I work in a food service job. Coffee Chains/bakeries and places like this are told to put an amount equal to 15-20 retail price. If there is a large amount of waste for that particular day and they are feeling generous they will add more to reduce waste. Sometimes if you just go in and ask towards the end of the day, and there is a large amount of waste, some places will give out things on the house to reduce waste. But I used to work for costa, if you have no cakes, chances are all the cakes were opened on that day and no cake has a 1 day shelf life. Muffins are 48 hours and some cakes have a shelf life of 5 days so if I were you, avoid the cakes from costa
I used to work in a Warrens (basically Cornish Greggs) and we had Too Good To Go- from what I remember here's how it works on the workers side of things. We got a number of bags we needed to make up (for us this was like 3-4 bags) and we would exclusively put sandwiches etc going out of date that day, and any pastries/baked goods that have exceeded their shelf life of 2 days. There was also a strict policy from my work that we could not put food in there that was still sellable, so it was kind of just the last pickings left over and rarely anything that exciting. It was extremely rare for us to have sausage rolls or bakes left over especially, usually our bags were full of sandwiches and belgian buns, kind of in line with what your Greggs bag ended up as. It 100% depends on the day and how many bags we needed to make, sometimes we'd only have to make one bag and we would have a tonne to go in there, other days we'd have multiple bags with barely enough for 3 items each. Luck of the draw tbh! Great video btw c:
Oh no fellow Cornishman spotted! Tried it one time with my local Warrens, got 3 medium steak and bacon bite for £4 I think it was... Only day I ever did it because I scranned them all in one day and realised I'd get fucking fat if I didn't delete the app immediately 😂
Thanks for this! Genuinely fascinating to know and I guessed as much! Seems like my friends bag must have had a slow couple of selling days to give him so much!!
@@SamWilder.Maybe some days are better than others. I've only watched a few of your videos have you done a video where you buy solely from reduced areas? Where I live Tunbridge Wells our Boots used to reduce their meal deal food items to 50p on Sundays...really good value for pretty good sandwiches, wraps, pasta salads...sadly they've stopped doing this 😢
I do TGTG at my place of work and we have a value of what the items in the bag should come to. It is basically leftovers but if we feel we cant fill the boxes properly do have to cancle them on the app. Keep the videos coming! Love watching them, recent subscriber over here!
you did well with the Costa bag- their usual policy is 3 items per bag (as is Starbucks) The costa bag I got was a ham and cheese toastie, a small brownie and a tuna sandwich. Worth what I paid for it but not amazing. We have Pound Bakery nearby their bags are amazing, especially if the manager gets carried away :)
When I worked at Greggs they just told me to put in any sandwiches, donuts, bakes that were leftover and if there were any biscuits that were going to be leftover to put all of those in too
Wenzels which is a local West London bakery chain similar to Greggs does really good TGTG, always with 3-4 sandwiches, pastries, cakes and doughnuts, plus often a huge loaf of bread as well.
Good challenge. You should do more of these. . My good to go bag I got from greggs last week was fantastic. The best one that I got. When I was handed the bag, i knew it was going to be. a good one. . In my bag were, 2x chicken bake 4pack sausage roll Roast chicken and bacon vlub Mexican chicken oval 2 yums 2 caramel custard doughnuts 2 jam doughnuts 2 ring doughnuts 1 gingerbread man I have had the Costa surprise bag once and wasn't impressed . I got 3 toasties! There's is absolutely no way I would buy the toasted sandwiches full price Try greggs again, you may get a good bag
I was looking at the Greggs thinking it looked like 4 meals 🤣. You could mix & match restaurant food & grocery store. You could probably make it go pretty far. It’s funny to hear you say “they obviously won’t eat donuts for breakfast“. people have donuts for breakfast in the US all the time.
Love Too Good To Go so I was excited to see this video. My husband and I get bagel surprise bags from our favorite bagel shop. We always get a good amount of bagels for $5. The first time we got it was the most - 21 bagels for $5. We get them and we freeze the bagels.
