I once had a Bostonian consultant friend (salary: around $50k a year) who went dumpster diving. He would take the castoff loaves from nice bakeries rather than purchasing them – he was very proud of this fact. When I asked where this dumpster was, he got smug and said it was a secret. Apparently, I was welcome to snack on morsels of his spoils but to steal the bounty before he got his hands on it wasn’t cool.

He would also do things like go with me to cafes and not order anything. Then eat my food.

It was part of his entire lifestyle: he had a horrible, scratched up old car. When it was ruined in an accident, he cheerily biked and took the T to work instead. “I didn’t like the car anyway,” he said, and never replaced it.

It is to him that I dedicate this blog post in STUFF magazine’s website on Boston’s $0-5 dollar cheap dining deals.

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