Citations:opportunivore

Noun: "a person who subsists on still-edible food that has been or was going to be discarded"

 * 2006 — Sandor Ellix Katz, The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements, Chelsea Green Publishing (2006), ISBN 9781933392110, page 293:
 * This was because I have heard some dumpster divers pride themselves on their "freegan" or "opportunivore" adaptability.
 * 2007 — Jenn Geary, "Consumed with less: not buying any food", The Globe and Mail, 13 January 2007:
 * Called freegans, urban foragers, opportunivores, these social activists are so repulsed by the food waste in developed countries — and the larger politics of the food industry — they rifle through trash cans to salvage "corporate leftovers" for their meals.
 * 2008 — Matthew Power, "Mississippi drift: River vagrants in the age of Wal-Mart", Harper's Magazine, March 2008:
 * An estimated $75 billion worth of food is thrown out yearly in America, and it doesn’t take a great leap of logic to connect the desire to live sustainably with the almost limitless supply of free food that overflows the nation’s dumpsters. Thus the opportunivore can forage either overtly or covertly, by asking up front or diving out back.
 * 2010 — Buckhard Bilger, "Nature's Spoils", The New Yorker, 22 November 2010:
 * About half the household's food had been left somewhere to rot, Clover said, and there was often enough to share with Asheville's other opportunivores.

Noun: "one who will generally eat whatever is available, having a diet that excludes few foods"

 * 1997 — Hugh Fearnley Whittingsall, "Cowardly carnivore", The Evening Standard, 27 May 1997:
 * 'I enjoy eating meat occasionally,' she explained, 'but I don't have to feel guilty about it, because I never buy it myself. I only eat meat when it is cooked for me by my friends.' And she added, with just a hint of smugness, 'I like to call myself an opportunivore.'
 * 2003 — Kate Swearengen, "Activism, Princeton-style", Princeton Alumni Weekly, 26 February 2003:
 * TThe recipe hunt was made more difficult because four of the housemates are vegans, meaning they won't eat any sort of animal product; two of the housemates are vegetarians, and Nate's an opportunivore, meaning that he'll eat anything that's around.
 * 2010 — Brian J. Bender, Farming Around the Country: An Organic Odyssey, NorLightsPress.com (2010), ISBN 9781935254331, page 96:
 * Although I'm an opportunivore, choosing to eat whatever tasty foods come my way, regardless of animal content, I like to think I have some dietary standards.
 * 2010 — Alissa York, "The terror within", Globe and Mail, 14 September 2010:
 * Their secret? Like us, they [coyotes] survive by adapting: they’re opportunivores, feeding on everything from insects to garbage to deer;

Noun: "a person who actively seeks or takes advantage of opportunities"

 * 1998 — Ted Kerasote, "Be an opportunivore: what American sportsmen can learn from African bushmen", Sports Afield, 1 August 1998:
 * In "opportunivore" style, they are using their traditional skills to enter the global cash economy.
 * 2010 — Paul Lindholdt, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau, University of Iowa Press (2011), ISBN 9781587299841, page 93:
 * From Dillard I learn to get in the way of grace, to stalk opportunities, become an outdoor opportunivore.
 * 2012 — "’Cause Everyone Is Rock ’Em-Sock ’Em Robots", The Arcata Eye, 18 January 2012:
 * A 10th Street resident came home to find a table smashed and computer stolen from his home. The windows had been left open, allowing free access for a malicious opportunivore.
 * 2012 — Dan Schawbel, "Should Journalists Become Entrepreneurs?", Forbes, 26 January 2012:
 * Those were heady times for a young, omnivorous reporter: I handled everything from stakeouts to regional front-page features, writing on topics from nuclear power to heroin addiction. I call myself an "opportunivore" because I’m still drawn to a wide range of stories.