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Apr 2023
1:54pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
Have you rescued any Magic Bags today?
I've had the Too Good to Go app on my phone for a few months but not had any success with finding any Magic Bags of food that needed saving near me. If you've not come across it, local shops, cafes and pubs offer bags of unsold food at discounted prices as long as you can collect within a short window of time just before they close, usually.
Today I've reserved 2 bags from Cooplands bakery in our local little town, to be collected 3-3:15pm and 2 bags from a Starbucks in the middle of nowhere to be collected at 8:30-9pm. Cooplands cost £3 for £9 of food in each bag; Starbucks cost £4.50 for £13.50 worth of food in each.
I'll let you know what we get.
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Apr 2023
1:57pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
Our local Greene King pub offers left over roast dinners and a vegetarian version for £3.99 reduced from £8.99, but they've always sold out before I've spotted them.
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Apr 2023
1:59pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
Morrisons grocery bags are also snapped up before I see them. £10 of groceries for £3.09. I guess they will mostly be bakery items with some fresh fruit and veg perhaps.
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Apr 2023
3:43pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
2 x bags from Cooplands £3 each
Magic bag 1
Ham and cheese baguette - put in freezer
Easter doughnut - put in freezer
Apple pasty - put in the freezer
2 x mini cream sponges - eat today
2 x small egg custards - eat tomorrow
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Apr 2023
3:48pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
Magic bag #2
Ham salad bap - Geoff had for late lunch
2 x cream slices - that's a lot of cream and pastry...
2 x chocolate Danish pastries - put in the freezer
iced finger - put in the freezer
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Apr 2023
3:51pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
So very good value for money IF you like sweet treats. We'd have liked more savoury items but I guess they all got sold. As I don't do much baking these days, it's handy to have a few cakes in the freezer for when we have visitors (next week as it happens).
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Apr 2023
3:55pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
There were 4 other people who were collecting the Magic Bags at 3pm so there was quite a bit of food to rehome today.
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Apr 2023
4:43pm, 7 Apr 2023
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Gromit
Ssssshhhh don’t tell everyone 😂😂😂😜 I’ve had it a while, bags I get regularly are Costa and Greggs … the Costa bags are the best value , often 3 cheese toastie , 2 or 3 sausage or fake sausage cobs , cakes , sometimes smoothies too … usually a couple of days worth of packed
Lunches for work for £3 👏
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Apr 2023
4:46pm, 7 Apr 2023
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Nellers
There's a cheese and ham toastie int he fridge fromt eh BP garage magic bag we got last night.
We do them fairly often (maybe twice a week) as it's a short walk down to collect them.
It varies massively in terms of value. We had a bag which was just potatoes once. At the other end of the scale we've had a whole roast chicken, salad pot and ready meal.
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Apr 2023
7:19pm, 7 Apr 2023
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GimmeMedals
Wondering what's in the bag is all part of the excitement - a bag of just potatoes. I'd have been gutted 😂
Our Costa hardly ever has bags available, but I do check often!
Update - Starbucks doesn't have enough surplus food so has cancelled my order. Last week we got a cheese and ham GF panini, a cheese and ham croissant, a blueberry muffin and an almond and raspberry mini loaf in our bag for £4.50
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Welsh Cakes
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