Looks like a decent brunch from Toby Carvery that worked out to £1.40 day. Do they do an evening/dinner option? Those mushrooms and beans counted towards veggies. Beans can sometimes dry out a bit when left out for to long or over-heated. A little bit of water or some ketchup can help fix this. That vegan cheese and beans toastie looked pathetic. Riley sightings at 4:05, 7:38 & 12:08. A thought from Riley "A feast for the eyes, but not the stomach." Riley missed out on becoming Scooby Doo and chowing down on something yummy, maybe next time.
Hi Sam. I wish we had something like this here. Maybe we do and I just don’t know about it. I think this is so darn clever. Nobody should go to bed hungry.☮️
I've had a few and they have been hit and miss. I got my first from a Nisa for about £2 and got 4 rustlers burgers and some tikka wraps then went to greggs on a Saturday and only got a few bits for £4. They are good if you are finishing work later and fancy a carvery at 8pm or a late breakfast though.
The Asian street food section in Asda is the best one I’ve had, £20 worth of stuff for £4 sells out fast but you always get loads, they always have loads of the larger poke or rice bowls left.
At greggs we are told that the bag must be at least £8 value but not much more than that. If we have extra waste we just sell extra bags instead of putting extra items in
Restaurant lunch buffeets are great for this, there is one near me that gives you a big container which you fill up with whatever you want that is left
Reheating eggs is fine, often nuke left over egg foo yung, don't overdo it or they go like rubber and also dry out, reheating in a water bath depending on the type of egg may be best, cause EFY has liquor in it TBF so maybe it's why it reheats as well lol
You got lucky with the Costa bag. You normally only get 3 items in it. Greggs is very hit and miss. I've ended up with one like your friend's on a couple of occasions but more often I get one like yours. Toby breakfast is my favourite.
This is such a great idea especially in these uncertain times. I feel like more people are using Too Good To Go more than ever which explains the decrease in the amount in the bags.
Brinner sounds good to me Sam 😀I have been watching your very interesting and helpful videos for 2 months now ,just wanted to thank you for the content .Love your pets by the way they are adorable .Take care now .🫡
I picked up an amazing £5 Pret bag recently and calculated that the original price would have been over £40! Got so much variety, 4 baguettes, 1 sandwich, 1 salad bowl, 1 granola pot!
Interesting experiment. Quite pricey though when you think that covers only one person for 2 meals each day. Its amazing what an air fryer can do to left overs.
It's times like this, and only times like this, when I almost wish I lived in a major city. I would be all about Too Good To Go if I were able to access it. As much as I love cooking, the monotony of cooking 2 or 3 meals a day, day after day after day is just... uuugh. Sadly, where I live, restaurant meals and even fast food is ridiculously expensive so we almost always cook our meals at home.
I was in a Starbucks once with a mate in the evening having a coffee and cake as we were finishing a staff member came up and offered us free cakes as they were left over and would have been thrown away . And of course we said yes. This was a few years ago I think before too good to go
Too Good to Go bags are filled to meet a minimum value set by that particular retailer - for example Greggs will give you at least £8 worth of items. I don't think those values have really changed at all over the last year or so, but their standard prices have obviously gone up so you end up with less from Too Good to Go compared to the mega full bags people got in the early days. Inflation sucks.
Toby carvery breakfast looked fine Costa stuff seemed ok Greggs...again ok Overall good value for money for every place Going to subscribe, if i havent already Call the meal Blunch...an Alan Partridge reference
I love too good to go! I’m impressed and a little bit jealous, you get so much more in your bags than you do by me! I get Costa and Greggs all the time and get like 2 sandwiches, weird. I wonder if it’s because my stores are smaller?
