Saving Donuts from the Dumpster

Colourful and saccharine donuts from Punk Rock Pastries

A friend of mine has a relatively new hobby -- picking up food for cheap that would otherwise go into the garbage.

He is constantly checking a Danish-based app called Too Good To Go, which promotes businesses that have leftover food items that can be purchased at a cheaper price and picked up the same day.

I asked if the deals were mostly towards the end of the business day, but he said they were posted all the time and even snapped up quickly if your fingers aren't fast enough to secure the deal.

With the price of food up 10 percent in Vancouver, people are looking out for deals to fill their stomachs.

The other day my friend picked up two boxes of donuts from Punk Rock Pastries in Burnaby (he lives in East Vancouver). I don't know how much they cost, but they were definitely a colourful (and very sweet) treat.

The toppings were saccharine, while the donuts were fluffy, they were quite sweet too. 

Although my friend likes the concept of not wasting food, he also looks at it as an opportunity to sample something new relatively cheaply, and if he likes it he'll go back and maybe pay full price for it.

Perhaps the most ironic thing is that he has been picking up mostly cakes and donuts when his previous mantra was to invest his calories in alcohol than desserts...