Food prices are just one of the UK's many rising costs - but one mum has explained an incredible way to save cash in the supermarket.
Kelly Cavill, 42, an administration manager and mum of two from Surrey, uses the Too Good To Go app to get discounted food.
Her latest bargain saw her bag £60 of food from brands like Waitrose and Morrisons for between £5 to £6.
The enormous Waitrose haul included pork sausages, a lemon tart, Thai chicken curry and sourdough pizza for a fraction of its usual cost.
Her Morrisons’ bag contained family size pasta ready meals, Gu desserts, ham, yoghurts, individual ready meals and salads.
Most items were Best Before or Use By on the day Kelly collected them, but she was able to freeze most products to avoid waste.
Kelly Cavill told money-saving community LatestDeals.co.uk : "I started using the Too Good To Go app around 18 months ago.
“I’d read about it in a news article about food waste on Facebook.
"During lockdown, there was very little we were permitted to do outside of the home and the Too Good To Go app became a real focus for me as food shopping was something that we were allowed to do.”
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Too Good To Go partners up with retailers and smaller, independent shops to sell “magic bags” of food that would otherwise be thrown out at the end of the day.
Prices start from around £2 for a bag. The only downside is you can’t choose what food you get in your Too Good To Go bag - it depends on what is available that day.
"I had managed to work out when my local Morrisons released its bags and I was so excited to reserve my first two bags,” said Kelly.
"As the contents of the bags are unknown until you collect them, it gave me something to look forward to for the next day and provided a welcome distraction from lockdown boredom.
"The first bags I got were priced at £3.09 each and for just over £6 the amount of food we got was insane. My first haul was over £58 worth of food – I couldn’t believe it.
"With two children at home, we got through everything. My mum was isolating during lockdown so I would often doorstep drop food off to her too.”
Kelly says she would plan meals around the contents of the bags so that nothing was wasted.
Sometimes she got so much in the bags that when lockdown restrictions were eased, she was able to donate food items to a local charity.
"I am a single working mum so I like to make our food budget stretch as far as I can and the Too Good To Go app allows us to eat well whilst making considerable savings,” said Kelly.
"My latest Waitrose haul was one bag priced at £5 and I got over £60 worth of food.
"I was able to freeze most of the items and shared the desserts that had to be eaten that day with my neighbours.
"The app has changed the way I look at food waste and my food shopping habits forever.”
