Too Good To Go app now delivers discounted food parcels to your door – including Heinz and Skinny Food Co
AN app that lets you buy food due to be binned at discounted rates is now doing delivery.
Too Good To Go has launched a food parcel service for the first time meaning shoppers can save money from their sofa.
Too Good to Go works by offering shoppers the chance to snap up perfectly fine to eat food that would otherwise be thrown out by supermarkets and fast food chains at a reduced cost.
Previously, shoppers could only get their products via the app by picking them in-branch.
But they can now order packages to their home with the launch of the new food parcel service.
Shoppers can nab everything from coffee, soups, sauces, sweets and pasta.
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How does it work?
Shoppers will have to download the Too Good to Go app via Google Play or the Apple App Store.
Once logged in, they have to click on the "delivery" tab where they can choose from a range of "surprise bags".
Savvy savers can pick mono-brand parcels, which come with a variety of items from one brand.
There are also themed parcels which come with one particular type of product inside like spices kits, pet food parcels or protein bundle.
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Once you've picked your parcel, you have to enter your delivery address and complete the purchase.
Once you've done this, you will receive a notification with a delivery time and the parcel should arrive with one to five days.
Sophie Trueman, country director at Too Good To Go UK and Ireland, said: "We’re so excited to launch Parcels, our newest way to make saving food both easy and fun.
"We're all about finding innovative, exciting ways to help our communities save perfectly good food across the world.
"With Too Good To Go Parcels now launching in the UK, we're offering another way for Britons to save food from going to waste."
OTHER FOOD WASTE APPS
There are a number of other food waste apps out there to choose from.
Karma is similar to Too Good to Go in that you search for nearby food based on your location.
However, the difference is that the app tells you what food you are getting instead of it being pot luck.
Meanwhile, Klitche keeps track of the food you bought from your supermarket shop and suggests recipes.
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It also warns you when items you've bought are getting close to their sell-by date.
There's also Olio which lets you share any of your own food that is nearing its sell-by date with neighbours.
How to save money on your food shop
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how you can save hundreds of pounds a year:
Odd boxes - plenty of retailers offer slightly misshapen fruit and veg or surplus food at a discounted price.
Lidl sells five kilos of fruit and veg for just £1.50 through its Waste Not scheme while Aldi shoppers can get Too Good to Go bags which contain £10 worth of all kinds of products for £3.30.
Sainsbury's also sells £2 "Taste Me, Don't Waste Me" fruit and veg boxes to help shoppers reduced food waste and save cash.
Food waste apps - food waste apps work by helping shops, cafes, restaurants and other businesses shift stock that is due to go out of date and passing it on to members of the public.
Some of the most notable ones include Too Good to Go and Olio.
Too Good to Go's app is free to sign up to and is used by millions of people across the UK, letting users buy food at a discount.
Olio works similarly, except users can collect both food and other household items for free from neighbours and businesses.
Yellow sticker bargains - yellow sticker bargains, sometimes orange and red in certain supermarkets, are a great way of getting food on the cheap.
But what time to head out to get the best deals varies depending on the retailer. You can see the best times for each supermarket here.
Super cheap bargains - sign up to bargain hunter Facebook groups like Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK where shoppers regularly post hauls they've found on the cheap, including food finds.
"Downshift" - you will almost always save money going for a supermarket's own-brand economy lines rather than premium brands.
The move to lower-tier ranges, also known as "downshifting" and hailed by consumer expert Martin Lewis, could save you hundreds of pounds a year on your food shop.
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