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• UPDATE - My mother expects me to be her retirement plan/fund her lifestyle when I'm barely making ends meet as it is.

  Flashfood Check the Flashfoods app for deals on meat and produce. Flashfoods shows stores where food is near end date/ end of line/ reduced prices. You purchase directly via the app and then pick up the items purchased at the store. Olio Operating similarly to Facebook Marketplace, helps by letting users post photos of any leftover food they have, along with a description... Source: 11 months ago

• Food donations

  Try this https://olioex.com/ And their app. Surplus items are listed on the app and anyone who wants can request them. The priority is food waste prevention, many users are struggling and use it to supplement, but you don't have to be. Why the concern about if someone "needs it"? Would you prefer to carry on throwing it away, and paying for commercial waste disposal? Source: over 1 year ago

• Place to sell/give away student textbooks?

  You could try Olio, it's a (free) app for sharing free stuff, including non-food stuff. Https://olioex.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Emergency pay day loans, who do I go to?

  To help with the cost of living have you tried services like Too Good to Go and Olio. Source: over 1 year ago

• Sick of this.

  You can get free food on the Olio app: Https://olioex.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Places that can help with food?

  Here's an explainer on how to get help from a food bank - it won't be much good this weekend but get calling for a voucher first thing on Monday. Where are you in Bristol? There's free lunch on offer today from 1:30pm via FoodCycle at Wellspring Settlement in Barton Hill BS5 if you can make it. Also if you have time and transport download the Olio app to collect food from people clearing out their cupboards or... Source: over 1 year ago

• How to survive on £15 a week for food?

  Check out the olio app for free food items, to mix things up a bit as well. It's not something to rely on but if you're in London, you'll hopefully have a nearby volunteer picking food up regularly and distributing it via the app. Source: over 1 year ago

• I have £38 left of overdraft and £29 of that is going on bills. I have no idea what I’m going to do

  If you can,try olio, https://olioex.com/ , it brings up local partners that are distributing free food for people , that might help tide you over. Its usually the same group every time it pops up on the app and they get collections frequently from local supermarkets. Source: over 1 year ago

• Please give me your boxes!

  There are also frequently free boxes given out on the OLIO app. Source: over 1 year ago

• Buy Nothing Group Created For Glasgow

  I would checkout OLIO https://olioex.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Why keep leftovers if you never eat them and let it go bad?

  Do you have Olio in the USA? It is a community thing, app driven, where people can share food they have, that they can't use (while observing safety and use-by dates, of course.. Source: over 1 year ago

• Lads, what do you do with your Lynx Africa gift sets?

  Olio is also a good way to give away unwanted stuff to local people. It is an app primarily for sharing excess food, but they do non-food as well. Source: over 1 year ago

• Landlord wants to charge all tenants for removal of someone's old furniture.

  Try giving it away by listing it on the OLIO app https://olioex.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• food assistance on a sunday

  You could check Olio. There might be something in your area. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Time wasters on gumtree

  If you’re looking to list things for free I’ve had better luck with Olio (https://olioex.com). Maybe because it’s a smaller pool of people using it but I’ve found people either show as they say they will or communicate they won’t. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Those who faced 2008 recession. What financial preparation helped you to ride the storm?

  Check out Orio App - https://olioex.com Here households co-ordinate collection of excess food from supermarkets, rebag and redistribute. You go onto the app, find a distributor near you (you can also become one), and message / select for the food you want. You then get a confirmation and you go and collect. Very polite and anonymous, usually bagged and labelled with your name ready for collection. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Favorite Frugal-Related (indirectly or directly) Websites, Youtube Channels, Online Resources? Would love to hear any and all you have found valuable!

  Resources like doctorofcredit.com, edx.org, trashnothing.com, buynothing.com (app), olioex.com/ (app) have been so beneficial in so many ways - sometimes that means just being able to share it with someone who could be helped by knowing about it! Of course, all of the resources through my library - like Kanopy, Overdrive, Linkedin Learning, Hoopla, etc so great as well. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Free Food Options

  Olio - free food often offered Https://olioex.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• being signed off work for depression. and then seeing firsthand how hard it is to live on benefits. 19 days until i get money and i have none left.

  Try the following Food sharing aps: https://olioex.com Sign up: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/how-to-get-free-or-cheap-food/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• is there a reddit for people down on their luck that are hungry and need a food donation or anything along those lines?

  Not sure if Olio is active in your area but they have a network of groups that collect near end of shelf life stuff from shops and give it away for free. Source: almost 2 years ago

• I bought these dried figs, but I am not loving them on their own. Does anyone have a recipe or idea for using them? I hate to just throw them away.

  Check out this food sharing app that is geo location based https://olioex.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago