Frugal Food 17th February 2012

by Chiara Cavaglieri on 17 February 2012  |  1 comment
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This week we’ve got new and extended restaurant deals from Café Rouge, Slug and Lettuce, La Tasca, Ask, Chiquito, Auberge and Azzuro. Plus, get a free burger with your drink at Scream pubs, various burgers for only £1.99 in February and March at Burger King, two for one Blueberry Burst Doughnuts at Greggs, 50p off Sacla, 30p off Vitalite and Oatly Fresh, free cookies with your hot drink at Esquires Coffee, a free bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bubbly and get £10 off a £30 spend at Papa John’s!

Welcome to this week's edition of Frugal Food.

Best supermarket deals

This week we’re going to kick off with the best deals at the Co-op. You can grab Elmwood fresh British extra large pork leg joints for £3.49 per kg (was £6.99) and fresh British extra large beef roasting joints for £4.99 per kg (was £9.98), while it’s buy one get one free on on Burtons Jammie/Toffee Dodgers (usually £1.15 each) and Fox's Ambers (usually £1.45 each). Häagen-Dazs ice cream is half price (now £2.42) and Chicago Town deep dish pizzas are down to £1 (was £2.17).

At Tesco look out for half-price deals on John West tuna, now £3.49 for four cans, new season plums, now £1.50, organic blueberries, now £1.99, pre-packed leeks, now £1, Pilgrim’s Choice extra mature, now £2.24, Tesco German sausage selection, now £1 and Red Dog Frankfurters, also reduced to just £1.

You can also buy packs of Petits Filous Frubes for £1 (usually £2 each), Tesco jaffa cakes (36) for £1.50 (was £1.67), and get buy one get one free on Hula Hoops sharing bags (usually £1.85 each). There’s also savings on De Cecco pasta (reduced from £1.56 to 78p for 500g), Napolina pasta (reduced from £2.19 to £1.50 for 1kg), and the Tesco brand (reduced from 95p to 80p for 500g).

If you fancy an Italian feast there are some fab deals at Sainsbury’s too including two for £2 on Taste the Difference ciabatta (usually £1.30 each), buy one get one free on Montorsi Negroni parma ham (you pay £4 for both), two for £3 on pancetta (usually £2 each) and two for £2.70 on filled tortelloni (usually £1.65 each).

Other deals include half-price clementines (now £1.50), loose seedless grapes for £3.98 per kg (was £4.98 per kg), a dozen of Sainbury’s Woodland free range eggs for £2 (was £2.50), mild edam slices for £1 (was £1.50), duck legs for £2.50 (was £3.50), two whole quails for £3 (was £4), Taste the Difference pheasant fillets for £4 (was £5) and a whole partridge for £3 (was £4).

Then at Asda it’s two for £2 on selected Kingsmill (you save 10p) and Soreen apple loaf (you save 50p), two for £1.50 on New York Bagel Co (you save 50p) and Asda Bakery cookies (you save 50p) and  two for £1 on peshwari naan (you save 34p).

It’s also two for £3 on various frozen fishy treats such as Jamie Oliver Pollock fishcakes (you save 96p), 8-packs of Asda beef burgers (you save 50p), packs of ten Young’s Chip Shop fish fingers (you save 70p) and packs of ten Young’s 100% fillet cod fish fingers (you save 70p).

This weekend the half-price deals at Lidl are: 8 British pork sausages for 74p, 750g of British leeks for 59p, 150g of hand cooked potato crisps for 49p, and Nescafe Original 3 in 1 white coffee with sugar sachets for £1.09. Remember you can only get these deals on Saturday and Sunday.

Remember, if you want to check where your shopping basket will be cheapest each week, head over to MySupermarket!

Finally, check out the special offers this week from online gourmet butcher Westin Gourmet which includes 21% off streaky unsmoked bacon (now £9.36 for 2.27kg), 15% off Coppa (now £11.53 for 80g), 19% off mature cheddar (now £15.83 for a 2.45kg block) and 31% off a whole corn fed chicken (now £10.13 for a 1.5kg bird).

Cheap tipple

At Lidl you can buy 2 litre bottles of Woodgate dry cider for £1.69 (was £1.95), save £1 on Tarragona Gran Reserva red wine (now £3.99) and grab four-packs of Bavaria premium beer for £2.99.

At Tesco Wine grab a case of Sancerre Feuille de Vigne at half-price – only £48 for six bottles – when you enter the code WS3W7P at the checkout now.  

Best restaurant deals

As always, new and extended deals appear at the top of the table. For the section covering regular and ongoing deals, go to the bottom of the page.

Foodie deals 

There is a new arrival at Greggs…the Superstar Doughnut Blueberry Burst and to celebrate, you get two for one when you visit Greggs Facebook page before Saturday 3rd March and follow the instructions for a printable voucher.

At Burger King selected burgers are only £1.99 – see here for the details. Fill in your email address here and print out the vouchers (valid in February and March).

If you’re shopping this weekend, check for any vouchers to cut costs:

• Sacla is offering 50p off its Sacla Sundried Tomato Paste with this coupon, valid until 19th February.
• Get 30p off Vitalite 500g when you enter your details here and print the coupon. Expires 21st February.
• Get 30p off Oatly Fresh (oat drink) when you redeem this coupon at your local supermarket by 26th February.

Foodie freebies and comps

Check out the latest freebies for foodies!

• Esquires Coffee Houses are giving away free cookies when you buy a hot drink. Use this voucher throughout February (one per customer, per day).
• Grab a free bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bubbly chocolate on the Tesco Facebook page – there are 10,500 freebies to give away.

Plus…free recipes from celebrity chefs

Big fan of Jamie Oliver, Fay Ripley or Bill Granger? Head over to our sister site, www.lovefood.com where you can find heaps of free recipes from your favourite celebrity chefs.

Voucher codes

Get £10 off your total bill at Papa John's when you spend £30 (including drinks, sides and desserts). Use the code VCSPE30 online (or quote the code over the phone) before it expires on Wednesday 29th Feb.

For new Sainsbury’s customers only, save £10 when you spend just £50 using the code PNND-79P7-QDTL before it expires 3rd March. For other supermarket voucher codes use VOU7482491 for £20 off first orders over £80 at Ocado (expires 19th February). First-time Tesco shoppers can save £10 on a £50 shop using the code XXRXTY.

Ongoing Pizza Hut Delivery codes include VCHNETPXK for £10 off when you spend £25 (expires 11th March), 50% off orders over £35 with VCHFTZPBE (expires 11th March), and VCL999DXS to get any size pizza for £9.99 Monday to Thursday only. 

Voucher code promotions tend to be withdrawn quickly. You can use the following websites to track down new voucher codes as and when they come up:

HotUKDeals

MyVoucherCodes

Promotionalcodes.org.uk

RestaurantVouchers

SavaCode

SupermarketVoucherCodes

ShoppingCodes

VoucherCodes

Facebook deals

Every day lovemoney.com is now posting all sorts of great deals and discounts exclusively on our Facebook page. So be sure to like us on Facebook to take advantage of frugal deals every single day of the week, not just Friday!

Regular deals

This is where you’ll find the restaurant and retail deals that run on a permanent or ongoing basis. 

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Every effort is made to source voucher codes which are valid at the time this article is published. However, please be aware that lovemoney.com cannot guarantee that every voucher will be valid or that it will not be withdrawn by the provider immediately.