Frugal Food - 16 April

by Serena Cowdy on 16 April 2010  |  0 comments
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This week we bring you new restaurant deals from Pizza Express and Ha ha bar & grill. There’s also 50% off wine, Haagen Dazs ice cream at just £1.99 a tub, the chance to get £10 off your Waitrose shop, our big brand taste test and a new Dine In deal from M&S!

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 the latest Dine In for £10 deal from Marks & Spencer. As usual, you can pick up mains, side dishes and desserts for two, plus a bottle of wine, all for £10.

The deal runs for longer than usual this week - from now until Tuesday 20th April - and you can view the full menu here.

At Tesco, top offers include a 2 for 1 deal on Cathedral City Mature Yet Mellow Cheddar. 400g boxes of Quality Street chocolates are half-price, currently just £1.99. And you can still get eight tins of Branston baked beans for just £2.

Finally, 500ml tubs of Haagen Dazs ice cream are priced at 50% off - now £1.99 instead of the usual £3.99 each. Yum!

Over at ASDA, you can still pick up two 400g jars of Nutella for £2 (usually £1.78 each).

And at Sainsbury’s, good deals include 3kg joints of boneless gammon (reduced from £23.97 to just £11.97) and 100g Milka chocolate bars (down from 97p to 43p).

At Morrisons you can pick up six Petits Filous for 75p (reduced from £1.50) and 16 Young’s fish fingers for £1.49 (down from £2.99).

And you can also claim a free Morrisons recipe binder in-store: Register here, print off the coupon you’re sent and take it to your local Morrisons customer service desk to claim your binder. As always, this offer is subject to availability.

NETTO deals include a BOGOF offer on a range of Heinz soups (usually 82p each).

And at ALDI, Super 6 fruit and veg deals include eight-packs of kiwi fruit, 500g of white grapes, whole pineapples and six-packs of pears, all for 69p each.

Somerfield/The Co-op is currently selling 140g bars of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk chocolate for £1 each.

And finally, LIDL deals include mangos at 34p each, and five-packs of Cadbury’s Flake, Crunchie and Dairy Milk bars - all for £1.25 each.

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 ASDA, you can currently pick up 15 300ml bottles of Budweiser for £8, reduced from £12.

And NETTO is selling 24 440ml cans of Carling for £13.99, down from £18.99.

Finally, there is a big sale currently on at Tesco Wine, with many wines and sparkling wines reduced to half-price.

Best restaurant deals

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

Cut price snacks

The latest 2 for 1 deal is still running at budget bakery Greggs: Register here, print the voucher and present it in-store to claim a free baked pizza when you buy another.

The offer runs until 18th April. You can choose two pepperoni pizzas, two cheese and tomato pizzas, or one of each.

Finally, you can still 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

Pick up a copy of The Telegraph on Saturday 17th or Sunday 18th April, and inside you’ll find a voucher to get £10 off a £75 spend at Waitrose.

As usual, terms and conditions apply, so read all the small print carefully. The vouchers are valid between 17th-25th April, and they can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer. They are valid in-store only and can’t be used to buy certain products, including cigarettes, petrol or stamps.

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… our big brand test!

Here at lovemoney.com, we’ve been conducting some tasting experiments.

Do some big name brands really taste better than their ‘own brand’ equivalents? Do any ‘own brands’ come out on top? Or is it impossible to tell the difference?

We tested baked beans, toast, Fruit & Fibre and tea - and you can find out what the results were by watching this video.

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.