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#food-waste
3 articles
freebiesToo Good To Go, Olio and the surplus-food apps: what £3.50 actually gets you
Britain bins roughly 10 million tonnes of food a year, and a handful of apps redirect a slice of it to whoever turns up at closing time. The bags are genuinely cheap and genuinely a lottery — here is which app is worth the notifications and how to play the timings.
8 Sept 20264 min read
shoppingUse-by, best-before, and the freezer: making a yellow-sticker haul last the month
A 90p chicken is only a bargain if you can use it. The date-label rules, what freezes well, and how to turn a £6 markdown haul into a fortnight of dinners instead of Tuesday's bin bag.
19 Jun 20264 min read
shoppingYellow sticker hunting: the art of the supermarket markdown
Every supermarket throws food away every night. With a little timing and a freezer, a third of that ends up in your kitchen for pennies.
10 Apr 20262 min read