A shopper has explained how to get hold of the £1.50 boxes stuffed full of food you can sometimes find in Lidl as she showed off her huge haul. Mum-of-two Arja Vapola shared pictures of her huge haul of fresh fruit and vegetables on Facebook, and explained how everyone can get one for themselves.
Lidl launched boxes of Too Good To Waste food in 2019, selling fresh fruit and vegetables that needs to be used up, is 'wonky' or is in other ways surplus to requirements, reports MEN.
Arja attracted hundreds of comments when she showed off how much she got in the £1.50 box she picked up - stuffed with mushrooms, potatoes, onions, lettuce, grapes, peppers, blueberries, tomatoes, spring onions, courgettes and oranges as well as other fresh produce.
Mum Arja Vapola shared the contents of her £1.50 Lidl box. She got everything pictured, minus the eggs (Image: Manchester Evening News)
Arja said: "£1.50 too good to go box from Lidl (minus the eggs). Plenty of life left in all but blueberries - they’re gonna be gone in five minutes in this house anyway. Too many easy peelers for our household but gonna give them to my partner take work to his colleagues so there’s no waste.
"If you’ve never seen these in your local Lidl ask member of staff what time they go out. I have three Lidls close by and one puts them out 8am, another ones closer to midday."
Other shoppers have also been sharing their hauls. Nia shared a photo of the banana cake she made from her Lidl box along with a list of her other creations.
Nia shared what she made with the contents of her Lidl box (Image: Manchester Evening News)
"So far have made leek and potato soup, aubergine stew, x2 banana cake and strawberries already devoured," she said. "Just carrots parsnips and spring onions to go! Good work Lidl for ensuring slightly damaged fruit and veg don’t go to waste. All at a knocked down price."
Nia said: "I've seen these boxes many times but as they are at the end by the till, I never bought them as I’d already piled up on my veg. I talked to one of the staff one day who explained that they go through veg on a daily basis and if there is any damage to a pack, say one carrot not looking so good, they’d take many times the offending item out and place them in one of these boxes.
"So, I finally got round to buying one, I checked them all out and there were different options in each box, and I cracked on with it. Obviously you need to use with store items you have in the cupboard, but I was really impressed with what you could achieve if you gave it some thought."
