Has anyone here used Too Good To Go?

MysteryMe

Yes, more retailers have joined my way too. Quite a few smaller cake makers, a fishmonger and more convenience stores.

My favourite Greggs seems to have stopped doing it as they have not listed anything for over a month although the other two I have used still are.

I have found the best most consistent bags have come from a coffee / sandwich shop on an out of town office complex. The bags are a little more than Greggs at £3.79 but the amount and quality of the food is fantastic. None of the usual cheese and ham suspects, it's duck or roast beef wraps. Lovely salad boxes, I have had king prawn / Italian meats / tuna boxes. Also vegan food which is really tasty, smoked paprika cauliflower wrap and last time a bento box which was full of noodles, vegetables, pulses and tofu. Also get lovely cake and cinnamon bagels. They only put boxes on for Friday collection which is handy if I am going away for the weekend but competition is keen! 

Looking at the feedback, the pizza place I mentioned a while back is still offering great value so I may try them next.

It's awful reading some of the comments from people who have been made to feel like the dregs of society when they have collected their bags. That's so nasty, no doubt these workers object to being looked down on by customers so they should not be acting the same themselves.

Rosa_Damascena

MysteryMe said:

Yes, more retailers have joined my way too. Quite a few smaller cake makers, a fishmonger and more convenience stores.

My favourite Greggs seems to have stopped doing it as they have not listed anything for over a month although the other two I have used still are.

I have found the best most consistent bags have come from a coffee / sandwich shop on an out of town office complex. The bags are a little more than Greggs at £3.79 but the amount and quality of the food is fantastic. None of the usual cheese and ham suspects, it's duck or roast beef wraps. Lovely salad boxes, I have had king prawn / Italian meats / tuna boxes. Also vegan food which is really tasty, smoked paprika cauliflower wrap and last time a bento box which was full of noodles, vegetables, pulses and tofu. Also get lovely cake and cinnamon bagels. They only put boxes on for Friday collection which is handy if I am going away for the weekend but competition is keen! 

Looking at the feedback, the pizza place I mentioned a while back is still offering great value so I may try them next.

It's awful reading some of the comments from people who have been made to feel like the dregs of society when they have collected their bags. That's so nasty, no doubt these workers object to being looked down on by customers so they should not be acting the same themselves.

I had this in the supermarket this evening - went in for some spirits on offer and came out with the intended bottles plus some YS goodies, which are going straight into the freezer. I had the nerve to claim a 10% discount on the food and the the SA decided to announce the number of pennies I had saved as they were handing the receipt over.

It's really obvious to me that they were a seasonal worker and would be going home and telling their nearest and dearest about the sad customer prepared to spend so much on alcohol but food priced at rock bottom. Ah well...

YoungBlueEyes

I would've made a joke of it Rosa. "I've gotta buy the reduced stuff, it's the only way I can afford me gin!"

But then I'm like that.

Rosa_Damascena

YoungBlueEyes said:

I would've made a joke of it Rosa. "I've gotta buy the reduced stuff, it's the only way I can afford me gin!"

But then I'm like that.

I don't need to account for my choices. But then neither do I expect to be judged for them!

You were spot on about the gin btw!

thriftytracey

I signed up for Too Good to Go, but living in a rural area the only offers are left over roast dinners from pubs or some cider from Purity (and not exactly cheap).

Rosa_Damascena

thriftytracey said:

I signed up for Too Good to Go, but living in a rural area the only offers are left over roast dinners from pubs or some cider from Purity (and not exactly cheap).

You're right, you're much better off in an urban area with plenty of small businesses, coffee shops and supermarkets. I've been really lucky with Co-Op bags lately, plenty of items and the small amount of what's not been vegetarian has been given away.

Rosa_Damascena

My latest haul:


A low cost treat when I am working late (too often), it's addictive!!

PennyMoney

Has anyone had any success in completing and sending a "comments" form to TGTG?  Over the past couple of days I've been trying to contact them about a Morrisons order I collected but their app keeps rejecting, saying they're unable to process it. ( Virtually all items were up to three days past their Best Before dates, which of course may still be ok, but some were two days past their Use By dates ) .

Rosa_Damascena

Not used the comments section but whenever there has been a problem with an order then I have put this in the feedback facility related to that specific order and they have got back to me quickly. Will PM you the info address I have.

I went a bit wild with TGTG last month and ended up with a load of food that I couldn't actually give away. So far I have only had one purchase this year, that was Costa and it lasted me 3 meals, albeit light ones. 

Krakkkers

Just got a toogoodtogo bag from Costa and very impressed, over £30 worth for £3.
4 Tuna melt panini's, 2 ham and cheese toasties, some kind of croissant and an MS tuna and sweetcorn sandwich.