From free food and drinks to cashback playing cards, Cash Saving Amy shares her helpful hints and ideas because the cost-of-living disaster rumbles on

Amy Grayland has teamed up with the Specific & Star to assist readers reduce prices

Hi there everybody.

I’ve received some nice cash saving ideas for you all this week and I actually hope these assist households by the summer time holidays.

Foods and drinks

Plenty of the supermarkets, pubs and retailers are providing low cost and even free youngsters meals this summer time. Asda, Ikea, Hungry Horse, Morrisons and extra are providing free or very low cost youngsters’s meals. Some offers require an grownup buy and a few don’t.

My private favorite one is Tesco Children Eat Free. You may get a free youngsters sizzling meal, which incorporates choices comparable to sausages, fish fingers, hen goujons or mac and cheese plus a vegetable facet and an extra facet comparable to chips or garlic bread. Plus youngsters get a drink of water, milk or juice included too. Or you may select a youngsters packed lunch free of charge, which features a sandwich, drink, piece of fruit and two snacks. You may get these free of charge with the acquisition of any merchandise within the cafe, in my native Tesco the most affordable merchandise I may see was an 85p bottle of water, there have been additionally issues like gingerbread males and chocolate bars for simply £1. Buying a number of objects means a number of free meals. You have to be a Clubcard holder to entry this provide. For those who fancy a chew to eat for your self too, you may seize a toasted tea cake for less than £1.60, a breakfast bap would value you £3.50 or a jacket potato with filling simply £4.95. For those who’re treating your self to a sizzling drink, taking your personal reusable cup would prevent 25p.

At my native Tesco they even had little exercise/sticker books out there free of charge subsequent to the packed lunches, so we took these residence to play with, not solely that however I used the paper luggage that the packed lunch got here in to set my youngsters up a play procuring sport at residence!

Morrisons are providing free crumpets by to the August 13. You merely go right into a Morrisons cafe and “ask for Ellen” to obtain two crumpets with butter and jam. The provide is legitimate for one portion per particular person, per day. You may even ask for vegan butter.

At IKEA, youngsters can eat from simply 95p for pasta, and simply £1.50 for a meal comparable to fish, chips and peas, with a mushy drink and a bit of fruit included. Sizzling canine and vegetarian sizzling canine in Ikea are as little as 60p too! Plus you may get a free sizzling drink, tea or espresso, each Monday-Friday at IKEA with a household card. Be sure you additionally try the Ikea web site as they’re working free actions for youths over the summer time holidays.

O2 precedence are providing a wide range of free food and drinks at present, they’re usually including new affords so you’ll want to examine the app often. Do you know you can even entry o2 precedence as a Virgin media buyer? You may get a free Greggs sizzling drink (even a big drink!) Monday – Friday, on prime of a free sausage roll/vegan sausage roll, sizzling drink or breakfast bap each Friday and Saturday.

O2 precedence additionally at present have numerous different free offers comparable to a free pint of Strongbow, a free youngsters monster meal at Pizza Hut (no different buy required) and most lately, a free youngsters meal at Frankie and Benny’s (grownup buy required).

Money again apps

There are such a lot of sensible money again apps. My present favorite being “Jam doughnut”. That is an app that you just buy present playing cards from for a variety of outlets and eating places, comparable to Tesco, Aldi, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Ikea, Pizza categorical, Nando’s, B&Q and so many extra. If you buy a present card, you get prompt cashback into your Jam doughnut pockets, when your pockets reaches £10 or extra you may withdraw the cash. That is such an excellent solution to generate profits again on the cash you’re already spending! The money again charges differ from round 1.75 per cent as much as round eight per cent and infrequently, these charges get boosted. Plus Jam Doughnut do a day by day prize the place 10 individuals win £10 within the “day by day doughnut” part of the app.

These present playing cards work the identical as every other, each will say how lengthy they final for, normally it is a 12 months or extra. You pay with the present playing cards on the until simply as you’ll with any cost methodology, the cashier will simply scan the voucher as a substitute of you paying along with your card or money. Don’t fear if you happen to purchase a present card and it doesn’t cowl the entire store, you merely pay the distinction along with your common cost methodology on the until. For those who purchase a present card and it nonetheless has some remaining on it after your procuring, you merely use the remaining subsequent time. Don’t neglect, you may nonetheless scan your reward apps when utilizing a present card, so not solely are you getting money again, you’re nonetheless getting your rewards comparable to Tesco Clubcard factors or Asda rewards money.

These present playing cards may also normally be used along with affords comparable to Pizza Specific affords, that is usually an excellent one to deal stack to get essentially the most to your cash.

For those who use my referral code, EHRY, when signing as much as the Jam Doughnut app, you’ll obtain a £2 bonus in your first buy.That is an app you actually don’t wish to be lacking out on, you may be getting tons of of kilos again per 12 months simply on groceries alone. For those who add in meals out and purchases for garments and residential objects, there’s a variety of cashback to be made.