6 Apps That Will Cut Down Your Grocery Bill

Looking to save money and reduce food waste—especially in light of today’s soaring food prices? These five services help you do just that, from buying surplus pastries to scoring on-sale produce to even sharing the contents of your fridge while you’re away.

Here, six apps to save money on food from local grocery stores, restaurants and more.

Too Good to Go

Buy surplus food in "surprise bags"—including prepared meals, produce, baked goods and more—for cheap from more than 11,000 restaurants, cafés and grocery stores across all 10 provinces. 

Flashfood

Use the Flashfood app to buy discounted produce, meat and other groceries either in surplus or nearing their best-before dates from more than 1,000 supermarkets across Canada.

Tre'dish

Available as both a web-based service and an iOS and Android app, this grocery delivery program cuts down on food prices by skipping brick-and-mortar locations and allowing shoppers to buy directly from food wholesalers. The grocery prices are up to 30 per cent lower than traditional big-box grocery stores, and GTA-based delivery is a flat rate of $6.99—even less if you sign up for a delivery subscription.

FoodHero

This platform teams up with participating Metro and IGA stores, among others, in Quebec and New Brunswick to sell surplus food. Thousands of new items are added at 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. daily.

Olio

About to go on a trip but have a fridge full of groceries that you don’t want to go to waste? Use this free app to share food—and other items—with your neighbours and vice versa. 

Odd Bunch

This subscription service—available in Toronto and Quebec—delivers boxes of imperfect and/or surplus produce right to your door at up to 40 percent less than what you’d pay at the supermarket.

Need cheap and delicious recipe ideas? Here are 18 low-cost meals we love, plus a $10 lentil soup that leaves you with lots of lunch leftovers and a $20 tofu stir-fry that tastes better than takeout.