Why Too Good To Go Is Changing The Way We Think About Leftovers
We live in a culture of the new - the fresh-out-the-box, straight-off-the-shelf, next-day-delivered. But behind the shiny curtain of convenience is an uncomfortable truth: food waste. In the UK alone, more than 9.5 million tonnes of food are wasted each year, much of it perfectly edible.
Enter Too Good To Go, the app that's reframing the way we see surplus. Instead of bakeries, cafes, and restaurants bin their unsold goods at the end of the day, the app lets you buy a “Magic Bag” filled with surprise treats at a fraction of the price. The thrill lies in the unknown - will your bag hold a sourdough loaf, a couple of almond croissants, or perhaps a hearty dhal?
Too Good To Go is not about imperfection - it’s about preventing good food from going to waste. The end-of-day sourdough, the leftover croissants, the slice of cake that didn’t sell - all still perfectly edible, all too valuable to throw away. Each bag is a reminder that letting food slip through the cracks is a choice we can no longer afford to make.
It would be easy to see Too Good To Go as just a savvy way to get dinner for £4 - but that misses the bigger picture. Every meal rescued honours the water, soil, energy, and human effort put into producing it. Each Magic Bag pushes back against a culture of excess, reminding us that while so many go without, the most powerful choice we can make is to value what we already have.
Some of our favourite Too Good To Go bags in the Glassette office:
Forno Bread Bag - London Fields (check at 15:30pm daily!)
Finks Mixed Bag - Finsbury Park (check at 15:00pm daily!)
Pavillion Mixed Bag - Columbia Road (check at 15:00pm daily!)
Quince Bakery Mixed Bag - Angel (check at 16:00pm daily!)
St John Bakery - Bermondsey (check at 15:00pm daily!)