Waitrose - £10 Dinner for 2

Smiley82

Seems Waitrose are doing the £10 Dinner for 2 - I haven't seen it before with them, so not sure if it's a new thing, or I have missed it. Looks like a fab buy anyway!! Valid between the 6-12th January.

Either way, the deal is below:

You can choose one option from each of the following categories for £10:

Meat or prawns:
Waitrose Raw, Peeled Indonesian King Prawn Tails
Small Chicken Breasts x2
Lamb Steaks
Aberdeen Angus Lean Mince Beef 5% Fat
Aberdeen Angus Rump Steak x2
essential Waitrose Pork Shoulder Steak

Potatoes, pasta or noodles
Soli Spaghetti Alla Chitarra
Mashed Potato
Potato, Carrot & Swede Mash
Fresh Sweet Chilli Noodles
Ready Peeled Maris Piper Potatoes

Sauce or veg pack
Cider & Mustard Sauce
Peppercorn Sauce
Tomato and Basil Sauce
Baby Corn Stir Fry
Tenderstem Broccoli Stir Fry
Baby Leaf Stir Fry
Peas and Sliced Beans Twinpack
Ready Prepped Chefs Selection

Dessert
Fru Wild Blueberry Cheesecakes
Fru Zesty Lemon Cheesecakes
Fru Blackcurrant Posset
Gu Deeply Decadent Chocolate Mousse
Gu Chocolate & Vanilla Cheesecakes
Gu Hot Chocolate Souffles

Wine or chocolates
Nederburg Chardonnay Viogner
Nederburg Shiraz/Pinotage
Lily O'Brian Contemporary Chocolates

billieboy_2

Ha ha was just about to post this. Yes they have done it a few times before. I think the last one was a slowcook meal for two. Seems very good value to me. If you get the Telegraph this weekend where there's a £10 off £50 spend you can save even more money:j:j.

chesky369

I do like Waitrose but I think they'll have to get their act together a bit more if they're going to compete with M & S on this.

Today at 8.30am my very large Waitrose had very few of the main 'meat and fish' course items, but I'd already decided to go for the rump steak which they did have. But the pieces are very small and the packs are all the same price - £3.49 - which eliminates the digging around for the largest and best bargain. The Gu puds are always great so that was OK. But there were two other 'courses' which I got confused, since they seemed to be similar - veg and/or sauces and they didn't have many of them. There was only one choice of red or white wine (or chocolates) which doesn't compare to the M&S variety. Asked if they had some of the other items not on show and was told 'we've got them in the stock shed but we can't get them out yet'.

And at the end, I saved myself £4.46 on five items, and on occasions I've saved myself over £9 at M&S on four items. I think they should have a re-think about what they're doing, since I won't be bothering again.

Kayteehee

Could someome please confirm if there's an option for vegetarians instead of the meat/fish?

Thanks

chesky369

I don't think there can be - which is also not a good selling point. It was pretty much as the OP listed above. Each 'course' has a sticker on it - either 1, 2, 3, 4 (the wine didn't have one), and you have to have one of each type, don't think you can have say, 2 number 2.

Smiley82

No vegetarian option I'm afraid. And I went tonight to buy these and it was like the above posted said - Saved about 4.60 per deal. I did feel they were good quality items though.

Got two deals, however only one went through at the correct price, so I had to line up and get a refund. I would recommend putting through the five items first, just to make sure....or doing them seperate altogether.

I was happy enough....not sure I'd make it a regular thing

Kirri

Very disappointing there is no vegetarian option!

Made_Without

Me too veggies always seem to lose out on offers.

C*F

chesky369

To be fair, M & S always seem to have a veggie alternative in their Dine In for £10 offers; I was really surprised at the haphazard way Waitrose seem to have gone in for this though. I cooked the rump steak last night and, because the pieces were so small, they were a bit overcooked which didn't help. The Gu pud was good though.