Frugal Food 26th March 2010

by Serena Cowdy on 26 March 2010  |  4 comments
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This week we bring you new restaurant deals from Giraffe, Café Rouge, STRADA and Burger King. We also have better-than-half-price Easter eggs, a new 2 for 1 deal from Greggs, a chance to get free Thorntons chocolates, and free `grow your own' goodies!

Every Friday, we round up the week's top food shopping bargains, supermarket vouchers and restaurant offers. If you register on lovemoney.com, you can follow this blog and find new posts as soon as they are published, via your personal homepage. Never miss a frugal food bargain again - register now.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Frugal food. Let’s kick things off straight away with the best grocery deals around.

Best supermarket deals

This week, I’m going to start with some good deals at NETTO. You can currently pick up 500ml pots of Ben & Jerry’s Mango Berry Swirl sorbet for just £1. You’ll have to be quick though, as this offer ends 28th March.

Also at Netto, six cans of Fanta, Lilt, Dr Pepper or Sprite will cost you £1.49 (reduced from £2.85).

Over at LIDL, you can get 1kg of red grapes for just £1.49.

And at ALDI, all Super 6 fruit and veg deals are currently 59p. This includes five-packs of lemons, 500g bags of white seedless grapes, and whole pineapples.

Morrisons is now selling eight unsmoked rashers of back bacon for 99p (down from £1.98) and 12 white rolls for 30p.

Other good Morrisons deals include Pizza Express Margherita pizzas, reduced from £4.99 to just £2 each. And you can still get 36 Jaffa Cakes for £1.29, down from the usual price of £2.59.

At Tesco there’s a 2 for 1 deal on Aero chocolate mousse, meaning you get eight pots for £1.19. And whole legs of lamb are half price, down to around £3.98 per kg.

There’s also 50% off a wide range of Dr. Oetker Ristorante pizzas, with most reduced from £2.59 to £1.29.

And finally, there’s a better-than-half-price deal on several types of Easter eggs: Many larger eggs are reduced from £5.49 to £2.50.

Top offers at Sainsbury’s include Freedom Food-endorsed whole chickens, reduced from £4.54 to £3.02. The 50% off Dr. Oekter pizza deal is happening here, too.

And there are still several good deals on Easter eggs, with a range of eggs reduced from £2 to 95p.

• Watch our  video: The lovemoney.com annual Easter Egg taste test

Finally, ASDA deals include two better-than-half-price offers: 1l bottles of Ribena Really Light (with no added sugar) have been reduced from £2.68 to £1. And - although boxes of Go Ahead bars are usually £2.14 each - you can currently pick up two for just £2.

There are sometimes much better deals on offer at street markets and independent shops than there are at the supermarkets. Unfortunately, their local nature makes it impossible for us to cover them properly here.

If you’ve come across a great food deal at your local market, please do leave a comment at the bottom of the article letting us know. That way, fellow readers in your local area can take advantage of the offer you’ve flagged up. Thanks!

Tipple

At Netto, you can now pick up 18 440ml cans of Carlsberg for £10 (down from £13.99).

ASDA currently has a good deal on Baileys: You can now pick up 1l bottles for £9, reduced from £14.

And at Somerfield/The Co-op, you can now get two large crates of beer or cider (usually £10.99 each) for £16. Brands on offer include Bulmers, Stella, Budweiser and Carlsberg - and the offer ends 30th March.

Best restaurant deals

As always, new and extended deals appear at the top of the table.

Cut price snacks

You can now bag a 2 for 1 deal on muffins at Greggs. Register here, print the voucher and present it in-store to get two Sticky Toffee, Sicilian Lemon or Triple Chocolate muffins for the price of one.

You’ll have to be quick though, as the offer only runs until 28th March.

There’s a good deal on Thorntons chocolate that’s currently available when you shop via Quidco: When you spend £15 or more, you’ll get 10% cashback AND a free box of Continental Paris milk chocolates, worth £11.99.

You can find out more about the deal here. Just remember that the offer expires 29th March.

You can currently get a free cup of coffee at Giraffe just for turning up! Pop in to your nearest Giraffe on a Wednesday before 10.30am, and claim your free Americano, latte, cappuccino or herbal tea.

The offer is only valid on Wednesdays before 10.30am, and runs until 16th June. Just remember that it’s only valid on classic-size, takeaway drinks, and is not valid at restaurants in airports.

Voucher codes

You can now get 15% off your first shop at Ocado when you enter the code VOU1155403 at the check-out.

As always, various terms and conditions apply: You’ll need to spend at least £40 to make the saving, be a new Ocado customer, and have your order delivered before 31st March.

Voucher code promotions tend to be withdrawn quickly. If you’ve missed out on this one, you can use the following websites to track down new voucher codes as and when they come up:

HotUKDeals

MyVoucherCodes

SavaCode

SupermarketVoucherCodes

ShoppingCodes

SupermarketCoupons

And finally… free ‘grow your own’ goodies

If you want to try your hand at fruit and vegetable gardening this year, now’s the time to get started.

The BBC gardening site is giving away free seeds as part of its Dig In campaign. If you’re successful in your application, you’ll receive a packet of each of the five ‘Dig In’ veg - mixed salad, courgette, french bean, basil and carrot. You'll also get a booklet explaining how to grow them.

At the moment, you can also download a series of free ‘grow your own’ advice cards from the Garden Organic website. They’ll teach you everything you need to know about growing vegetables, fruit, herbs and even edible flowers!

Every Friday, we round up the week's top food shopping bargains, supermarket vouchers and restaurant offers. If you register on lovemoney.com, you can follow this blog and find new posts as soon as they are published, via your personal homepage. Never miss a frugal food bargain again - register now.

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.