M&S shopper shares how she managed to bag £120 worth of food for just £5

A woman has "hit the jackpot" after managed to bag £120 worth of Marks & Spencer food for just £5, as she revealed how she did it. Shopper Dora Brown collected a Too Good To Go 'mystery bag' from one of the chain's petrol stations, anticipating a modest assortment of items.

However, the 27-year-old was presented with a bulging treasure trove crammed with food such as sandwiches, bread rolls, sausage rolls, soup, salad boxes, dips, pies, pizza, cheese, fruit and a heap of yoghurts. She subsequently totted up the bounty with her partner and was gobsmacked to find it totalled over £120 – nearly 25 times what she had paid.

The self-employed chocolatier was in stitches at the incredible haul, with Dora, from the Lake District, convinced the petrol station location helped her secure such a whopping bag.

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Talking about her bag, Dora told What's The Jam: "We couldn't believe how much food we received. I couldn't stop laughing.

"I think with it being a service station, there's less people able to collect the bags so they have more to give.

"Some of the food we gave away to family and friends but some of it was freezable.

"A lot of people found the video funny and just ridiculous that we got so much food for £5!"

Too Good To Go is a food-waste app that enables shops, restaurants and supermarkets to flog surplus stock at a fraction of the price. Shoppers fork out a modest sum – typically ranging from £3 to £6 – for a so-called "mystery bag" packed with goods approaching their sell-by date, though the precise contents stay secret until pickup.

Despite the enormous scale of the surprise haul – which cost less than a cup of coffee – Dora confesses barely anything ended up binned.

Certain items were popped in the freezer, others distributed amongst mates and relatives, with the remainder consumed over subsequent days.

This encompassed packed lunches for her boyfriend, Josh, 25, to carry to his workplace.

The "lottery" bag represented a special indulgence for Dora, who had only just relocated to a neighbourhood where Too Good To Go operated, though it's now recorded as amongst her greatest bargains to date.

She additionally posted her bounty on TikTok, with watchers amazed at the quantity of grub she secured.

"Sharing is caring," remarked one individual hoping for a windfall.

While another added: "This is wild."