Has anyone here used Too Good To Go?

Rosa_Damascena

I think I am getting a bit obsessed with TGTG bags, I have hit the 50 mark.

I buy for the joy of giving it away! There's not much I keep for myself, I just find the thrill of the surprise enough .

Nelliegrace

DH decided to see if there was a TGTG for yesterday evening from M&S at the service station. £5 got us food priced at £18.60. Lunch for two days, dinner for tonight with some vegetables. We shall enjoy every bit of it. 

Nelliegrace

We tried three days in a row and were lucky this evening, £5 got us M&S food priced at £17.20. 

Rosa_Damascena

Nelliegrace said:

We tried three days in a row and were lucky this evening, £5 got us M&S food priced at £17.20. 

That is a bag I could get on with

Still not sure it's worth £5, though. Whilst I understand why M&S food is popular, I cannot get over the high original retail prices.

Nelliegrace

I agree @Rosa_Damascena when you compare it to the cost of homemade bread, bread and butter pudding, and scones, especially as we have plenty of eggs from our hens. I could have spent £5 better. DH was pleased with it. 

alidai

Not sure it’s worth £5?
there are 7 items there, even at 70p an item it is good value.

Rosa_Damascena

I was a bit disappointed with my Morrisons bag today. Normally it's packed full of goodies, today was very mediocre. Not much in it and there was not one single item I would have picked myself. As a certain ex-PM said, thems the breaks .

Rosa_Damascena

The variation in quality and volume never fails to surprise me.

I went to a high-end bakery the other day and got a reasonably big TGTG bag of cakes and pastries for £5. I probably wouldn't have spent £5 on them ordinarily, but I had family coming over and thought it might be a nice Saturday afternoon treat, and I was right, it was. It was cake at its best: light, fluffy, not overly-sweet and no trace of the taste of egg.

I then came across a last-minute TGTG from a local bakery yesterday morning and was intrigued as to £3.34 would get me. Answer, a MASSIVE bag of cakes and pastries (15) and 2 big loaves, clearly from the previous day as the cakes were without exception they were stale. Juxtaposed to Friday's purchase, there was no comparison - all were given away.

jon81uk

Rosa_Damascena said:

The variation in quality and volume never fails to surprise me.

I went to a high-end bakery the other day and got a reasonably big TGTG bag of cakes and pastries for £5. I probably wouldn't have spent £5 on them ordinarily, but I had family coming over and thought it might be a nice Saturday afternoon treat, and I was right, it was. It was cake at its best: light, fluffy, not overly-sweet and no trace of the taste of egg.

I then came across a last-minute TGTG from a local bakery yesterday morning and was intrigued as to £3.34 would get me. Answer, a MASSIVE bag of cakes and pastries (15) and 2 big loaves, clearly from the previous day as the cakes were without exception they were stale. Juxtaposed to Friday's purchase, there was no comparison - all were given away.

I wouldn't have ever thought pastries collected from a service offering what would normally go to waste would be good in the morning, surely it was obvious they'd be from the night before? Sounds like that bakery should only offer bags for collection in the evening.

Rosa_Damascena

jon81uk said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

The variation in quality and volume never fails to surprise me.

I went to a high-end bakery the other day and got a reasonably big TGTG bag of cakes and pastries for £5. I probably wouldn't have spent £5 on them ordinarily, but I had family coming over and thought it might be a nice Saturday afternoon treat, and I was right, it was. It was cake at its best: light, fluffy, not overly-sweet and no trace of the taste of egg.

I then came across a last-minute TGTG from a local bakery yesterday morning and was intrigued as to £3.34 would get me. Answer, a MASSIVE bag of cakes and pastries (15) and 2 big loaves, clearly from the previous day as the cakes were without exception they were stale. Juxtaposed to Friday's purchase, there was no comparison - all were given away.

I wouldn't have ever thought pastries collected from a service offering what would normally go to waste would be good in the morning, surely it was obvious they'd be from the night before? Sounds like that bakery should only offer bags for collection in the evening.

The pastries were much better than the cakes, I sampled a tiny sliver of the cake and was utterly repulsed. I often keep pastries in an airtight container for a couple of days and they stay perfectly fresh.