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Want to know how to turn that huge batch of vegetables that you found in a nearby restaurant’s trash into dinner? Or transform the loaves of bread salvaged from a nearby bakery into bread pudding? We have a TV show for you. The new British online show Ready Steady Skip (Skip is the English term for dumpster diving) will show you how -- taking reality TV to a new online audience this July.

In each episode of the show, airing online, the hosts take ingredients from dumpsters and use them to create a full meal. View the trailer online and pick up some tips from the links on the site.

I think, given that they’re “skipping meals” rather than “dumpster diving,” this is just one more example of how the British are simply more quaint than their American counterparts, and with food prices rising like they are, you might be able to take away some budget-savvy tips along with the recipes.

Photo from a Seeattle blog post about Freeganism.