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Mum shares how to get £1.50 Lidl's bargain food box as she shows off haul

One mum's Facebook post over a Too Good To Waste has gained a mass amount of attention after she showed just how much food she received.

Sharing photos of her huge haul of fresh fruit and vegetables, Arja Vapola went on to explain how everyone can get the £1.50 box for themselves.

As reported by Manchester Evening News, the budget supermarket launched the Too Good To Waste boxes back in 2019, offering fresh fruit and veg that needs to be eaten, is 'wonky' or is in other ways surplus to requirements.

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In the posts she praises the boxes as she shared a photo of haul containing, stuffed with mushrooms, potatoes, onions, lettuce, grapes, peppers, blueberries, tomatoes, spring onions, courgettes and oranges as well as other fresh produce.

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 Lidl 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.

"So far have made leek and potato soup, aubergine stew, two banana cakes 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."

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