The best deals right now for some free or cheap food and drink
From lunch discounts and vouchers to free samples and deals, read on for the best food and drink deals currently available.
We’ve split the supermarket special offers and tea and coffee shop deals over to separate deals pages as there are just so many!
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Online deals
Cadbury: free chocolate bar
From 2 November, you can send a free Cadbury bar to a friend with its Secret Santa Postal Service. You can enter your details to get an email as soon as you’re able to order the free bar.
There aren’t further details about the offer at the moment but this is unlikely to run for a long time so you’ll have to be quick.
Shop deals
Alpro: free barista milk
You can currently claim up to £2.10 back to get a free Alpro barista milk from Asda, Tesco, Sainbury’s, Waitrose or Morrisons. It’s in-store online, not online.
You’ll need to buy the item, request a redemption link and then upload the receipt via that link. You’ll need to submit the claim within seven days of getting the link.
Valid products are:
- Alpro Barista Coconut UHT 1L
- Alpro Barista Oat UHT 1L
- Alpro Barista Almond UHT 1L
- Alpro Barista Almond Chilled Drink 750ml
- Alpro Barista Coconut Chilled Drink 750ml
- Alpro Barista Oat Chilled Drink 750ml
- Alpro Barista Caramel Chilled Drink 750ml
This offer ends at 23:59 on 8 November 2024 or when 5,000 cartons have been claimed, whichever comes first.
If you also refer a friend after claiming the offer you’ll be sent a £1.50 off voucher to use on your next purchase.
Krispy Kreme: Free doughnuts
Download the Krispy Kreme Rewards app to get a free Original Glazed doughnut when joining and another on your birthday. You’ll also get points every time you spend that can be spent in-store.
25% off Krispy Kreme
You’ll be able to get 25% off your doughnuts Sunday to Thursday if you have Meerkat Meals from Compare the Market. There’s a hack that’ll get you access to this for a year for £1, as well as 2-4-1 movies.
Hotel Chocolat: Free treat on your birthday
If you sign up to Hotel Chocolat’s VIP ME scheme you’ll get a free gift on your birthday (I got a free £5 voucher to spend), as well as other offers through the year such as 15% off your next purchase. You can only sign up in-stores.
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Recipe box discounts
We’ve written about recipe boxes in detail here, but below are some special offers.
Gousto: 91% off first box via Quidco
There are often voucher codes for Gousto, but if you’re new to Gousto and go via a cashback site you can save even more.
The deals seem to change fairly regularly and switch between TopCashback and Quidco, so it’s best to check both to see which is best.
At the time of writing, going via Quidco can get 60% off your first box, and up to £15 cashback on top.
So the most expensive box (four meals per box for four people) would normally cost £47.85, but the discount brings it down to £19.14. Add in the cashback and you’ll get the recipe box for just over £4 instead!
If you’re also new to Quidco then take another £20 off on top. When TopCashback offers the best deal there’s a £15 welcome deal. Here’s more on getting these new customer cashback bonuses.
Hello Fresh: 80% off first box via Quidco
If you go via Quidco (this one also switches between the two cashback sites, so check TopCashback too) for HelloFresh then you can get 60% off your first box, 20% off for seven more boxes and £12 cashback on top. When you order the largest box (five recipes a week for four people), it brings the total down to £13.20.
Here you can nab a new customer bonus for the cashback sites too if you’re new to either site.
Hello Fresh: free delivery with Amazon Prime
You can now get free delivery on your Hello Fresh deliveries for a year with an Amazon Prime membership. Delivery usually costs £4.99, so this could save you £20 a month if you get a box every week.
You’ve got to go here and sign in to your Amazon account where you can connect it with your Hello Fresh account. This works if you already use Hello Fresh. You get free delivery for a year if you keep your Prime membership.
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Hi Andy,
I signed up for your news letter, and Quidico as l want to buy yearly subscription for Disney + as l understand l should get £17 cashback but its only showing £10 when l try to buy it. How do l get £17
HI Tina
So the £17 is a bonus and the £10 is the standard cashback offered for a year of Disney+. So you should get a total of £27 back. As long as you signed up for Quidco via the link in my newsletter’s welcome email.
Hi Andy,
Quidco have declined my cashback as they said I put in a voucher code. That’s not the case- the 30% was applied automatically as a new customer. Quidco say Gousto make the decision and Gousto say Quidco make the decision! Is it worth me contesting as I feel very annoyed! Many thanks
Yes, I’d definitely complain. Was this when they offered both the intro cashback and the money off?
Has anyone else had this issue?
Hi Andy,thanks for your email. I signed up on the 11/02/21 and had £20 cashback and 30% off via Gousto. I feel it’s Quidco being difficult and saying I used a voucher code when I didn’t and then saying Gousto make the decision…. I will raise a complaint. I wonder if anyone else has experienced it
Many thanks
And now the £23 odd I had in Quidco this morning has mysteriously disappeared! I haven’t withdrawn it. Has that happened before?
Hi Andy,
I just went via my existing top cashback account and then used a 50% off code and paid £23 for a vegetarian box for 4. My cashback is currently tracking at 68p which is the amount for an existing customer, I’ve never used gousto before so am a new customer with them, do I need to be a new top cashback customer to secure the £20 cashback they’re offering. My understanding from reading your guide above was that providing you were a new Gousto customer you were elligible, am I wrong?
Many thanks
Charlotte
Sometimes it says on the cashback site that “Cashback may initially track at a lower or higher rate and update to the correct rate on confirmation”. Keep an eye on it and if it doesn’t change you can put in a claim via the Quidco portal.
It also looks like the double offer has ended now – gutted I didn’t get around to making the order myself!
Hotel Chocolate have run out of Millionaire Sundae’s it seems 🙁
Hotel chocolat have pulled the icecream offer due to an unprecedented demand. I was planning to go on Sunday
It might be worth mentioning that the BCWYC-223 Approved Food code doesn’t work, but if you register they automatically send you a working code for half-price delivery and I’ve been receiving promotional offers everyday since – all with half price delivery codes.