Groceries for Free?

Hey Zesties!

I lowkey wanted to gatekeep this, but figured that we’re all in the same never ending cycle of trying to survive in Singapore’s expensive economy. So here’s my entry for this month’s #mindfulspending .

A few years back, I overheard a colleague mentioning about this app called Olio. Olio is a platform where you can choose to give or take free food and non-food items. More often than so, the food option are near or have already reached expiry or best before dates. Non-food items were pre-loved or were extras that someone had.

The app is relatively easy to use. You can choose to either give away food or non-food items, choose to lend the community your items, or even request for specific items. You can also navigate what items you want to collect based on the proximity of your home, and arrange with the Olio user the timings you want to take or allow them to collect. Do note that most of these meet ups are usually at-the-door collections unless stated.

As the saying goes — Another man’s trash is another man’s treasure. You can find so many different gems here. I have found many art materials from the non-food selection such as bubble wrap, table glue, unused spray paint, and even pool noodles.

Olio has also paired up with pandamart to reduce food wastage, and some Olio users have signed up to be Food Waste Heroes, where they claim unsold groceries from businesses and give them a second chance to be redistributed. I’ve gotten perfectly fine bananas, bagels, huge loafs of bread, and recently, 2 different types of salad greens, which I’ve zhnged up to my girl dinner! Not only am I getting a great and healthy dinner, I’m helping to reduce food wastage and ALSO getting my groceries done. That’s killing two (or in this case three?) birds with one stone.

Olio is a free app, and you don’t need any payments in app as well!

#Adulting101 #MyLemon8Diary #OnlyInSG

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