AIBU to think Too Good To Go is mostly disappointing?

I had a really good Gail's bag this week. For the price of a loaf of sourdough I got the sourdough I was hoping for, two pastries, a cake, and a boxed salad. We're a family of four adults so it all gets eaten.

Tend to see if any available if we would be picking up a sandwich to eat on the train, or if our local sandwich shop has one on days when we are both at home and taking a late lunch. Have occasionally had a duff bag but usually get enough for lunch for 2. If going to be home late and may otherwise have ordered a takeaway we have once or twice got a bag from the local chippy - had a duff bag which was all sausages and weird donner meat and no chips, and one which had 3 large fish, couple of fishcakes and enough chips to feed a small army!
Best bag by far was the m and S plants and flower bag. Huge bouquet and a large pot of 4 orchid plants for a fiver! Bouquet was nice for about a week and the orchids - which were looking sorry for themselves - have all developed new buds. Very happy with that!

Inspired by this thread, I remembered that I signed up to the app many years ago. I've since moved and never looked to see what is local. This week I've had:

-Breakfast buffet from a Sheraton hotel. £6.07. 2 containers. 1 with 6 bacon rashers and 2 sausages. The other had baked beans, scrambled egg and 3 hash browns.

-Yo sushi kiosk from inside a larger tesco. £6.75. 1 packet seafood sushi, 1 chicken/noodle salad and a smaller rice/tofu thing. She took them fresh from the counter, not yellow sticker ones, and the total would have been £16.90!

-Morrisons grocery bag. £4.49. Everything was best before yesterday and all yellow stickered. 1 loaf sourdough and 1 loaf farmhouse bread.
Bag of carrots, roasting potatoes, clementines, cauli/broccoli mix, iceburg lettuce. The yellow stickers came to only £2.33 and over half was slimy and rotten! The app does have an option to get a partial refund, but I won't be getting that one again.

The Lidl ones are the best. I don't usually manage to get one but if I do I always photograph the contents and text DM. 😂

The last one had (for €3):
750g Kiwi gold
750g plum tomatoes
6 Maribelle apples (organic)
750g mandarin (organic)
1 courgette
2 red peppers (organic)
500g chicory (organic)

I also got a prepackaged salad and a loaf of bread for 25 cents each. I often get 25 cent bargains, but you have to be a regular visitor though. I go most days on my way home from work.

@Bushmillsbabewow, on my app they are £5.50 for six! Not worth it imo

Have done it a Booths a couple of times. It’s been pretty good.

Enjoying this thread! Never tried TGTG but there’s a Greggs near my work so am tempted!

I've found it brilliant for two things.

Firstly, Greggs - never been disappointed - always a few things in there I'd want - maybe the odd thing I don't, but definitely always feel I get money's worth.

Secondly, hot breakfasts from hotels - again, never been disappointed. They usually give you a box and let you loose on the buffet once it's closed to guests. You need to be either close to home or ready to eat straight away as the hot food is pretty manky once you let it go cold.

Worst was a high class bakery where they just gave me a bag of 5 breakfast rolls, when they closed at 6pm - nothing else.

Really only bother with Krispy Kreme if I’m passing at the right time.

We used to get one from one of those food delivery places. Go puff I think it was. We had great bags from there because it was proper food - chicken breasts, salmon all sorts. I never see it now so I think they closed down.

I tried it in Manchester a few years ago and quality/quantity was very hit and miss, but what put me off was that in a couple of places the staff acted really weird about it and the last time it was a couple of teenage/ very young adult girls at an indie bakery, and they were laughing about how "gross" the left over stock was and giving me that mean girl side eye... Bleh. I was only using the app for a bit of fun and really didn't need the bad vibes or stale cake!

