Has anyone here used Too Good To Go?

Dizzy_Ditzy

I got a chicken tikka baguette, a ham salad baguette, cheese sandwiches and a chicken bake. No sweet stuff at all but this was a different Greggs to last time. Certainly not complaining 🙂

JGB1955

I bought one from a local 'artisan' bakery. Ended up having to fill my freezer with 'weird' bread!

Rosa_Damascena

JGB1955 said:

I bought one from a local 'artisan' bakery. Ended up having to fill my freezer with 'weird' bread!

Handmade bread usually doesn't contain preservatives, hence is stale after a day. Nor does it survive the freezing process particularly well IME, unlike mass produced goodies adorned with YS. The only thing it is fit for is croutons.

baltiqueen

Tried a couple of times but very disappointing.  Local Chinese for instance served left over noodles from the buffet. Basically slop with no meat or veg. I’ll save money by cooking good food myself 

Rosa_Damascena

baltiqueen said:

Tried a couple of times but very disappointing.  Local Chinese for instance served left over noodles from the buffet. Basically slop with no meat or veg. I’ll save money by cooking good food myself 

You are much better of with national supermarkets and coffee shops. Anything promising a hot meal is bound to be odds and sods from an exposed buffet.

tofu-eater_3

I had a horrible experience with 'Too Good to Go' .....so this is about three years ago now. I purchased a special offer deal on some food from a restaurant I know well and had eaten in many times.Went in to pick up my food and some tired and unenthusiastic staff had doled out the scrapings from the end of the day into various take away boxes.There were a couple of people in front of me and I saw that they picked up the best boxes taking several of each ,it was a falafel shop, and they got the best boxes which had the falafel balls in them , I said to the staff that it wasn't fair that I had just seen the people in front picking all the best boxes and why couldn't they do the allocation of boxes fairly, so I got basically the scrapings of the salads which had been left over and were going in the bin ,and a box filled with only homous ,everything was messy and jumbled together,as I had been a regular visitor to the shop buying their salad boxes and wraps I was aware of how much I was being ripped off.It was obvious the staff didn't have much respect for the people collecting their 'Too Good To Go' purchases and it was just a tedious task that added to the work they had to do at the end of their shift which they begrudged doing ,I got the impression the staff thought we were some sort of down and outs who had got the food for free ,when in fact we had paid for the food. I think I complained to To Good to Go and they gave me my money  back So....I think this is kinda' interesting though ,I was so disgusted by the experience that it put me off buying anything from the cafe for good and I never bought any more of their wraps or salad boxes again ,and I used to visit them a few times a week before that ,so ,they lost all of my custom from that experience

tofu-eater_3

I don't like the 'unhygienic-ness' of it , I used to see on 'Too Good To Go' (don't know if they still do it) that you could go and basically pick up the left overs from hotel breakfast buffet ,so ,I suppose some people might think they got good value for money if they got loads of bacon and tonnes and tonnes of stuff ,but I wouldn't want anything from a buffet that had been left out for hours in a hotel with lots of people possibly touching the food

YoungBlueEyes

I agree about the unhygienic-ness of it. 

Forgive me if I confuse the terms because I don't use any of them (too good to go/Olio etc). There was a post recently, someone saying they'd got some humous/kefir or something in their box but they weren't for eating it so they were going to put it on Olio.  Made me wonder what kind of condition it would be in for the final recipient. 

I worked in Tescos years ago.  When we were restocking chilled/frozen stuff we had a strict timeframe to start and finish the job. Anything that was out longer than x minutes was destroyed.  Nasties can grow quicker than some people realise. I appreciate that supermarkets have to take a harder line than you would follow at home, but still.

Rosa_Damascena

YoungBlueEyes said:

I agree about the unhygienic-ness of it. 

Forgive me if I confuse the terms because I don't use any of them (too good to go/Olio etc). There was a post recently, someone saying they'd got some humous/kefir or something in their box but they weren't for eating it so they were going to put it on Olio.  Made me wonder what kind of condition it would be in for the final recipient. 

I worked in Tescos years ago.  When we were restocking chilled/frozen stuff we had a strict timeframe to start and finish the job. Anything that was out longer than x minutes was destroyed.  Nasties can grow quicker than some people realise. I appreciate that supermarkets have to take a harder line than you would follow at home, but still.

People using Olio know that storage conditions may have been compromised from the minute the item has left the store, and are prepared to take the chance. Anyone prepared to post on Olio is taking their own time out to do so, and know they can be traced should anything go wrong. I think that is probably a sufficient insurance policy.

Rosa_Damascena

I bought a Costa bag for the first time in a couple of months today - family was over and I thought it would make a nice shared snack with late afternoon coffee. The bag contained a large panini and two sandwiches for toasting, at £3 I thought it was a fair price given the cost of ingredients these days.

The selection of outlets on TGTG seems to be much broader now!