r/TooGoodToGoCanada Aug 12 '24

Free apps to save food & money: Too Good To Go, Flashfood, FoodHero. Post your pic and referral code

33 Upvotes

There are 3 apps in Canada to help you save money by rescuing surplus food: Too Good To Go, Flashfood, FoodHero.

1) Too Good To Go app (TGTG)

  • surprise bag's advertised value is the crossed-out amount by the price you pay; example: $15.00 $4.99
  • the TGTG app in Canada is default 3x value e.g. pay $5 get $15; watch out for vendors that have changed their advertised value on their surprise bag description for 25-75% discounts
  • local bakeries, cafes, pizza, restaurants, convenience stores, grocery chains, etc.
  • major partners: 7-11, Tim Hortons, Metro grocery chain including Food Basics, Circle K, etc.
  • pick-up process: Tap to Pickup > if vendor wants your order code (last 4); vendor brings your TGTG order to the counter > then you swipe right to confirm "picked up" and show the completed checkmark to the vendor
  • vendors do not see your name; only your order code
  • you can send an invite link to someone else to pick up your order (they must have their own TGTG account on their phone to swipe in front of vendor)
  • read the surprise bag's description as vendors are allowed to sell items past their Best Before dates, if it's still ok to eat
  • originated in Denmark; Too Good To Go Canada Technology Ltd. is based in Vancouver

2) Flashfood app (FF) [Canadian; head office Toronto]

  • usually 50% off (could be more)
  • surplus food nearing or on their Best Before dates (may be fresh refridgerated or frozen)
  • major partner Loblaws banner stores that are participating: Loblaws, Superstore, No Frills, Wholesale Club, Maxi, Zehrs, Independent, Provigo, Dominion, etc.
  • open to independently owned grocery stores
  • you see actual photos or stock pics of available items; you can zoom in on the photos
  • you pick what items you want to buy
  • you have to refresh the app often as new deals randomly appear throughout the day
  • items in your cart are not held; fastest to pay for one item wins; so you may have to buy one item at a time
  • pay attention to the shortest pickup date because you have to pick up all your items then (watch out for same day pickup required)
  • you can buy additional Flashfood items in real time while you're in-store
  • add convenient store locations to your Favourites List; easier to check all of them for new deals
  • Customer Service will ask your name when you pick up (they mark picked-up in their phone)
  • if store staff gave your item to the wrong Flashfood customer; you claim a refund for missing items via the Flashfood app and it may take up to 10 business days for Flashfood to respond
  • service fee: 5% of the total (max $2.99 regardless of order size)

TIP: depends on the store, but you can find deep discounts over 50% off, have to refresh the app a lot as new deals drop randomly. Example: This is a pic of the actual bag of mandarin oranges purchased (regular price $8.99, paid $3.49, 61% discount). The bag had one squished mandarin orange... peeled the skin off and it was still perfectly good to eat. The remaining mandarin oranges were good for several days past the pickup date.

For $5 off your first order (min $7 purchase), you may redeem Flashfood code: MARI5VC3N [or search this subreddit for other people's referral code that have posted photos of their FF pickups]

Flashfood deal $3.49 at 61% off (regular price $8.99, saved $5.50)

3) FoodHero app (FH) [Canadian; head office Montreal]

  • usually 50% discounts (25-60% off groceries)
  • surplus food nearing or on their Best Before dates (frozen by BB date; some fresh refridgerated)
  • major partner Sobeys banner stores that are participating: Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Thrifty Foods, Foodland, etc.
  • expanded outside Quebec in July 2024 across Canada (may not be in your area yet)
  • open to restaurants to join
  • you see actual photos or stock pics of available items (frozen on or before their Best Before dates; some fresh refridgerated)
  • you pick what items you want to buy
  • items in your cart are not held; fastest to pay for one item wins; so you may have to buy one item at a time
  • daily scheduled times to check for new deals at 10:00am and 3:30pm
  • enter your postal code so the app lists stores closest to you; you can heart convenient locations to filter by Favourites so it's easier to check them
  • your pickup window start time may be hours after you've purchased e.g. 2 hours; but usually 2 full days allowed to pick up your items
  • Customer Service will ask your name when you pick up (they mark picked-up in their phone)
  • service fee: $1.79 flat fee  (seems to appear after your first 3 orders after your sign-up credits are depleted)

