I have this app called Too Good To Go and it lets you buy shit from grocery stores that they would otherwise throw away for a cheap price (think like 15 euro worth of stuff for 3-4 euro). Today I went for it and got sort of disappointed, as a got like two cheeses, plant based butter, a box of eclairs, 15 little desserts and a steak. Sort of decent catch, not very nutritious. We gave the steak away as meat is not eaten in our house.

The app is a hit or miss. You can sometimes end up with a big box of veggies you can eat for a whole week. Just not today.

Anyway, it always makes me think how fucking much food is thrown away. Like, the app is so full in just my City. According to the app, 124kg of food is throw out every SECOND in this country. How anyone has to get hungry because they can’t contribute to the profit is just insane. I hope we can one day look back at this time in disgust.

  • @[email protected]
    11•1 year ago

    AFAIR some shops don’t use the app as intended, just peddling some shit, counting on the surprise factor. But still, this and the posts about dumpster diving kinda make me scared about the world we’re living in.

    • Catfish [she/her]
      14•1 year ago

      We used to subsidize a large portion of our food from dumpsters but recently there has been hella crackdowns and we just can’t find anything good and unprotected anymore. We had one year where we dumpster dived like $600 worth of some fancy granola and snacked on it the whole year round and that was great. Now we just struggle.