Frugal Food

This week we bring you the latest M&S meal deal and some cracking offers on whiskey, gin and champagne. We show you how to get £10 off your next pizza delivery, and how to get a two-course restaurant meal for just £5. And of course, we've got all the top supermarket food deals and voucher codes.

Best supermarket deals

This week, I'm going to start with the best offers at ASDA. This ASDA Classic Christmas pudding is still reduced from £2.18 to £1; and you can now pick up 12 ASDA mince pies for £1, reduced from £1.76.

Several Goodfella's Delicia pizzas are still on sale for just £1, reduced from £2.38; and various varieties of Shloer sparkling juice drink have also been reduced to £1, from around £1.90.

At Tesco, you can still pick up lots of reduced Christmas treats including Mr Kipling Christmas Pudding reduced from £5 to £2 and a big Tesco Finest Matured Christmas Pudding reduced from £10 to £5.

In the fruit and veg aisle, a 2 for 1 deal means you can currently get ten oranges for £2. Finally, there's still an excellent deal on Ragu cooking sauce: 500g jars are usually £1.69 each, but you can currently pick up two for just £1.

Good deals at Sainsbury's include apricot punnets reduced from £3.99 to £1.49, and 350g of asparagus spears reduced from £2.99 to £1.49.

Ten-packs of Birds Eye Omega 3 fish fingers are now just 98p (reduced from £1.96); and one litre bottles of Filippo Berio extra virgin olive oil are now half price, down from £6.99 to £3.49.

Lidl deals include this assorted six-pack of McCoy's crisps for 73p, 21 bags of Walkers crisps for £1.99, boxes of Ferrero Rocher for £2.25 and 200g jars of Nescafe Gold Blend for £4.

Over at ALDI, the Super 6 fruit and veg offers include 2.5kg of baking potatoes for 49p, cucumbers for 29p each, pineapples for 69p each and and three-packs of peppers for 69p.

At the Co-op you can now pick up 400g boxes of Cadbury Milk Tray for just £2.80 (usual price £6) and two boxes for After Eight Mints for £3 (usually £3 each). And you can get into the festive spirit with their cut-price sprouts; 500g bags have been reduced from £1 to 50p.

Morrisons is still running several excellent 'buy one, get two free' promotions. Deals include three 165g boxes of king prawns for £3.99, and three 70g bags of Phileas Fogg crisps for £1.56.

And finally, Marks & Spencer has just released its latest 'dine in for £10' meal deal. As usual, it includes mains, side dishes and desserts for two, plus a bottle of wine. It runs from now until Sunday 13th December, and you can view the full menu here.

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 lovemoney.com readers in your local area can take advantage of the offer you've flagged up. Thanks!

Tipple

At ASDA, one litre bottles of Bombay Sapphire Gin are still reduced from £23.61 to £14. And 700ml bottles of Bushmills Original Irish Whiskey are now just £12.46.

This is down from admittedly crazy original price of £29.76 - but it's still a good deal at the reduced tag. No expiry date has been given for either of these offers, however, so do check the links before heading out to the shops.

There are several excellent bubbly deals around, too: ASDA is selling Pierre Darcys Brut Champagne for just £10, reduced from £23.98. And at Marks & Spencer, you can now pick up Louis Chaurey NV in-store for £12.99, reduced £25.99.

For more great deals on tipple, read Bargain booze for the festive season!

Best restaurant deals

As Christmas approaches, the best restaurant deals are beginning to dry up. However, there are still great offers out there. As always, the newest deals appear at the top of the table.

Cut price snacks

To track down free snack and drink samples, have a root through the food, drink and recipes section of the Bob's Free Stuff forum. If it's edible and free, it's likely to be posted there!

If you fancy a free cup of something, visit the Yorkshire Tea website and register to receive your free sample. It's one freebie per household, and they only deliver within the UK.

And Millie's Cookies is still offering an online voucher booklet, offering various 2 for 1 deals on cookies, hot drinks and treatboxes. The vouchers are valid until 28th February, and you can print off the booklet here.

Voucher codes

You can currently save £10 on your first online order with Tesco, as long as you spend £50 or more. Just enter the code XX-PD96 at the checkout.

This code expires on 31st December, and you can find out more about it here.

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...

Paul Warburton - lovemoney.com's resident chef - has surpassed himself in producing a seasonal 'Frugal recipes' extravaganza.

Over the next two weeks he'll show you a starter, a main, a dessert and what to do with the leftovers for a family of six - all for £7.49 per person. Some of it can even be prepared in advance!

To find out how to prepare a delicious frugal starter, and for the ingredients you'll need for the rest of the meal, read Frugal Recipes - Christmas Special!

More: The best Christmas food bargains | Watch out for this Christmas shopping rip-off!

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.