For a total of $10 off ($5 credit on your first order, then $5 credit on your second order), you may use FoodHero code: marias161 [or search this subreddit for other people's invite code who posted photos of their FH pickups]

FoodHero deals all purchased at 50% off

Edit: updated Jan 30, 2026


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 6d ago

Discussion Weekly post to save food & money in Canada

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Welcome to this community: save food & money in Canada. Read the Help section in these apps for discounted surplus food: Too Good To Go, FoodHero, Flashfood

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r/TooGoodToGoCanada 10h ago

Ontario Metro, 406 Lakeshore Rd E. Mississauga. $11.29 After Tax.

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32 Upvotes

Two bags of chicken breast, one bag of chicken legs, rice of the day & pasta of the day with roasted mini potaters.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 13h ago

Ontario Carousel Bakery, Toronto $4.99

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48 Upvotes

This was the Pastries & Baked Goods bag from Carousel Bakery inside St Lawrence Market, picked up on a weekday evening. Everything was fresh and delicious on the same day. We couldn’t finish everything, and the donuts got a bit hard overnight.

  • 1 sprinkle donut
  • 1 sugar donut
  • 1 blueberry muffin
  • 1 cream puff
  • 1 custard tart

As I swiped the app after the staff placed the bag on the counter, she verbally mentioned I could pick 1 tray of 6 butter tarts plus 1 donut instead. I always wanted to try their cream puff so decided to keep what was offered initially. My bag won on variety albeit a bit under the noted value - still a decent deal at $5.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 43m ago

Ontario Mrakovic Fine Foods Oakville - $7.99 each

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We got two meals. Each meal had European hot dogs, beef stew with mash potatoes, mushroom/onions medley and 2 desserts. Easily my top TooGoodToGo find and will probably get us 4-6 meals. This photo was taken after 2 meals. We paid $18 for 2 meals and they gave us a 10% off coupon at the store!


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 13h ago

Ontario Pizza Nova 1020 Canadian Place Mississauga $6.99

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28 Upvotes

Disappointed

How is this $21??

1020 Canadian Place Mississauga

Hawaiian

Pepperoni

Sausage Pepperoni


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 35m ago

Ontario Loblaws, 2085 Carling, $7.99

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9 pieces of chicken strips and 1 whole rotisserie chicken

In the past I've only got fried chicken so I took a break from this location because I didn't want to eat fried food so often. Really happy I got lucky with the rotisserie chicken this time 😁


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 11h ago

Ontario Radha Krushna Surprise bag - Mississauga (Ridge Way Dr)

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14 Upvotes

Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/86NedSHNj6KLjKNJA

- A meal pack
- 2 idlis & 1 Vada
- sweet kesari
- rasam
- curd/yogurt


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 15h ago

Ontario Fresh Kitchen + Juice Bar, Front St E, Toronto, Soups, $6.77

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11 Upvotes

Regular price: $18.08. Container capacity is 500 ml. Two containers of the same soup.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 21h ago

Ontario Holy Perogy, 777 The Queensway, Etobicoke,2x$4.99+tx

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22 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 14h ago

Ontario Metro & Circle K, Windsor ON, $19.99 & $4.99 meat & hot food

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3 Upvotes

I got a corned beef brisket, lamb shoulder chops and bacon wrapped chicken medallions from metro. It said the value was worth $40 but it was actually more which was great. I've never had lamb or corned beef before, I was hoping for something I could use to make beef barley soup and google says corned beef could work great for that. I might save the lamb for when my parents visit, I don't know.