Ive had a £4 bag from the premier near mine, got a steak, a whole chicken and loads of fridge stuff more then another bag with about 4 loafs, we also got all the left over hot stuff from the bacon/sausage barm section. The next day was shit, luck of the draw i guess 🙄
15 mins after the store gives away that days bags you will secure one for the next day, and I have purchased over 100 bags from various stores. The morrisons cafe cold sandwich and cake bags are amazing. I got 10 baguette sandwiches in 1 😂😂
This would have been much better with an Aldi and M&S bag with a Greggs one or Toby roast. Check the rating of Greggs bags, go for one with 4.8 and you should get a good amount. From what I've heard pizza express are just dough balls, and rubbish
Dont know about the uk, but too good to go in Spain is a joke!! 90% of the places who do it are usually cake shops or supermarkets!! the restaurants in my experience have on the whole been disappointing hiding behind the mystery bag excuse!! so when you open up those plastic boxes the food they give you isnt food ready for the bin, but food that was in the fridge. Sadly the very good places who participated in too good to go have left!!
you sound entitled to a degree saying that you expect more for 2.59 when if you had bought the same stuff at full price it would be at least 15 im sure if not 20 or more.
If you get a Morrisons bag as part of it that would be good, you get a huge banana box of food, sometimes just fruit and veg but I would love to see your creations @@SamWilder.
I’m in Australia and we do not have these kind of deals or bags. One sandwich would cost over $12 aud that’s 6 pounds, the veggie breakfast would be $24 aud thats 12 pounds. Cost of food in Australia is generally rather expensive.
Cant wait for a Supermarket Too Good To Go Challenge 😊
I work in a food service job. Coffee Chains/bakeries and places like this are told to put an amount equal to 15-20 retail price. If there is a large amount of waste for that particular day and they are feeling generous they will add more to reduce waste. Sometimes if you just go in and ask towards the end of the day, and there is a large amount of waste, some places will give out things on the house to reduce waste. But I used to work for costa, if you have no cakes, chances are all the cakes were opened on that day and no cake has a 1 day shelf life. Muffins are 48 hours and some cakes have a shelf life of 5 days so if I were you, avoid the cakes from costa
The costa cake are great I have had cakes in both there savory bag with sandwiches and in the bakery only bags and they always last
I used to work in a Warrens (basically Cornish Greggs) and we had Too Good To Go- from what I remember here's how it works on the workers side of things. We got a number of bags we needed to make up (for us this was like 3-4 bags) and we would exclusively put sandwiches etc going out of date that day, and any pastries/baked goods that have exceeded their shelf life of 2 days. There was also a strict policy from my work that we could not put food in there that was still sellable, so it was kind of just the last pickings left over and rarely anything that exciting. It was extremely rare for us to have sausage rolls or bakes left over especially, usually our bags were full of sandwiches and belgian buns, kind of in line with what your Greggs bag ended up as. It 100% depends on the day and how many bags we needed to make, sometimes we'd only have to make one bag and we would have a tonne to go in there, other days we'd have multiple bags with barely enough for 3 items each. Luck of the draw tbh! Great video btw c:
Oh no fellow Cornishman spotted!
Tried it one time with my local Warrens, got 3 medium steak and bacon bite for £4 I think it was...
Only day I ever did it because I scranned them all in one day and realised I'd get fucking fat if I didn't delete the app immediately 😂
Thanks for this! Genuinely fascinating to know and I guessed as much! Seems like my friends bag must have had a slow couple of selling days to give him so much!!
Interesting, thanks for sharing
Nice to hear how it sort of works from a person on the front line
@@SamWilder.Maybe some days are better than others. I've only watched a few of your videos have you done a video where you buy solely from reduced areas? Where I live Tunbridge Wells our Boots used to reduce their meal deal food items to 50p on Sundays...really good value for pretty good sandwiches, wraps, pasta salads...sadly they've stopped doing this 😢
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I got a Greg's one on Monday ham n egg sandwhich 2 sausage rolls 1 chicken bake 1 pan un chocolate and a doughnut. Good £2.59 investment
Too good to go is coming to Australia soon!! I’m beyond excited :). Loved this vid
I do TGTG at my place of work and we have a value of what the items in the bag should come to. It is basically leftovers but if we feel we cant fill the boxes properly do have to cancle them on the app. Keep the videos coming! Love watching them, recent subscriber over here!
you did well with the Costa bag- their usual policy is 3 items per bag (as is Starbucks) The costa bag I got was a ham and cheese toastie, a small brownie and a tuna sandwich. Worth what I paid for it but not amazing. We have Pound Bakery nearby their bags are amazing, especially if the manager gets carried away :)
When I worked at Greggs they just told me to put in any sandwiches, donuts, bakes that were leftover and if there were any biscuits that were going to be leftover to put all of those in too
Wenzels which is a local West London bakery chain similar to Greggs does really good TGTG, always with 3-4 sandwiches, pastries, cakes and doughnuts, plus often a huge loaf of bread as well.
