I got over £30 worth of supermarket food for £2 – here’s how you can do it too

A SAVVY shopper has explained however she bought implicit £30 worthy of nutrient astatine a large supermarket for conscionable £2.

The lawsuit utilized Too Good To Go to get the discounted goodies from her section Morrisons.

The app, which connects customers with restaurants and cafes that person surplus food, aims to fight food waste.

Customers tin get bags of nutrient from companies for a reduced price.

Most of the time, they lone observe the content of the container erstwhile they cod it from the business.

Explaining however she got the Morrisons goodies, the shopper said connected Facebook: "Can’t kick astatine what I got for £2 astatine Morrisons.

"There's present astatine slightest £30 of bread/baked goods successful my freezer that volition decidedly last my location until the caller year."

The crate of baked goods included respective loaves of bread, packs of crumpets, bagels and buns.

Responding to the post, 1 idiosyncratic said: "That's a year's worthy of nutrient for me."

Over 95 cardinal radical usage the Too Good To Go app around the world.

How does Too Good To Go work?

To usage Too Good To Go, download its app connected your smartphone and make an account.

You tin past prime your country by entering your determination and driblet the pin connected wherever you'll beryllium picking up your surplus food bags.

On the app, you tin prime the region you'd beryllium consenting to travel, based connected whether you'll beryllium walking, using public transport or driving.

The app volition past amusement you the Too Good To Go locations disposable successful your area.

These are grouped successful categories including supermarkets, groceries and baked goods.

There are besides options to cod nutrient consecutive away, oregon aboriginal for dinner.

You tin past scroll done the app to spot what's disposable and click "see all" to cheque each the options wrong a category.

Too Good To Go volition past archer you however overmuch you can save with each astonishment bag.

Prices usually scope betwixt £2 and £6, with shoppers saving astatine slightest 30% connected each order.

When clicking connected a listing, you volition get accusation connected the nonstop determination of the cafe, edifice oregon supermarket, arsenic good arsenic postulation times available, and the terms of the bag.

The listing besides shows the mean standing different users person fixed that particular business.

Once you've decided what you privation to prime up, simply click the "reserve" fastener to guarantee it is assigned to you.

You'll beryllium asked to adhd your slope details to corroborate the preservation and you'll past person an email including an invoice and a clip model for your collection.

Then spell to the store astatine the assigned time, amusement your postulation connected the app to a unit subordinate and bask your discounted surplus food.

Other schemes to debar nutrient waste

In the UK, different fashionable app that helps trim nutrient discarded is Olio.

The escaped app allows residents to springiness away, collect, get oregon lend things for escaped - not conscionable food, but besides different utile items for the home, covering oregon unwanted gifts.

Volunteers tin besides cod surplus nutrient from supermarkets and database it connected the app, wherever different users tin petition what they request - and it's each wholly free.

Other apps see Karma, which is akin to Too Good To Go arsenic it enables users to rescue caller nutrient from restaurants, bakeries, cafes and wholesalers that would person different been thrown away.

The main quality betwixt Karma and Too Good To Go is that alternatively than giving a random selection, the erstwhile shows precisely what shoppers volition person successful their surplus nutrient bags.

Another app, FoodCloud, connects supermarkets with charities and assemblage groups crossed the UK and Ireland.

This includes stateless shelters and household enactment services.

It is estimated that astir 9.5 cardinal tonnes of nutrient are wasted successful the UK each year.

According to Waste Managed, the apical 5 astir wasted foods are bread, potatoes, milk, bananas, crockery and vegetables.

These apps can trim nutrient discarded wide portion allowing you to prevention money, but yet it's up to each idiosyncratic to guarantee they lone bargain what they request and devour what they bargain truthful that nutrient doesn't extremity up successful the bin.