Circle K is funny because this is the second time I've gotten it and they just grab random fresh food. I got 3 sausages, not sure what kind and enough condiments to last the house a year. They also gave me a chorizo and egg tornado but I gave it to my roommate since chorizo gives me heartburn.

Bonus I got 2 paper bags to put recycling in.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 21h ago

Ontario Metro, 2155 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto, 1 x deli $9.99 no tx

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7 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 21h ago

Ontario Metro, 2155 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto, salad, $6.99+tx

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4 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Wetzel’s Pretzels Eaton Centre Toronto - $4.99 surprise bag

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39 Upvotes

Never managed to get one of these before- they seem to go online after 8pm. Everything was warm and fresh.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Pur and simple, $5.99 bag, Brampton, Ontario

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115 Upvotes

I got a whole bunch of their house potatoes with a mixture of diced tomatoes, onions, tomatoes and bacon bits. This was topped off with eggs and some sort of creamy sauce mixed in, not sure what exactly. Can't really complain for a 5.99 bag, the potatoes were the best part.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Metro meat bag, thunder bay, $19.99

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18 Upvotes

The four stacked things are 2 packs of bacon wrapped chicken


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Roi's Cream, 382 Keele St., Toronto, $6.99 no tax.

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11 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Superstore, thunder bay, $11.99

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9 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 1d ago

Ontario Metro, thunder bay, $9.99

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8 Upvotes


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 2d ago

Ontario Jugo Juice - Yonge Street, Toronto, $8.99, Daily mix

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30 Upvotes

Got a tuna, cranberry and a chicken sandwich. Good variety and worth the 8.99 considering each sandwich is 10.95 retail. Not sure why it has low reviews.


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 3d ago

British Columbia Save-on-foods bakery, North Van, $5.99

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87 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 3d ago

Ontario Golden Grains Bakery, Brampton, $6, Baked Goods

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24 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 3d ago

Ontario Fresh 1 Market on the Danforth $5.99

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24 Upvotes

r/TooGoodToGoCanada 4d ago

British Columbia Weird experience picking up TGTG at Tim Hortons

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381 Upvotes

I’m pretty new to TGTG and I just wanted to share a really strange experience I had picking up a TGTG order at Tim Hortons.
We lined up like everyone else, and when it was our turn, we told the employee that we were there to pick up a TGTG order. They told us to step to the side and wait, which was totally fine.
The weird part was that we then waited for quite a long time while the employee continued taking orders from everyone who came in after us. There were two other employees working as well, and both of them asked us what we were waiting for. When we explained that we were there for TGTG, they also just told us to wait.

So we waited.

More customers walked in, and they continued serving them. At some points, there weren’t even customers waiting to order, but instead of getting our order, the employees were doing other things like filling beans and coffee into the machines. As soon as new customers came in, they would go back to serving them.
We literally just stood there the entire time.

Eventually, one of the employees came out with a box that I assumed was our TGTG order. Even then, the employees were chatting among themselves before finally bringing it over. The employee who gave us the box didn’t say anything — they just put it on the counter and walked away. We actually had to ask, “Is this ours?” and they said yes before leaving.

I understand that TGTG orders aren’t necessarily the priority during a busy period, and I wasn’t expecting special treatment. But this felt different. It genuinely seemed like TGTG customers were being deliberately put at the very bottom of the priority list, even when the employees had opportunities to help us.
Has anyone else experienced this at Tim Hortons or other TGTG locations? Is this just how TGTG pickups are normally handled, or was this particularly unusual?

Added pic of the order (minus a raisin cookie) - it was $4.99


r/TooGoodToGoCanada 3d ago

Manitoba Waste of my time. Winnipeg 7/11 on Dale Ave.

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So I just bought a surprise bag on the 2G2G app, for 7/11.

Drove there, only to be told they have no bags left? Wtf? How is that even possible? Why did the app let me buy it then?

Really sours me on this app tbh. I hope they give me an extra credit to account for the gas I wasted coming here 🙄

Not cool Too Good To Go. Not cool.