The 11 surprise bags I bought in March 2026
Want to try new restaurants or foods that you wouldn’t normally buy? There’s an app called Too Good To Go where you can buy items that the restaurant has too much of for one third of the retail price. This month, I tried two new restaurants right off the bat! Continue reading
Screenshot of the game — so satisfying when I was able to fufill the orders and especially when it was a difficult item (like that groom item which was the max level)
Glow Tales: Merge & Makeover is a merge game on the Play Store on Android that I made $109.64 from playing (thanks to AttaPoll)! It was super fun and these were my thoughts about it as I was playing it: Continue reading
Indoor playgrounds galore for this generation of kids!
We have been fortunate to visit various kids’ indoor playgrounds in the Greater Toronto Area over the past couple of years thanks to birthday parties and our own playdate outings such that I wanted to create a blog post outlining the ones we visited, including highlights and drawbacks. I will add more to this blog upon more visits, so check back every so often.
My personal favourite indoor playground was Continue reading
Best deal this month — buying a dozen eggs for $2!
Use Flashfood to save money on groceries. Participating supermarkets will post items that are nearing their “best before” dates or items they can’t sell for usually 50% of the price. Sometimes, the discount is more than 50%! You can download the free app to try it yourself. Continue reading
The 8 surprise bags I got in February 2026
You can save money on takeout food and groceries using an app called Too Good To Go. Restaurants and grocery stores will put together a mystery “surprise bag” of items that are close to their “best before” dates and sell it for one third of the retail price. It’s a great way to save money on food and help food from going into the land fill! 🙂 Continue reading
$1 yogurts and milk from No Frills (on Flashfood)
On January 6, 2026, Flashfood increased their service fee applied on every order from 5% to 8% (max of $2.99 per order) without telling anyone. Finding this out infuriated me as a long-time and loyal user of Flashfood.
I wrote a blog post about it and also raised this issue on Flashfood’s Instagram page. I ended up having a phone conversation with the VP of Communications at Flashfood, but they haven’t done anything further about it (like officially announcing the service fee change) which I think is abhorrent and dishonest to their users.
Collage of the surprise bags I bought in January 2026
An app where you can save food from going to waste is called Too Good To Go. Participating restaurants and stores will post “surprise bags” of items they haven’t sold for one third of the original price. Everything is good to eat and you get to try foods you wouldn’t normally choose. It’s fun and environmentally conscious too!
Here is my monthly roundup of the surprise bags I bought in January 2026. I bought 18 this month! Continue reading
The new 8% service fee change on Flashfood, screenshot on January 13, 2026
I’m writing this blog post on a whim upon finding out the new Flashfood service fee because it is appalling, dishonest, and sneaky.
I first started using Flashfood in mid-2023 to buy discounted grocery items at 50% off the retail price because the item was either nearing its “best before date” or the store had surplus stock and needed to sell it. Continue reading
A glimpse of our 2025
Let me start off with saying what I’ve been telling everyone the latter part of the year… 2025 has been a year of endings, both for lives and relationships.
In 2025, we lost a number of Continue reading
14 items for $35.41 on Flashfood, making each one only $2.53!
Use the Flashfood app to buy grocery items for 50% off the usual price. This is one of the best hacks to fight against inflation. You browse the item you want in the app, pay for it, and then pick it up in store before the stated “best before” date. We have saved our family so much money by using this app!
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