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?

We regularly get the Sushi bag from Sainsbury’s and that’s great! £15+ worth for £5

Yes!!!🤣 Don't think you'd want chicken breasts in your on-board luggage!

We get one from a local sandwich shop once a week for £5 and it does us with lunches for a week.

Last week was:
2 x hot wraps
2 x sandwiches
4 x sausage rolls
2 x pasties
4 x individual lasagnas
pack of cookies and 4 doughnuts

We ate the sandwiches, cookies and doughnuts that evening/the next day and froze the rest. Just reheat it in the oven from frozen when we are at home.

There’s only a Greggs and a small supermarket that does it where I live, the Greggs ones all need to be picked up between 7am-7.30am so I never bother. I did try the supermarket one once but it wasn’t good enough for me to get another.

If I’m in my nearest big town I always check
it though. Often the pick up times are later in the day when I won’t be there but occasionally I strike gold. A local chain of bars are on it and I once got a treat box from them thinking I might get a few scones or cakes. I got 15 ginger puddings, which they sell for £8.95 each, for £5! Not necessarily ideal I admit but there was a family dinner the next day so we took them along to that and what was left kept well in the fridge for a day or two. Would definitely try them again if there was something else like that coming up.

It must be great if you live in a major city, I look anytime we’re away and am amazed by how many places use it, local independent shops and cafes, not just the big chains.

I have bought loads of 2G2G bags in the last couple of years. I have found that they vary a lot, but the best ones are fantastic.

Costa & Starbucks are usually poor. In my experience you tend to get stale pastries & the crappy vegan sandwiches which they have to offer, but nobody buys.

Supermarkets are a complete lottery. You can get anything. The worst one I had was from Morrisons. A huge bag full of the rubbish bruised, wilted fruit & veg which they couldn’t give away on the yellow sticker shelf. Most of it went in the bin.

Greggs are fantastic value. As a minimum, you can expect a couple of sandwiches, cakes or donuts etc and a couple of sausage rolls for your £2.59.

Pret is usually excellent. The last bag I got contained a chicken salad, a yummy breakfast muesli pot, 4 different sandwiches and two croissants. All for £5.

The best bag I ever had was from a motorway service station supermarket. It was full of meat, salmon fillets, pizzas, ready meals & puddings. At least £40 worth for £5.

My Starbucks gave 2 muffins, 2 bacon rolls, 2 cheese toasties. They sell savoury stuff too.

DP uses it a lot, and it works well for him on late shifts (police officer). He always seems to end up with huge amounts of food, which he often shares with his colleagues.

I keep meaning to try it but haven't got around to it yet.

Love me a bit of older foof.

I think it depends on where you live! Here there are a bunch I don’t use, one we like but it is 9-10pm so we only do it every few months and a few that are great but really competitive. I don’t look at the app often anymore. I have friends in bigger cities and it’s great. They check the neighbourhoods they’ll be in and get takeout a few times a week. We have another app, flashfood, for groceries and they upload pics of what they have. Sometimes we get all our produce from $5 boxes.

Worth having a look at the delivery tab. They now do parcels of cupboard items. Not always good bargains, worth doing your research. But at least you know what you're getting.

It's a bit silly for a M&S selling normal food at arrivals at any airport. Ok for milk. But most people, including myself get a takeaway/delivery or go to a place en route to home or once, they are home, get changed and out to the nearest pub as in holiday mood still.

I would love to use TGTG more but the 10pm and later pick up times, most are in the city centre - don't want to be there that time of night.

Or in other areas where parking is awful. Looked at streetview and think, nah.

vegetables are absolutely fine
in fact i thought they talked about removing the best before date?

They sort have. But its less obvious. Asda and Tesco use letters of the alphabet A=Jan to L=Dec. So stuff in the shops today will have dates around D16 (April 16th).

Aldi and Lidl use a week/day code. So, the bigger the number, the longer the date. At the moment we are week 15 so things will be dated like 1505 or 1601.

We use it sometimes. From experience - in our area it is useless to go to any of the smaller supermarkets. The first time we went to Aldi we got the most fantastic box! 3 punnets of strawberries, 2 punnets of apricots, potatoes, apples, a pepper, a few tomatoes and some other random veg, plus a couple of ready meals (not to our taste) and a couple of other things I think (it was last summer). Since then we have reserved, and gone to pick up, 3 more TGTG bags/boxes from Aldi and each time we have got all the way there and been told they don't have anything. The only big supermarket that does it here is Morrisons. We have picked up a few bakery bags - fine if you have a freezer, and a cafe bag which was well worth the money but full of sweet things we don't normally eat so we won't bother again.

I don't care how much others have paid for foof, I want my foof fresh as possible.

Is this the Sushi Gourmet inside Sainsbury? I went on Saturday hoping for a huge haul as they were closed on Sunday. Got two boxes of maki rolls. Really disappointed as they had a lot of sushi on the shelf expiring that day.

Yeah! We’ve always been really lucky. Maybe they sold lots of bags and the other sushi was going into those?

I love TGTG! You can’t rely on it for a meal but if you can afford to take a risk with a few £ and aren’t fussy sometimes you can get some brilliant bargains.

The average ratings on the app are a good guide - anything under 4.0 I won’t bother with.

i like it for treat food places I wouldn’t normally buy from like posh bakeries

Krispy Kreme typically let you pick out half a dozen donuts for about £5.

Pret and Leon are both generally good.

i’ve had some really good value sushi and poke bowls

M&S can be amazing or can be a load of sandwiches.

There are definitely no guarantees you’ll get anything that will approximate a meal and you need a bit of flexibility in how and when you might eat what you get. But I’ve had dozens and dozens of bags and only had a couple that were truly disappointing..

Kale can be frozen as it is to use in soup or smoothies.
freeze in the bag then gently scrunch to break it down smaller.

Kale and mushroom soup: chopped onion, as much or little as you like. Mushrooms, chopped. Sauté together. Add kale, as much as you want and stock. Cook for just a few minutes and purée. If you like it thicker add a diced potato or two and cook with the stock before adding the kale.

Another recipe for kale.

Fry off some chopped bacon (or turkey rashers or veggie alternative) then add half a bag of kale, stir fry for 3-4 minutes. Add a tin of drained butter beans, stir through for 2 minutes. Then add halved small tomatoes for a min. Add optional crushed chillis. Serve.

The best (and only) recipe for kale. Shred kale finely, tip into bin.

Disclaimer - I'm a super taster and kale is far too bitter for me to eat.

I love kale but not savoy cabbage