Frugal Food
Here's our weekly round-up of the best restaurant deals and grocery discounts on offer, plus this week's top supermarket voucher codes!
This week we've got super celebratory discounts at Lidl and lots of new restaurant deals. We also help you get money off your organic shopping, and grab extra cashback at Tesco and Sainsbury's.
As usual, we kick off with the best offers at your local supermarket.
Best supermarket offers
First off, it's definitely worth visiting your local Lidl this week. The deep discounter is celebrating 15 years of UK trading, and to mark the occasion has slashed the price of all sorts of goods.
Great food deals include 15p fresh figs, 15p corn-on-the-cob, ten fun-size pears for 49p, 29p cucumbers, two pizzas for £1 and 500g of Utterly Butterly for just 50p.
At ASDA, you can currently pick two 10-packs of Birds Eye Omega 3 fish fingers for £2 (usual price £1.96 each). Goodfella's Delicia pizzas are also significantly reduced: for example, the 310g pepperoni option is down from £2.38 to £1.
A couple of great deals I mentioned last week are also still running: this four-pack of Branston baked beans is reduced from £2.35 to just £1. And this 500g jar of Homepride Creamy Tomato & Herb pasta bake usually costs £1.37... but you can currently pick up two jars for £1.
At Tesco, there are still several good 2 for 1 deals in the dairy section. You can currently get two 500g tubs of Flora Buttery for £1.50, two 400g packs of Cathedral City Mature Yet Mellow Cheddar for £3.85, and 12 Muller Fruit Corner yoghurts for £2.90.
Fresh pork leg joints (approx. 3.5kg) have been reduced from £20.93 to £10.47. And frozen packs of eight Alaskan salmon fillets are half-price, reduced from £9 to £4.50.
Good offers at Sainsbury's include half-price deals on a range of New York Bagel Co. bagels, all reduced from £1.29 to 64p.
Lots of cakey-type things are also half-price (like these McVitie's loaf cakes) and you can currently get two five-packs of Sainbury's cookies for the price of one (£1).
Morrisons' 'Price Crunch' continues, with Muller Fruit Corner yoghurts for 25p each, a 2 for 1 deal on 400g of chicken breast fillets (£4) and all varieties of Goodfella's pizza (410-434g) reduced from £2.38 to just £1.
And finally, there are two 'dine in with wine' deals to get your teeth into this weekend. The first is the usual £10 deal from Marks & Spencer. This lasts from now until Monday 13th September - and you can view the full menu here.
The second is available at Waitrose, which is clearly intent on stealing some of Marks' thunder. Again, you get a main, a side dish and a dessert for two - plus a bottle of wine - for £10.
The offer runs from now until Tuesday 15th September, and you can have a look at the full menu here.
Tipple
Somerfield is now doing good deals on a range of spirits. You can pick up 70cl of Smirnoff vodka, Bell's whisky, Gordon's gin and Bacardi rum - all for £9.99 each.
Best restaurant deals
It's usually a good idea to set up a separate email address specifically to apply for these deals. That way, all the marketing bumpf you'll receive will be diverted away from your main email account.
The newest offers appear at the top of the table.
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Get 2 for 1 on pizzas when you order online and use the code ARPJ01 |
All day, every day until 22nd September. |
Valid for online orders only, minimum order value £8.99. Not valid in branches at Butlins and Haven holiday parks. |
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Any pizza for £9.99 when you quote the offer (in-store or by phone) or select the offer (online). |
All day, every day until 13th September. |
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Get a starter, a main course and a drink for £10 when you register here and print the voucher. |
All day, every day until 20th September. |
The offer is only valid on the dishes mentioned on the voucher. |
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Two pizzas for £10 when you register here and print the voucher. |
Every Sunday to Friday until 30th September. |
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Buy one main course and get another for £1 when you register here and print the voucher. |
Every Sunday to Thursday until 30th September. |
Not valid on meals from the carne and pesce menu. |
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50% off your food bill when you register here and print the voucher. |
Every Sunday to Thursday until 8th October. |
Not valid on drinks, buffet, set menus, children's birthday parties, happy hour or deliveries. |
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2 for 1 on main courses when you register here and print the voucher. |
Every Sunday to Thursday until 20th September. |
Not valid at restaurants in Center Parcs and Gatwick airport. |
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50% off your food bill when you register here and print the voucher. |
All day, every day until 13th September. |
This offer doesn't cover drinks. |
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2 for 1 on main courses when you register here, print the voucher and buy a starter or dessert. |
Monday to Wednesday - and Sunday after 6pm - until 4th October. |
Not valid at Giraffe restaurants in airports. |
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Buy one main course and get another for £1 when you register here and print the voucher. |
Every Sunday to Thursday until 19th October. |
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50% off your food bill when you register here and print the voucher. |
All day, every day until 13th September. |
The voucher doesn't cover drinks. |
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40% off sushi plates with this voucher. |
Tuesdays and Wednesdays only until 23rd September. |
Up to ten plates per person, drinks not included in offer. Not valid at Selfridges London, Selfridges Manchester Exchange Square, Selfridges Trafford Centre Manchester, Selfridges Birmingham, Westfield London, Heathrow Airport T3, Harvey Nichols Leeds, Dundrum Town Centre and Clarendon St Ireland. |
Cut-price snacks
At budget bakery Greggs, you can still get two steak bakes for the price of one when you register here and print the voucher.
At Millie's Cookies, you can get your hands on a print-off voucher booklet which includes various 2 for 1 deals on cookies and ice cream. The vouchers expire on 31st October.
And you can also claim a free coffee at Pret a Manger. Pick up a free Pret Card in-store, register it on the Pret website and it will be charged with the price of a coffee, up to the value of £2.10. Then visit Pret again and claim that caffeine!
Voucher codes
You can currently get free delivery when you spend at least £50 shopping online at ASDA. Just enter the code M4-CR-M6-Y7 at the checkout.
And you can now get 10% off your online offers at organic food retailer Planet Organic. Just enter the code JD72YQP at the checkout - before 30th September - to get the discount.
You can use the following websites to track down new voucher codes as and when they come up:
Finally... earn extra cashback
If you haven't already shopped online with Sainsbury's or Tesco, you should be able to get some decent money back when you start buying from either of them via TopCashback. There are two main deals on offer:
- If you're new to online shopping with Tesco, you can sign up via the site and get £10 cashback. Better still, you'll also be able to use a discount code (provided on the site and valid until 31st December) to get £10 off your first shop, as long as it comes to more than £50. Here are all the details.
- Alternatively, those new to Sainsbury's online shopping can sign up via TopCashback and get £7.50 cashback on their first shop. You can find the details of the Sainsbury's offer here.
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