Good challenge. You should do more of these.
. My good to go bag I got from greggs last week was fantastic. The best one that I got. When I was handed the bag, i knew it was going to be. a good one. . In my bag were,
2x chicken bake
4pack sausage roll
Roast chicken and bacon vlub
Mexican chicken oval
2 yums
2 caramel custard doughnuts
2 jam doughnuts
2 ring doughnuts
1 gingerbread man
I have had the Costa surprise bag once and wasn't impressed . I got 3 toasties! There's is absolutely no way I would buy the toasted sandwiches full price
Try greggs again, you may get a good bag
greggs too good to go's really are the way to go speaking from my experience also!
You are so wholesome and innocent. I love you.
I was looking at the Greggs thinking it looked like 4 meals 🤣. You could mix & match restaurant food & grocery store. You could probably make it go pretty far. It’s funny to hear you say “they obviously won’t eat donuts for breakfast“. people have donuts for breakfast in the US all the time.
Love Too Good To Go so I was excited to see this video. My husband and I get bagel surprise bags from our favorite bagel shop. We always get a good amount of bagels for $5. The first time we got it was the most - 21 bagels for $5. We get them and we freeze the bagels.
Looks like a decent brunch from Toby Carvery that worked out to £1.40 day. Do they do an evening/dinner option? Those mushrooms and beans counted towards veggies. Beans can sometimes dry out a bit when left out for to long or over-heated. A little bit of water or some ketchup can help fix this. That vegan cheese and beans toastie looked pathetic.
Riley sightings at 4:05, 7:38 & 12:08.
A thought from Riley "A feast for the eyes, but not the stomach."
Riley missed out on becoming Scooby Doo and chowing down on something yummy, maybe next time.
Love your videos dude, pleasure to watch after a long hard day at work
Means a lot!!
Hi Sam. I wish we had something like this here. Maybe we do and I just don’t know about it. I think this is so darn clever. Nobody should go to bed hungry.☮️
Darn straight!
I've had a few and they have been hit and miss. I got my first from a Nisa for about £2 and got 4 rustlers burgers and some tikka wraps then went to greggs on a Saturday and only got a few bits for £4.
They are good if you are finishing work later and fancy a carvery at 8pm or a late breakfast though.
I seen an article the other day about a woman who ordered a vegetarian bag from a carvery and got 3 bowls of corn 😭 😂😂😂
Noooooo that’s hilarious 😅
I really like you're vids, already see other channels copying you keep it going
Love the content mate, keep it up! Your channel is growing FAST
The Asian street food section in Asda is the best one I’ve had, £20 worth of stuff for £4 sells out fast but you always get loads, they always have loads of the larger poke or rice bowls left.
At greggs we are told that the bag must be at least £8 value but not much more than that. If we have extra waste we just sell extra bags instead of putting extra items in
Love how the dog just sits and watches you eat that sandwich 12:20
Restaurant lunch buffeets are great for this, there is one near me that gives you a big container which you fill up with whatever you want that is left
Awesome video! I had no idea cool aps like this existed. I'd be interested in seeing if you can get three 5 star ratings with the ap in a later video.
Reheating eggs is fine, often nuke left over egg foo yung, don't overdo it or they go like rubber and also dry out, reheating in a water bath depending on the type of egg may be best, cause EFY has liquor in it TBF so maybe it's why it reheats as well lol
You got lucky with the Costa bag. You normally only get 3 items in it. Greggs is very hit and miss. I've ended up with one like your friend's on a couple of occasions but more often I get one like yours. Toby breakfast is my favourite.
