Supermarkets are offering customers secret "magic bags" which could allow you to tuck into a delicious steak dinner for just £3.
In a bid to tackle food waste, many stores are offering mystery bags of unsold food for bargain prices through the Too Good to Go app.
The clever scheme features in Channel 4's Food Unwrapped, which highlights how Co-op's version sometimes includes steaks which normally have a much higher price tag.
According to the programme, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by food waste if it was calculated in the same way as a country would be the third-biggest producer of greenhouse gas next to the US and China.
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But supermarkets are doing what they can to cut down on food waste through a series of schemes and initiatives.
The first line of defence is the reduced section in which products about to go past their sell-by date are dramatically slashed in price.
But the Co-Op is partnered with the app "Too Good To Go" which allows users to purchase unsold food from top eateries to prevent it from being thrown away.
The app has over 39 million users who can buy food at a hugely discounted price.
Host of the Channel 4 show, Kate Quilton, put together a bag for a customer out of the reduced food section which would make a dinner for an app user, although would remain a mystery until they came to pick up their food.
One customer came to collect her food and got bread, sausage, mash and steak for £3.09.
She said: "It isn't going to waste and it is cheaper for me."
Another customer said: "I've got a couple of teenagers and they're quite expensive."
When asked if she felt good about saving food from the bin, she added: "Yes, and it's so cheap."
However, later in the programme, it is revealed that the biggest culprits for food waste aren't the supermarkets at all.
Actually it is the consumer who wastes tonnes of food a year.
It is the equivalent of 6.6 million tonnes of food wasted every year.
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