Inflation may be cooling somewhat, but higher food and restaurant prices will remain.
What if you could get a company’s leftover food for cheap?
Think about it: When shops, restaurants or bakeries have food left over at the end of the day, much of it ends up in the trash.
However, with the help of some new apps, they can sell some of that surplus food and save money at the same time.
Baker sells leftover cakes and fruit at a steep discount
LaDawn Spivery, owner of a bakery called Sweets by LaDawn, is doing everything she can to sell her surplus food.
She shows us a treat made from one day’s food surplus: a brownie parfait.
Several times a week, she hands out “surprise bags” of cupcakes, cookies, fruit and more at greatly reduced prices. These are leftovers that she used to throw away.
“We have a lot of waste from leftover pineapples, honeydew melons and strawberries,” she said.
Now she sells these treats through the app Too Good to Go, which helps you rescue food from cafes, bakeries or restaurants.
One of their latest offers: a surprise bag of fruit, cupcakes, brownies and more valued at $18 for just $5.99.
Janee Ward is a Too Good to Go customer.
“I usually get up in the morning just to see what’s out there,” she said.
She is always looking for offers that change daily.
“You just have to catch it,” Ward said.
In addition to “Too Good to Go”, there are other apps on the topic of food waste:
- Flashfood: Here you can order food shortly before its best-before date with up to 50% discount and pick it up at your local supermarket.
- Market of outsiders
- oil
But keep in mind that you don’t always know exactly what you’re getting. That’s why they’re called “mystery bags.”
And the apps may not yet be available in your region.
Flashfood, for example, primarily supplies the Midwest and East Coast.
However, Too Good to Go is expanding nationwide thanks to a partnership with Whole Foods.
Sarah Soteroff of Too Good to Go said, “We’re growing every day. We have about 21,000 partners across the country rescuing food with us, and that number is growing and growing.”
Ultimately, you are helping to avoid waste and doing great business at the same time.
At Sweets by LaDawn, you get “what we think is worth $18,” says Spivery, “for $6.”
So try a surplus food app and don’t waste money that way.
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