Geauga Lake's wildlife

The ladies who work at Big Lots laugh at me when I make my weekly ( or more often) visits. I am known to clear their reduced racks . Boxes of cereal, crackers, cookies , and much more that is close to it's expiration date are put on these racks with a price of usually between twenty five cents to one dollar. It is not at all unusual for me to fill my cart with these various products. One of their main questions is what do I do with all of this? The answer is many things. First of all my kids will eat some of it. They are picky but can't resist boxes of certain cereals, soft chocolate chip cookies and other such treats that are still within their expiration date. Whatever is left and still within date sometimes goes to other people. Mike has taken some chips ,cookies, or such to work where he sets them next to the coffee pot for coworkers to help themselves. Cindy does the same where she takes her medical assisting classes, as does Michael for his school class. Still there tends to be boxes of cereal, crackers and even more cookies left for some children whom we know from lower income families. On many occasions I have filled a couple grocery bags for these kids to take home. For the most part most of it gets eaten within the packages date however from time to time there are certain things that go beyond date or that the kids open to decide that they don't like . No reason to panic, even though I hate to waste food, all hope is not lost for I have the solution. We feed it to the ducks, geese , and fish. Some lakes have more people feeding the wildlife than others so one of Our favorites is Geauga Lake. Most people do not think about bringing "fish food" with them to an Amusement park and the bubble gum type of machines cost fifty cents for maybe fifteen food pellets so the wildlife here will eat about anything . Last visit I took three boxes of Cheddar crackers( total of seventy five cents) and we spent a good half hour feeding the wildlife.

Cindy and Michael had the geese eating out of their hands
There are so many carp and geese fighting for food that the geese end up walking on the carp to get fed
Buy this stuff ? No way !