PEOPLE are just realising you can pick up cheap bakery items through a little-known food waste app.
The Too Good to Go app lets you rescue end-of-day food items from cafes, restaurants, shops and supermarkets that would otherwise go in the bin.
You can use it to pick up discounted or even free food nearby.
But some shoppers are only just realising you can use it to pick up food from Cooplands Bakery.
Posting on the Latest Deals, Extreme Couponing and Bargains Group, one fan said: “Cooplands in Wakefield never disappoints with the £3 too good to go bags.”
But one shopper commented saying: “I didn’t realise our Cooplands in Wakey did it.”
Meanwhile, a second pastry fan added: “I always miss out on the Coopland ones. But good deal.”
It comes after the chain closed a number of its bakeries across the North-East of England.
It closed nine locations including Scarborough, Berwick Hills, Skelton and Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The Too Good to Go app works by taking food that is due to be thrown out and passing it on to consumers for free or at a discounted rate.
There are currently 13 million people who use the app across the UK with over 26,000 businesses providing food.
You can pick up items from chains such as Greggs, Costa and Morrisons and even Harvester and Yo! Sushi.
All you have to do is download and set your location on the app and then choose from nearby stores listing their unsold food.
Listings show how much a bag of food costs and how many are left as well as where you need to pick it up.
The bags you pick up are always different as it depends on what a retailer hasn’t sold – so you’re guaranteed to get everything you want.
Beyond Too Good to Go, there’s 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.
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.
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