I used to get bags from the Gregg's in my local high street once every couple of weeks up until about a year ago. I stopped because I was constantly getting stuff I didn't like, i.e. sandwiches or rolls with ham in. I love tuna, and cheese and chicken,but did I ever get those? Hardly ever. Always bloody ham which I hate. It started to feel personal in the end so I stopped 😂

Mixed reviews here too, SW London suburbs, I've had a really good bag from a local Korean BBQ place, there was a lot,tasty, and good to try something new for not too much money, and I don't think you can go wrong really for a carvery dinner for 3.50 as long as its on your way/convenient, I sometimes do that as I pass one on way home from work when my children are with there dad and reserve one to have, but I've also had bags of like 4 croissants which don't even like! So hit and miss really, there's another place I'd like to try really but they don't put out the bags until 9.30 and theres no way im going out at that time for any bargain!

Mixed, really. Always seem to get tomatoes which we all detest. Looks like other people don't like them either as there's so many available.
Had some nice stuff from Yo! in Tesco when we've managed to hit the right time, the odd cakeaway box from one of the pubs has been a nice treat but it's generally very hit and miss and I don't really use it much nowadays.
I also don't like it that they only let you review when you're happy because I once went to an Aldi in a dodgy area and there was a fight with people being dragged by the hair outside, then some customer insidedecided he wasn't being served quick enough and joined in with a metal pole.
I did make sure i mentioned this the next time got a Too Good to go bag (from elsewhere) but haven't had one since

Then some TGTG are in undesirable areas which are 10pm or later collections.

One thing I have noticed. Get them when it’s raining/snowing and during school term time. As get less people going out for a coffee and something to eat.

I’m tempted to get an Aldi one. But seen on a FB group of TGTG that people had (in different bags)
. 23 bags of watercress
. 16 pots of coleslaw
. 11 pouches of fresh gravy
. 14 pots of Greek yoghurt (the 500g ones)

I will get 10 plus packs of stuff I don’t eat or can’t freeze

Leon and Pret were good when I lived in London. I rarely bother now - most bakery and coffee shops bags are just full of beige pastries that have seen better days - with the exception of Waterstones Cafe, I had a really good selection of sweet and savoury stuff from there a while back. I've got blood tests at 9:30am tomorrow and can't eat before I go so I am tempted to see if there is some breakfast stuff I can grab from somewhere on my walk home...

I have a friend who posts her TGTG hauls in a WhatsApp group, it’s usually from nice local bakeries. Cakes, pastries, sandwiches, sausage rolls etc… Same friend who is always joining new diet schemes. I wouldn’t want this kind of food in my house (I enjoy a coffee & croissant if I’m out).

Depends where you buy your TG2G bags - one garage we have bought from had nothing but salad bowls, but another garage had a mix of Sandwiches, Pies, Salad stuff like, Lettuce and tomatoes and indivudual cakes. DD has done Greggs and had a massive selection of sandwiches, donuts, pies and sausage rolls - good timing and very lucky as the next day it was their picnic lunch at the zoo.

One local bakery chain has amazing bags with loads of food. The national chains are fairly meh; I had one from Costa recently and it was all gluten free things and not much of it. My son lives near a city Greggs and seems to do quite well out of it. Our Aldi puts the boxes on display so you can see what you’re getting if they're not sold out.

My first one was from Greggs and I got a chicken and bacon baguette, cookies sausage rolls and an iced bun. It was downhill from there, every other bag has been disappointing

They do that's what I am schlepping out to collect at 8.30 tonight from Tesco.

To be fair I only live in a small town, but the couple of times I’ve used it it wasn’t great. Really fancied a roast but the food really was the dregs destined for the bin. I think I had a Costa one once, there wasn’t much in it. I think some people constantly check the app so I never got a chance at getting anything else.
I assume companies now try to cut down on food waste as there was a big hooha about it a couple of years ago, so maybe they don’t have much to give away anymore

We used to get the Aldi TGTG, until I picked up a box containing just 18 lemons and two packets of very wilted basil.
The local 'best before' shop was happy with them, though.

I live and work in the centre of Leeds and it’s mostly really really good. The cakes from the market are brilliant.