Too Good to Go, pointless?

[Runnersandtoms]

Anyone successfully use Too Good to Go? I like the idea of it but the times I've tried it, I've just found it annoying. The places that get offered round here are Starbucks, which is just buying a load of sweet stuff I don't need, or Aldi or Co-op. Thought Aldi might yield some useful stuff. Got a massive box including 4 bags of broccoli/cauliflower and two huge bags of kale. All dated the day of collection. Collection was at 9pm. How can anyone use that much veg within a day before it goes off? Plus got some ready-made sandwiches (something we'd never buy and have no use for). Surely they shouldn't be able to give you piles and piles of duplicate stuff?

Booths do a cut flowers one, £10 worth £30

It's certainly not as good as it used to be. We started using it about 4 or 5 years ago, businesses were just coming out of the pandemic and clearly found it harder to accurately order. The BP garage near us has M&S food and we got some very good value bags with meat, fish, cheese and pre-packed fruit. Morrisons you used to get a whole banana box packed with fruit/veg.

Recently it has definitely gone downhill and the last M&S/BP one I got was sandwiches only. I think stores are getting smarter with discounting earlier in the day so there isn't as much left, predicting demand better.

Supermarkets near me sell them themselves very very cheap in the evening - like 60p a bunch or something. They're often already wilted though. They reduce them by smaller amounts beforehand.

Our local garden centre does house plants and outdoor plant bags. £10. Worth £40.

Also - on what planet does broccoli/kale go "off" by the day after its best before date? Madness.

My DH gets bread from a deli near his work and freezes it.

4 bags of broccoli/cauliflower and two huge bags of kale. All dated the day of collection

I'd be delighted with this. You freeze it or chop it all up and make a massive soup.

We've always had excellent Morrisons bags but they're like gold dust. Huge bag of fruit and veg usually and always decent condition. We use, freeze or blend it and nothings ever gone to waste.

Once we had a gigantic box given to us instead of a bag and it was half full of asparagus and the other half full of raspberries and blueberries. We estimated it was worth about 80 quid, it was bloody fantastic.

I like the idea of it so have tried it 4 times in different places and they have all been rubbish, the supermarkets - Morrisons and Waitrose it was all pies and cakes which could be OK for some, while the Chinese was the worst I have ever tasted and my teens still regularly remind me of how bad it was while the cooked breakfast from hotel was poor. However I still have app and I may try again, hope triumphs over experience!

We tried a Gail’s one, it was £7 and supposed to have a minimum of £14. I had such high hopes after seeing other peoples on a FB group…
one beetroot salad pot
one overnight oats pot
tiny almond filo pastry thing
soho bun (also tiny)

that was it. I added it up and it would have been £14.10 so only just over the amount. The woman bagging it up used a calculator as she was doing it! And there was so much stuff left on the shelves.

I love TGTG bags. My adult son stayed recently, we picked one up from Dunelm cafe and he ate the whole thing. I wanted to freeze some!

Morrisons are the best, but hard to get in my area. Only two avaialable and it's a scramble at 9pm online to book one.

Coop, imo, bit rubbish. I've had them give me stuff off their shelves because they had nothing to put in the bag.

All our local florists are on TGTG, it isn’t only food

We've had a few from Greggs and very happy with them - a good variety.

We've also had hotel breakfast boxes a few times, which is basically going to a hotel once they've finished serving breakfast and you get a box you can take what you want from what's left of the breakfast buffet, which has also been good if we were away somewhere and didn't mind a late breakfast/brunch.

I had an amazing one from Greggs last year. There were a load of sandwiches, pastries and short baguettes (put those in the freezer). The sandwiches and pastries got split between 3 other households (DP’s 3 kids and their families) and fed our house for 2 days. For £4.50!

If you live in a smallish town it’s not great, the one independent cafe signed up here is sold out at 12 for that night, greggs ditto, costa is hit and miss (because the staff waltz out most nights with bags full) One was great, three sandwiches which were just right for dh and ds pack up and one cake and muffins, the other, with its egg and spinach sandwiches not so much. But if I go to Newcastle my phone is pinging non stop with bags. And family in Sheffield get excellent ones, plenty of bread and decent cakes, sausage rolls and pies.
Not tgtg but we once went in Sainsbury’s with (skint) son and there was fruit and veg box for 2 quid. Potatoes, onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, fresh herbs, scallions, oranges, apples, grapes and strawberries. Fed him and flat mates for a week.

It’s luck of the draw. I had a couple of fantastic bags from Greggs, with baguettes sausage rolls and cookies. Also had some disappointing bags from Costa (all vegan shit)

Have you got a community fridge near you? I use that loads - it's free and you get to choose what you want. We went last week and got some frozen Nandos chicken, eggs, sprouts, cabbage, bananas, strawberries, a couple of loaves of bread and a pack of hot cross buns - all perfectly edible although the baguettes needed freshening up in the oven. Our local one gets donations from M&S, Waitrose and Lidl, plus Nandos, a local bakery and others. It's not a food bank, it's basically the short dated stuff that they can't sell so give away to avoid food waste. Much better than Too Good To Go!

I’ve had 3 terrible Morrisons bags (all refunded) and one brilliant one.
Ive had a Morrisons cafe one too but it was tons of cake which DH took to work.
Ive had a Starbucks and Costco one but they were both disappointing and I think their sandwiches are horrible anyway.
I’ve tried a few Greggs places and I know the good one now. I got one Monday - pack of sausage rolls, a steak bake, a pasta lunch thing and 3 elcairs. I only do a few times a year though.

Ha, was thinking to myself yestrday they're usulayy not worth it!
I always end up with loads of tomatoes - we all detest them. Everybody else must too (except for Slimming World who are obsessed with the blasted things).
Occasioanally you get a good one from somewhere, but I don't want loads of cake so avoid those kind of places

I do the Krispy Kreme one every Monday with my kids - the one local to us lets you pick any 6!

Ours is really good, two of our local bakeries are on the app and getting one of theirs is incredible, loads of stuff for the freezer. I've also found the local Spar to be much better in terms of variety and quantity than Aldi is.

We had one tonight from what used to be Greggs but is now Bakery 79.

It had
4 8" sausage rolls
1 chocolate brownie premium doughnut which is twice the size of a normal one
1 yum yum
4 chocolate chunk cookies
1 ham salad baguette
1 Mexican chicken sub
1 steak bake
1 breakfast bake

It was 2.79 and the doughnut on its own is 3.79 so a bargain.

I'd be happy with loads of veg from a supermarket one, brilliant to freeze or for soup. We got 16 mangos once from Morrisons 😂

We got pret yesterday morning at 10.30

a sausage roll
a ham and cheese croissant
2 tubs of porridge

that fed me, toddler and baby while we were playing in the park :) we were very happy.

It's nice when it works. I stayed in a youth hostel with DC a few years ago, and some Dutch tourists came in one evening, having trawled the nearby participating TGTG stores for stuff and unpacked a veritable feast of pastries and other baked goods for all the guests to share after dinner. It was lovely.

Wenzels grab bags have been the best. Especially over the summer when got people round in the evening something in there for everyone.
Aldi I won't bother with again cause I got 10 tubs of hommous in my last 2 and nobody likes the stuff.

You freeze it.

Also stuff doesn't magically go off at midnight, and veg doesn't go off for ages after the BBD. If it looks ropey when you get the box, well you make soup at 9m and freeze it.