Co-op meal deal: the £6 frozen food offer

You can get five items for your freezer for £6 at the Co-op. Here's how the offer compares to some of the more popular food offers available from rivals.

The Co-op’s frozen meal deal allows you to choose five different items for the freezer for £6.

Sadly, the price of this meal deal was hiked last year from £5 to £6 in another blow to hard-pressed family budgets.

Is this deal still worth going for? Let's take a closer look.

Get five items for the freezer for £6 

The Co-op’s 'freezer filler' deal allows you to choose five different items, including Margherita pizza and ice cream bites for just £6. 

But if you're interested, you'll need to be quick, as the latest Co-op deal will only be around until 14 February.

Let's take a look at what's on the menu, before comparing it to rival offers.

What you get and how much you can save

This offer is ideal if you want to pick up food that you can stick in the freezer as it includes:

• Birds Eye wholegrain chicken nuggets (190g)
• McCain lightly spiced potato wedges (650g)
• Goodfella’s thin crust Margherita pizza (452g)
• Goodfella’s stonebaked thin garlic bread (218g)
• Magnum classic almond and white chocolate ice cream bites (140ml)

You'll save £9.85 compared to buying the items individually.

How it compares to rivals

Despite the price hike, the Co-operative Food meal deal is still £6 cheaper than the Tesco Finest and M&S Dine In deal – or £4 cheaper than the new £10 M&S Chicken Feast offer.

However, it's worth stressing that it is a far more limited food offer.

The £12 Marks & Spencer meal deal lets you choose a main, side and starter or dessert while Tesco offers a Finest main, side, pudding and bottle of wine or a pack of soft drinks.

M&S also recently launched a £10 Chicken Feast Dine In offer where you can get a main and three sides.

The above deals include complete meals that are good to go, while the Co-op offer is more about picking up items to use gradually as parts of other meals.

Ultimately, it comes down to personal taste and preference.

But given that Tesco’s Finest meal deal, which offers better value than the M&S Dine In deals, includes a bottle of wine worth over a fiver on its own, the Co-op deal probably isn't as good value.

Finally, and forgive us for pointing out the blindingly obvious here, the Co-op option is purely frozen.

So, if you want flexibility on when you actually eat it, the Co-op deal has a clear advantage.

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