Has anyone here used Too Good To Go?

jimpwarsop

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a Morrison's Magic bag (£3.09) at store on my long journey home this evening which was good value: 

I whizzed round the store before I picked it up and did a YS shop for £5. For comparison: 

The magic bag is better value! 

Do you like beans ?

Local to me Co ops are good, problem is I have to drive, I'll wait until the better weather if I'm not passing.

GaleSF63

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a Morrison's Magic bag (£3.09) at store on my long journey home this evening which was good value: 

I whizzed round the store before I picked it up and did a YS shop for £5. For comparison: 

The magic bag is better value! 

Maybe, but they both look delicious and very good value!

Rosa_Damascena

jimpwarsop said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

I bought a Morrison's Magic bag (£3.09) at store on my long journey home this evening which was good value: 

I whizzed round the store before I picked it up and did a YS shop for £5. For comparison: 

The magic bag is better value! 

Do you like beans ?

Neither here nor there to me, but mum is very fond of them! She'll top and tail them before freezing. In fact she is the lucky recipient of all the fresh f&v and dairy. I'm a sucker for bread products and so is my freezer.

kevinburrow

I'vr heard some who use it say it's not that reliable

briskbeats

Three weeks ago, I got a magic bag (box) from a factory that makes frozen desserts. Got 3 cheesecakes - a mint one, which was for Christmas, think it was Iceland, a Toblerone and an Aldi specially selected one (it had a red fruit topping). Then a sticky toffee pudding (in a plain box with a sticker with ingredients for Natasha's law) and a chocolate caramel pudding. £3.99. Each cake costs £2.25-£3.

Some of the toppings were a bit battered. Will recommend to friends who cater for their large families over Christmas. One of them has family all with sweet teeth so doesn't matter what they get.

jon81uk

hangryconsumer said:

pumpkin89 said:

To be fair, they are very upfront that the point of it is to reduce food waste, not to save consumers money.

Whilst I agree with this, it should also NOT be to make companies profit which in my experience it seems like they do.

I've used this a few times whilst out and about and have had varied experiences.

• Pret A Manger £4 for macNcheese, wrap and a 2 pastries
  
• Delice de France £4 for 3 things (2 pastries and 1 baguette)
  
• Ritazza £4 for 3 things (1 panini and 2 pastries)
• Train station cafe £4 for 3 things (soggy pannini, soggy cheese toastie and 1 pastry)
• Costa (mostly stuff I didn't like, I can barely remember and it went in the bin)
  

If I went to a Tesco or Sainsburys (well within the vicinity of any of those retailers) then I would be paying 80p for a pastry and it would generally be fresh and not stale.

If you would rather pay full price for fresh pastries at Tesco, why keep ordering the Too Good to Go bags full of stale ones from coffee shops?

I used to work at a coffee shop and would take pastries home. Would never think of paying for the stale croissants!

sammyjammy

I gave quite a bit of mine away but even then was good value, I will stick to the supermarket bags because if I start with the coffee shop and pastry types I'll be piling on the weight!

A part of me feels bad for taking them though, I want to tell people that are using foodbanks about it.

briskbeats

Don't understand why the Greggs and Costa nearest to me - less than 7 min walk away, are not part of TGTG. Yet the others further afield - within 7 miles are.

p00hsticks

briskbeats said:

Don't understand why the Greggs and Costa nearest to me - less than 7 min walk away, are not part of TGTG. Yet the others further afield - within 7 miles are.

It may be that they are better at stock control so usually have very little left over, or they may already be involved in some other schemes - I put the app on my phone but found we have very few participants round here (just a couple of SPAR petrol statino shops), but then we do have a Community Fridge that the major supermarkets donate to.

jon81uk

sammyjammy said:

A part of me feels bad for taking them though, I want to tell people that are using foodbanks about it.

For a lot of foodbank users the cost of getting to those stores at the time required won't be worth it, let alone paying for the stale food. Also the risk that what they receive isn't something they would eat or use.