Save £100s a year with our ULTIMATE Tesco Clubcard tips… from meal deal tricks to secret codes

MILLIONS of us do our weekly shop at Tesco, but thousands of shoppers are missing out on discounts worth hundreds of pounds every year. Many of these dynamite offers and fantastic freebies stem from the Clubcard, which celebrates its 30th birthday this week. A third of the UK population, around 22 million people, have the famous blue savings card yet each year, up to £18million-worth of points go to waste.

Shoppers are majorly missing out, according to Britain’s Coupon King Jordon Cox, who’s a regular on This Morning. Here the bargain-hunting expert shares his ultimate guide Clubcard of tips, tricks and hacks to help Sun readers get the most bang for their buck. Clubcard Prices. In 2019, Tesco announced its new ‘Clubcard Prices’ in store. Technically they were still the same multi-buy and percentage discount offers on items in store - but you had to have the Clubcard to get them.

As annoying as it may be, if you go shopping in Tesco, you do need the Clubcard to get the cheapest price in-store. Otherwise, you’ll be paying full price for everything. It’s very simple to get the Tesco Clubcard. You can either have it on your phone, as a physical card or a key fob. Clubcard Plus. If you spend more than £80 a month shopping at Tesco, you should be a Clubcard Plus member. Clubcard Plus is Tesco’s subscription service that costs £7.99 a month.

In return for membership, you get two 10 per cent off vouchers a month to use on your big shops. There’s a £200 maximum spend for each voucher, which means at most you’d save £20 a shop. But if you have a big family, or do at least one big shop over £80 a month, it pays for itself. As a bonus, you also get 10 per cent off Tesco's F&F clothing at any time - so if that’s your choice of style, you can save money on it.

There’s also a one-month free trial when signing up too, so if you have a big food shop coming up, but don’t want to pay the subscription fee, just sign up for the month and cancel after you’ve got your discounts. New personalised offers. Tesco has started trialling new personalised Clubcard offers, that only you can claim. It takes a look at what you normally spend money on, and sends you offers that can be redeemed when scanning your Clubcard at the till - but no one else can get them.

For example, you might get Pringles for £1.25 on the personalised Clubcard offers, whereas for everyone else it’s £2 to buy in-store. You can view your offers on the Tesco app and most last for a week. You can buy as many items as you like too!. Aldi: Look for red stickers near closing time, offering up to 75% off perishable items and 30% off damaged packaging goods. Asda: Discounts happen twice daily, in the morning and evening. Early risers can find fresh produce for as low as 10p.

Lidl: Price cuts occur first thing in the morning and before closing. Use the Lidl Plus app for additional weekly promotions. Marks and Spencer: Reductions often occur near closing time. Monthly in-store offers and combo deals, like the £12 Dine In for Two, provide extra savings. Morrisons: Yellow sticker discounts appear throughout the day. Register for a More Card to get specific day-based discounts, like 20% off fish on Fridays.

Sainsbury’s: No set discount times; look for yellow ‘reduced’ stickers. Register for Nectar prices for nearly 50% off weekly offers. Tesco: No fixed discount times. Check the "mark-down section" in 300 stores for reduced-price items like salads, bread, and meat. Doubling up your vouchers. For every £1 you spend in-store, you’ll earn one point on your Clubcard. While that only equates to 1p in real money - it quickly adds up if you shop there a lot.

But the best use for your vouchers, which are sent quarterly, is to double them up with one of their retail partners. This can include theme parks, restaurants, hotels or even a Disney+ subscription. For every 50p you exchange, you’ll get £1 in vouchers, but it’s probably a good idea to weigh up which retailer to exchange them for. Quite a few including theme parks such as Alton Towers or Thorpe Park, and restaurants such as Pizza Express regularly offer money-saving vouchers elsewhere.

You can get money off theme park entry for buying promotional Kellogg’s packs, for example. So it’s best to use your hard earned Clubcard vouchers on something harder to get a discount on. Clubcard price DIY meal deal. I still remember when meal deals were £3… but now unfortunately due to inflation, you’ll pay £3.60 with a Clubcard or £4 without. But if you weren’t set on getting a perfectly packaged sandwich and cold drink - you can actually create your own ‘DIY meal deal’ for cheaper.