Morrisons launches Too good to go 'Magic Bags' in all 397 cafes - £2.99 / Market Kitchen breakfast Magic Bags £2.50 / Evening bags £4

Anytime your not statisified what ANY too good to go bag,send them a brief outline of your complaint and an image of the the magic bag. They almost always refund your money,as long as the complaint is valid!

I've used Too Good To Go for their end of shelf life fruit/veg/bakery bag and you do get good value for money - our local store always has excess in fruit which we end up using for smoothies. Odd treat at times like cookies/muffins as well

Sounds like a great idea! Love that it stops waste. It should be prioritised for those in need but I have no idea how you could make that happen.

Toby cavery offers the best bags on the app but the 21:20 pickup time is mental, get a large amount of food.

To cut food waste, companies can partner with TGTG and/or Olio. I prefer Olio - all items are free and you can pick exactly what you want, unlike TGTG. I hope Olio grows bigger than TGTG.

The morrisons where we live is a joke. I ordered these. I got a hot bag and a cold food bag. The hot bag was OK, sausages bacon, that kind of thing, but very small amount of food. The cold bag was a gone off boiled egg salad, a sour tasting éclair, the cream had gone bad, a tuna sandwich which was fit for the bin. I wouldn't go back, but hopefully other morrisons are better.

wee bit risky as possible some foods been sitting out all day espcially hot food thats gone cold just watch your bellys

Whilst anything that reduces the amount of food being wasted is a good thing, it is just worth highlighting the impact of food retailers starting to sell excess products in this way on the food banks and community food larders which rely on this food being provided and donated.

Our local one has already warned that it is starting to see a change as more of this food is being sold by supermarkets for their own financial gain in these bags/ boxes. At the end of the day, it is their food that they have paid suppliers for and they can do with it what they choose, but the move from supplying food banks etc to people who are perhaps able to pay for food just picking up a bit of a bargain doesn't sit well at the moment. Others may disagree.

Dear Morrisons and other SMs,
here's a revolutionary idea: make this available for free to homeless and people in need instead of trying to minimise losses and pretending to tackle waste which you produce by overcrowding your shelves. (edited)

If they charged less in the first place there wouldn't be anything left over. Must admit used the app last week at our local carvery . Filled a box full of meat , yorkshire puds, brussel sprouts , stuffing and roasties . It lasted me 3 days (edited)

I got a “tgtg” bag from Morrisons once. While I think the concept is excellent, and I got a big bag of veg for approx £1.50 all the items in it had the yellow “whoops” stickers on, so if I’d gone to store and bought them individually it would have cost me about 50p. Plus you can only collect it in a certain time window, so I waited all day to buy a loaf of reduced veg for twice the price it was actually selling for. 🤦‍♂️

It's best when you go to a store like SPAR. No bag prepped so they have to search the store for yellow stickers, with people waiting behind you in the queue. (edited)

We've tried one of each box, they weren't great. The groceries box contained 4 bags of carrots, 2 punnets of ice white strawberries that I doubt ever went out on a shelf, 3 packs of blueberries (some starting to go mouldy), some rotten pomegranates and some dried out satsumas. Basically paid £3 for £1.80 worth of carrots and a load of fruit that was only fit for the bin.

The hot food wasn't much better. Half a dried out roast chicken, saved a bit by the small pot of gravy included. A small pot of beans, one with mushy peas, 3 sausages, a big pile of mash which was ok, then a couple of bits of the most dried out, overcooked bacon and mushroom I've seen in my life. Their cafe food is pretty awful to begin with though so I shouldn't have been too surprised. You could have fed 4 with it but feeding 4 for £3 isn't a massive feat anyway.

The cold one was slightly better, 6 finger sandwiches and a selection of 6 pastries.

I think it's really branch dependent on how good they are, my sister in law in the next town overall has had a couple of grocery boxes with a massive and varied selection of stuff. She got a cold food one with two of the afternoon tea trays in it that are usually about a tenner each.

It'd be better if they just gave this stuff away to a food bank but I remember someone telling me there's a reason why they can't.

Just stop the staff from getting first dibs on the yellow sticker food I say

Ours has also been very good value ,(l think it's because they are normally so expensive now that they have a lot of food left over),apart from one week when there were 13 bags of courgettes and 20 cucumbers but l managed to give them away on Olio app.

Such a gamble this app. Dont dare go to Costa unless your a vegetarian that likes fake meat.

I find the veg is excellent for soups or for a good pot casserole.

You can freeze the soup for next time.

You would not tell the difference !

It is a shame that it has taken a war in Ukraine / cost of living crisis etc to understand the importance of food waste.

For people like myself , disabled, housebound and only a basic phone without apps, these are rather 'pie in the sky'! Surely if you can afford a phone with apps you can afford to pay full price at a cafe

Booked on too good to go last week, turned up at the local Morrisons co-incidentally with someone else who also booked one on too good to go. Woman in the Cafe said they had never heard of it and had another two people asking also that day! Hope they have told the cafes!

I actually just got one at our local Morrison's today Got 2 sandwich selections including a packet of crisps originally retailing at £3.49 each, a chocolate muffin, slice of fruitcake and a chocolate cornflakes cake with sprinkles. I think that's pretty decent for 3 quid.