Food

Supermarkets try all sorts of tactics to make us spend more, and a trick of the eye means you could be missing out on the best value items every time you go shopping. It’s all about where products are positioned on the shelves, with stores tending to place more expensive items at average eye-level, hoping we’ll grab...

If you’re gluten-free, wheat-free or have coeliac disease you’ll know the cost of free-from food adds up, but if you know where to look in the same supermarket, you could make big savings without compromising on ingredients. This is the latest in our supermarket aisle secrets series – in the last couple of weeks, we’ve uncovered world foods discounts, and baby aisle...

Easter and the four-day weekend are over, but you can cheer yourself up with some cracking deals on Easter chocolate. Retailers have now slashed the price of loads of Easter-themed items, meaning you can now grab a 12-pack of Creme Eggs for £2 at Sainsbury’s – effectively 17p per egg – also 25p Malteaster bunnies at Tesco, 50p...

If you’ll be in London between now and this Sunday (28 Jan), there’s an easy way to bag yourself some FREE Cadbury chocolate… Simply head to 57 Greek Street in the capital’s West End (W1D 3DX), and you’ll find Cadbury’s ‘Glass and a Half’ pop-up newsagents – where it’ll be handing out free chocolate bars in exchange for...

With Christmas behind us, love it or hate it, shops are already filling their shelves with Easter goodies. Now chocolate giant Cadbury has hopped on the marketing frenzy with an early Easter hunt to find limited edition white chocolate Creme Eggs to win between £100 and £2,000 – quite the Golden Ticket indeed (see where we’re going with this)....

If you want a pizza the action but you’re low on dough, there’s a coupon and deal stack you need to know about – you can get a £2ish Goodfella’s pizza free… If you print a coupon from Goodfella’s, you can get £1 off one of five types of frozen pizza – thin, deep, deli de lusso, gluten...

Nothing beats free food in my opinion, and there’s a new daily prize draw that anyone can play – completely free of charge – where the prizes are edible. Win A Dinner has just launched, giving you the chance to win food prizes every day in its totally free lottery. It works exactly the same as other...

MSE Update Thu 5 May 1.25pm: This blog was first published last week, so please note some of the offers may have ended. We’ve kept the blog live for reference. I’ve seen some big discounts in my time, but even I was left speechless when I stumbled upon this trick to get £60 of online Sainsbury’s shopping FREE. As...

Now Christmas is over, both supermarkets and other retailers are slashing prices and festive chocolates, sweets and biscuits are being sold off at a fraction of the price. When it’s gone, it’s gone though, so go quick if you want to stock up. If you’re not thinking of giving up chocolate as a New Year’s resolution (and you won’t eat it all in...

There are often deals at Domino’s offering 2for1 or up to 50% off a minimum spend on pizzas, but these usually involve buying food for several people (and only on specific days). If you just want a single pizza, any day, you have to be a bit more creative. That’s how we stumbled upon this trick to...