Asda giving £1 winter meals to shoppers in 205 stores

Asda shoppers tin get a warming wintertime repast for conscionable £1 (Image: Getty)

Asda is giving customers a wintertime repast for conscionable £1 crossed 205 of its UK stores.

The supermarket has brought backmost its fashionable ‘winter warmer’ repast woody for this wintertime to assistance enactment susceptible customers during the colder months.

From present until the extremity of February, customers aged 60 and implicit tin bask tomato, chickenhearted oregon rootlike soup, a rotation and unlimited beverage and coffees for a specified £1 successful immoderate of Asda’s 205 cafes.

More than 60,000 meals person already been served to pensioners this month, which Asda says shows however “vital” the woody is crossed this property group.

The £1 connection is disposable each day, each day, until February 28, 2025, and volition tally alongside the supermarket’s ‘Kids devour for £1’ deal. It means that grandparents tin bring on their grandchildren and devour successful Asda’s cafes for arsenic small arsenic £4 (two adults, 2 children).

Ian McEvans, Asda’s Commercial Vice President Fresh and Frozen said: “We cognize wintertime is acceptable to beryllium incredibly hard for thousands of pensioners arsenic they proceed to interest astir however to support themselves lukewarm successful the look of rising surviving costs and connected a fixed income.

"We’ve already served 60,000 meals to the implicit 60’s successful the archetypal 2 weeks, and since its motorboat 1.2 cardinal meals person been sold showing the captious request for this initiative. By bringing Winter Warmers backmost for 2024 and extending it until February we anticipation it volition beryllium conscionable arsenic impactful crossed the wintertime months for those who request it most.”

Asda’s Community and Customer Champions are besides inviting section implicit 60’s groups and individuals to travel on to their store Chatty Café to usage the £1 Winter Warmer repast arsenic an accidental to travel and chat to others. 

It comes aft Asda’s caller Christmas Community Report recovered millions of older radical deficiency quality enactment and conversations during the festive period, with 1 successful 10 not definite they volition talk to anyone betwixt December 15 and January 1.

Additionally, selected Asda stores are moving a ‘Community Cuppa’ run successful the cafes by creating abstraction for assemblage groups who whitethorn different conflict to conscionable owed to precocious rental oregon vigor costs. 

Spaces volition beryllium disposable connected weekdays successful November and December from 2pm to 6pm and each assemblage radical members who sojourn volition person unlimited escaped beverage oregon coffee.