A MUM-of-four has managed to bag a grocery shop worth £93 for just a tenner using a nifty food waste app.
Sarah Whitfield, 31, from Warrington, used the Too Good To Go app to save a whopping £83.70 on shopping staples from Hovis bread to Kellogg’s cereal.
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The Too Good To Go app works by letting you know which local cafes, restaurants, shops and supermarkets are set to throw away unsold food each day.
The food is sold at a discounted price, so shoppers can save themselves a small fortune on their grocery bill if they sign up to the app.
You can’t choose what you get from retailers though – instead, you’ll be able to book a “mystery box” full of whatever food the retailer doesn’t sell that day.
Sarah bagged her haul from a local store called The Bridge Hub, and shared her massive saving with the LatestDeals.co.uk community.
What came in the £10 mystery box?
THE 36 items that came in Sarah’s mystery box were valued at £93.70 in total.
- Four bags of potatoes worth £3.60
- Bag of cabbage valued at £1
- Two spring onion bunches worth £1.50
- Bag of tangerines worth 89p regularly
- Three boxes of Be Kind bars normally worth £9
- Jack’s apple pies costing £1.10 normally
- Brownie mix worth £1.99
- One loaf of Hovis white bread usually costing £1.09
- Old El Paso Kit and two wraps valued at £6.60
- A pack of cheese strings worth £1
- Mozzarella sticks worth £2
- Eat Lean cheese usually costing £2.50
- Cheddar cheese normally worth £1.50
- One carton of Oatly milk worth £1.80
- 2kg of venison bolognese costing £20 regularly
- 1.25kg of Dr Wills BBQ sauce which normally costs £16
- Mince worth £3.50
- Three packs of Blakeman’s sausages that are normally £5.97 each
- Tub of pate worth 45p normally
- Grapefruit juice costing £1.63 usually
- Kelloggs cereal valued at £3
- Oppo ice cream worth £3 normally.
She got 36 items in her mystery box, making each item worth around 27p on average.
The savvy saver received a selection of vegetables, bread and cakes, cheeses and even venison bolognese.
The veggies alone cost £2.16, but would have usually cost £7 to buy at the supermarket.
All the items would have normally cost her £93.70 in total, but she spent just £10.
Sarah said the Too Good To Go app is “really good for bargains and discounts”.
How does Too Good To Go work?
TOO Good To Go can be downloaded for free on Google Play or the App Store.
The idea is to fight food waste, so you’re paying for food that is either close to its sell-by date, or that the retailer couldn’t sell.
You don’t get to choose what’s in your food box, so each time it is a complete mystery in terms of the contents.
Shoppers can search for restaurants or supermarkets on a map system in the app, so you can work out what’s near by.
Once you’ve found somewhere tasty, order your box and then pick it up later at the allotted time – but once they’re gone they’re gone.
She added: “We are a family of six so it all goes quite quickly.
“Anything we don’t use straight away gets frozen or anything we won’t eat gets given to family and friends.”
Sarah lucked out with the find as her box contained some pricey items – but savings might not always be this good, as it’s pot luck what you get.
Tom Church, Co-Founder of LatestDeals.co.uk, said: ‘The best thing about mystery bags and boxes is that anyone can get them – all you need is a smartphone and the Too Good To Go app.’
“Don’t forget to keep refreshing the app throughout the day to see if any new bags appear!”
There are other food waste apps you can use too like No Waste, Olio, Kitche and Karma, they all work in slightly different ways but promise to help reduce food waste and your bills when it comes to grocery shopping.
For example, Tesco shoppers can even bag food for free if they use the Olio app.
A Greggs fan shared how she got £11.45 worth of treats for £2.59 with the same food waste app.
Meanwhile another shopper managed to bag a huge food haul including six packets of cheese for just £3 from Morrisons using the app.
Another revealed how they nabbed 13 doughnuts and two baguettes for just £2.59 by the same means.