This is such a great idea especially in these uncertain times. I feel like more people are using Too Good To Go more than ever which explains the decrease in the amount in the bags.
Brinner sounds good to me Sam 😀I have been watching your very interesting and helpful videos for 2 months now ,just wanted to thank you for the content .Love your pets by the way they are adorable .Take care now .🫡
I picked up an amazing £5 Pret bag recently and calculated that the original price would have been over £40! Got so much variety, 4 baguettes, 1 sandwich, 1 salad bowl, 1 granola pot!
Interesting experiment. Quite pricey though when you think that covers only one person for 2 meals each day. Its amazing what an air fryer can do to left overs.
It's times like this, and only times like this, when I almost wish I lived in a major city. I would be all about Too Good To Go if I were able to access it. As much as I love cooking, the monotony of cooking 2 or 3 meals a day, day after day after day is just... uuugh. Sadly, where I live, restaurant meals and even fast food is ridiculously expensive so we almost always cook our meals at home.
Learn to batch cook, or cook something that lasts multiple days, 1 day cooking 3 days eating!
I was in a Starbucks once with a mate in the evening having a coffee and cake as we were finishing a staff member came up and offered us free cakes as they were left over and would have been thrown away . And of course we said yes. This was a few years ago I think before too good to go
Enjoyed that, the toby carvey looked good value
It was!
Enjoyed this a lot, great to show anyone thinking about giving it a try, what to expect 👍
A really enjoy these video Sam is also think it’s about the location you are to what you get. 💖🐩🐩💖👍👍🕊🌈
Too Good to Go bags are filled to meet a minimum value set by that particular retailer - for example Greggs will give you at least £8 worth of items. I don't think those values have really changed at all over the last year or so, but their standard prices have obviously gone up so you end up with less from Too Good to Go compared to the mega full bags people got in the early days. Inflation sucks.
I had never heard of this before now, some local places that do this near me, i'm tempted to try a few out
Love the odd Too Good To Go bags. You normally get so much decent food for a really good price.
i get the to good to go bags from the local spar and the amount in each bag is amazing
Toby carvery breakfast looked fine
Costa stuff seemed ok
Greggs...again ok
Overall good value for money for every place
Going to subscribe, if i havent already
Call the meal Blunch...an Alan Partridge reference
I love too good to go! I’m impressed and a little bit jealous, you get so much more in your bags than you do by me! I get Costa and Greggs all the time and get like 2 sandwiches, weird. I wonder if it’s because my stores are smaller?
I've got the "too good to go" app, but I haven't yet used it yet. They look decent ❤️
Every video i watch of yours. i always look out for the doggo... in this episode the doggo looking at you like ok you have had a bite now wheres mine
I can vouch for Cafe Nero bags, they've always given me a lot, different locations too
Very much surprised of the value from Costa considering their extortionate usual prices
Loved this. 😋
Ive had a £4 bag from the premier near mine, got a steak, a whole chicken and loads of fridge stuff more then another bag with about 4 loafs, we also got all the left over hot stuff from the bacon/sausage barm section.
The next day was shit, luck of the draw i guess 🙄
Great video as ever 😀 Is it paid this one?
Good Morning from this Nana from Montana ❣️
Good morning!
That's an awful lot of carbs/beige there - with the exception of Toby. No wonder you were starving.
i got like 8 things from gregs that was like 2 bags worth
I got one from barburrito the other week was really good
I work in a costa and the beans and cheese toastie isn’t vegan. It’s normal cheese
I’m 90% sure this is in rugby. So glad you did this video used to do too good to go in Manchester but never tried it in my home town😅
You should do living off too good too go only for 1 week or 30 days solid
Starbucks usually adds a pastry or a cake
Loved the video.
always wanted to try a too good bag but always sold out in my area! I'll get one some day
15 mins after the store gives away that days bags you will secure one for the next day, and I have purchased over 100 bags from various stores. The morrisons cafe cold sandwich and cake bags are amazing. I got 10 baguette sandwiches in 1 😂😂
This would have been much better with an Aldi and M&S bag with a Greggs one or Toby roast. Check the rating of Greggs bags, go for one with 4.8 and you should get a good amount. From what I've heard pizza express are just dough balls, and rubbish
I thought they were pretty good bags. We don’t have that here in my area of australia
Riley is like "Is 'Pet's at home' on this app??"
