The Too Good To Go link below is our referral link — no extra cost to you, and it helps keep the map free. We use the app ourselves on the road.
Rolling through a town near the end of the day? Too Good To Go lets you grab a "surprise bag" of unsold food from local bakeries, cafés, restaurants, and grocers for roughly a third of the normal price — cheap meals on the road, and good food saved from going to waste. This is our referral link.
How it works
Shops with fresh food left at closing list it as a surprise bag in the app. You reserve and pay through the app, then collect during a pickup window near closing. You do not pick the exact contents, which is the trade for the price — you get what the shop has surplus of that day. The full how-to, including how to use it as a traveller passing through, is in the food-rescue apps guide.
Why we use it
It is a genuinely useful one for budget-conscious nomads. For someone eating most meals out of a van, a few surprise bags a week is a real dent in the food budget, and you eat a bit better than the gas-station default while keeping good food out of the landfill. The main thing to manage is the pickup window: reserve once you know where your evening lands, and favour bakery or grocer bags that travel and keep.
The short version
Too Good To Go turns a shop's end-of-day surplus into a cheap meal, and it is a real saver for road life. Reserve once your evening stop is settled, favour pickup-friendly bakeries and grocers, and read the food-rescue apps guide for the full traveller's how-to. This is our referral link.