that's just going to waste, I know a lot of other people can."

"In my heart I believe it's the right thing to do," he concluded.

See more of Freegan's extreme minimalist lifestyle in the video above.

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