We tried Too Good to Go, the app that lets you buy leftover Twin Cities restaurant food for cheap

How it works: Over 50 Twin Cities metro businesses, ranging from local bakeries to liquor stores to Whole Foods, offer up "surprise bags" of leftover food at random times throughout the day.

• Most cost between $6-$10 and are valued at over double the price, but you won't know what's inside until you pick it up.

What happened: Of the five bags I ordered, four were packed with an enormous amount of delicious leftover food — including a $7 bag from La Boulangerie Marguerite with nine pastries and a sandwich and a $7 "peach surprise" bag from the Produce Exchange that contained 19 peaches.

• See inside the others, including what happened with the leftover Whole Foods deli bag, over on our Instagram.

Reality check: Many of the surprise bags sell out within minutes, and the pick-up times are often at odd hours.

• It took three tries to get that pastry bag and when I did nab one, I had to grab it at 7am.