I finally got a £3.99 Tim Hortons mystery box and felt like I’d won the lottery

It’s certainly no secret that Too Good To Go’s food waste-fighting ‘magic bags’ are a culinary lottery. It all depends on availability, meaning some days you’ll receive a sad looking salad, and others you’ll find yourself with half a weekly shop.

While you can never guarantee what’s in your magic bag, you can certainly increase your chances of enjoying what will be inside, by carefully choosing where to collect your bags from.

For example, you can’t go far wrong with Greggs, who rotate their stock daily, which is a good chance you’ll get some warm bakes and maybe a sweet treat. However, some places are a lot more unpredictable, like Morrisons and Aldi, where you could get some packet chicken and some tomatoes and not really know what to do with them.

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For those who aren’t familiar with Too Good To Go, the free money-saving app allows you to reserve bags of food at a heavily discounted rate from local partnered brands - often shops and cafes - which are set to go out of date. Shoppers can collect them during an allocated time slot, and enjoy goodies that would have otherwise been thrown away.

While it’s a great way to save some food from being wasted, as well as save a bit of cash, it’s not ideal for those on a very tight budget amid the cost of living crisis because you really can’t be certain what you’re going to get. But if you have got a bit of spare cash, or aren’t fussy about what you eat for your lunch, it’s all a bit of fun and can sometimes go quite a long way.

This week, I finally got my hands on a mystery box from Tim Hortons and it felt like I’d won the lottery.

Up until recently, Tim Hortons Too Good To Go bags were