She would be so lucky!
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It’s a hit or a miss with the Greggs bag, my local Greggs stopped doing toogoodtogo bags and it’s devastating
Nooooo
Dont know about the uk, but too good to go in Spain is a joke!! 90% of the places who do it are usually cake shops or supermarkets!! the restaurants in my experience have on the whole been disappointing hiding behind the mystery bag excuse!! so when you open up those plastic boxes the food they give you isnt food ready for the bin, but food that was in the fridge. Sadly the very good places who participated in too good to go have left!!
You could totally stretch that to another meal or 2
Great video
you sound entitled to a degree saying that you expect more for 2.59 when if you had bought the same stuff at full price it would be at least 15 im sure if not 20 or more.
I got £26 food from Greggs for that price last time. Poor doggy not eating food.
3:15 wasn't expecting to spot Grackle on this 🤣
Love Grackle! Bit of an inspo ngl
We call late lunch early dinner Linner!! My good lady and I.
Toby roast r nice i get them a lot
TGTG is addictive, pret is a good bag if you have one near you
Definitely want to try a pret one. And a pizza express one. Maybe a £20 challenge next….
If you get a Morrisons bag as part of it that would be good, you get a huge banana box of food, sometimes just fruit and veg but I would love to see your creations @@SamWilder.
A cold fry up from Toby?
Am no food snob but to be honest I wouldn't give it to the hound!
For £10 you can get a whole chicken, spuds, frozen mixed veg, fresh fruit, mixed peppers, rice and be able to make at LEAST 4 meals for 1
Spot on AND you won't be sending yourself on your merry way to diabetes.
gotta love how the "Vegetarian box" had eggs in it
Eggs are vegetarian.
Young Master Wilder, I like the cut of your sandwich. Consider me subscribed.
Welcome to the family :D
@@SamWilder. It's a pleasure :)
Don’t need no dead animals on ya plate buddy 😂
That panini press was so jealous of the air fryer untill now
Brinner and Dunch… sounds like a foreign show about 2 corrupt police officers 😂
Gregs ones are better in the week then when you get it on the weekend aint good and differnt each time you go
Well it should be different, it’s just what’s left at the end of the day
This was during the week! Maybe should try a bigger store
Too good to go change alot some places are better than and depends where u live to
My Morrisons too good to go gives me a weeks worth of bread and veg for £3.50!!
hello sam wilder. i love your content if it wasn't obvious by now!
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Something about you irritates me but the content is so good I keep watching lol keep it up
Why you watching it then if it irritates you?
No brown sauce !!
Shocking !!
No donuts for breakfast !!!
Double shocking !!!!
Air fryer breaths life into almost anything
4:05 😭😭😭❤❤❤
I had one from sayers and wasnt good and had of the coffee house and that wasnt good aswell
Beans covered in tomato sauce, okay lets add ketchup? This service looks incredible if you dont really have any allergies though.
They weren’t the sauciest of beans!
the costa beanz and cheese isn’t actually vegan! just veggie so it’s real cheese :)
I’m in Australia and we do not have these kind of deals or bags. One sandwich would cost over $12 aud that’s 6 pounds, the veggie breakfast would be $24 aud thats 12 pounds. Cost of food in Australia is generally rather expensive.
Hi how are you doing
Good thanks! Hope you are too!
After getting a few to good to go bags I would say in answer to ur question, without watching video! Probably about 1 day!
I think sam should change the titles to (sams 2 day challenges) 😂
😂 The first one lasted 3 days! :P
absolute bargain meals those !
Toby Carvery was 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
Nice
Brinner! 🍴
Brunch or brinner? Lol!!!
3 pounds for 2 meals is a clear bargain
Too bad it was soooooo many carbohydrates 😢
Dunch, I like that
Dunch > Brinner