Ultimate tips to get the most from your Tesco Clubcard… from meal deal tricks to secret codes & how to save £100s a year

MILLIONS of america bash our play store astatine Tesco, but thousands of shoppers are missing retired connected discounts worthy hundreds of pounds each year.

Many of these dynamite offers and fantastic freebies stem from the Clubcard, which celebrates its 30th day this week.

A 3rd of the UK population, astir 22 cardinal people, person the celebrated bluish savings paper yet each year, up to £18million-worth of points spell to waste.  

Shoppers are majorly missing out, according to Britain’s Coupon King Jordon Cox, who’s a regular connected This Morning.

Here the bargain-hunting expert shares his eventual usher Clubcard of tips, tricks and hacks to assistance Sun readers get the astir bang for their buck.

How the Clubcard works

Clubcard Prices

In 2019, Tesco announced its caller ‘Clubcard Prices’ successful store. Technically they were inactive the aforesaid multi-buy and percent discount offers connected items successful store - but you had to person the Clubcard to get them.

As annoying arsenic it whitethorn be, if you spell buying successful Tesco, you bash request the Clubcard to get the cheapest terms in-store. Otherwise, you’ll beryllium paying afloat terms for everything.

It’s precise elemental to get the Tesco Clubcard. You tin either person it connected your phone, arsenic a carnal paper oregon a cardinal fob.

Clubcard Plus

If you walk much than £80 a period buying astatine Tesco, you should beryllium a Clubcard Plus member.

Clubcard Plus is Tesco’s subscription work that costs £7.99 a month.

In instrumentality for membership, you get 2 10 per cent disconnected vouchers a period to usage connected your large shops. There’s a £200 maximum walk for each voucher, which means astatine astir you’d prevention £20 a shop.

But if you person a large family, oregon bash astatine slightest 1 large store implicit £80 a month, it pays for itself.

As a bonus, you besides get 10 per cent disconnected Tesco's F&F covering astatine immoderate clip - truthful if that’s your prime of style, you tin prevention wealth connected it.

There’s besides a one-month escaped proceedings erstwhile signing up too, truthful if you person a large nutrient store coming up, but don’t privation to wage the subscription fee, conscionable motion up for the period and cancel aft you’ve got your discounts.

New personalised offers

Tesco has started trialling caller personalised Clubcard offers, that lone you tin claim.

It takes a look astatine what you usually walk wealth on, and sends you offers that tin beryllium redeemed erstwhile scanning your Clubcard astatine the till - but nary 1 other tin get them.

For example, you mightiness get Pringles for £1.25 connected the personalised Clubcard offers, whereas for everyone other it’s £2 to bargain in-store.

You tin presumption your offers connected the Tesco app and astir past for a week. You tin bargain arsenic galore items arsenic you similar too!

Doubling up your vouchers

For each £1 you walk in-store, you’ll gain 1 constituent connected your Clubcard. While that lone equates to 1p successful existent wealth - it rapidly adds up if you store determination a lot.

But the champion usage for your vouchers, which are sent quarterly, is to treble them up with 1 of their retail partners. This tin see taxable parks, restaurants, hotels oregon adjacent a Disney+ subscription.

For each 50p you exchange, you’ll get £1 successful vouchers, but it’s astir apt a bully thought to measurement up which retailer to speech them for.

Quite a fewer including taxable parks specified arsenic Alton Towers oregon Thorpe Park, and restaurants specified arsenic Pizza Express regularly connection money-saving vouchers elsewhere.

You tin get wealth disconnected taxable parkland introduction for buying promotional Kellogg’s packs, for example. So it’s champion to usage your hard earned Clubcard vouchers connected thing harder to get a discount on.

Meal woody tricks

Clubcard terms DIY repast deal

I inactive retrieve erstwhile repast deals were £3… but present unluckily owed to inflation, you’ll wage £3.60 with a Clubcard oregon £4 without.

But if you weren’t acceptable connected getting a perfectly packaged sandwich and acold portion - you tin really make your ain ‘DIY repast deal’ for cheaper.

For illustration - you tin prime up a battalion of 4 sausage rolls for £1 connected a Clubcard price, a immense stock container of crisps for £1 and a tin of Tesco branded lemonade for 55p.

That comes to £2.55 - a full £1 less, and you’ll get considerably much food. The powerfulness of Clubcard prices passim the store means you could find immoderate cheaper alternatives.

Hot drinks included successful repast deal

There’s a small concealed to the humble repast woody that not galore radical cognize astir too.

Have you ever seen those Costa blistery drinks machines successful store adjacent to the repast woody section? That’s due to the fact that blistery drinks are included arsenic a portion successful your repast deal.

These Costa blistery drinks tin outgo £3+ connected their own, which considering the full repast woody terms is £3.60 with a Clubcard, makes it a precise bully pick.

You tin take betwixt a Latte, Mocha, Americano, Hot Chocolate oregon tea. Make definite you don’t adhd immoderate other syrups that adhd outgo connected apical excessively - arsenic they aren’t covered.

Earning other points

Coupons successful magazine

Not galore radical are aware, but Tesco has a escaped in-store magazine, usually recovered by the tills.

In each monthly issue, determination are coupons that tin beryllium ripped retired of the magazine, and utilized connected your play shop.

Sometimes you’ll find wealth disconnected circumstantial items, portion others springiness you bonus Clubcard points if you prime an point up and scan the coupon.

It’s worthy checking the mag each period to spot if there’s thing you tin use.

Give household members a fob

If you person a Clubcard, but radical who unrecorded with you bash not, you tin bid cardinal fobs for escaped from the Tesco website to administer to radical successful your household.

Having 2 oregon 3 radical collecting and pooling points into your 1 relationship volition gain you vouchers adjacent faster than before. Not to notation the Clubcard prices volition prevention them wealth successful store too.

Reclaim points & wealth if you hide your Clubcard

If you permission your Clubcard astatine home, oregon adjacent hide to scan it (we’ve each been there), there’s inactive a mode to recoup your mislaid points and in-store offers.

Keep clasp of your receipt. If you inactive person it, you tin instrumentality it to the lawsuit work counter, and inquire for the points to beryllium added.

Also - if you’ve missed retired connected in-store offers with the Clubcard prices, you’ll get a currency refund connected those too.

Obviously it’s easier to scan your paper successful the archetypal place, but arsenic a past resort, it’s a utile option.

Recycle aged ink cartridges

If you’ve got immoderate bare ink cartridges from printers successful your location - you tin really gain Clubcard points for them!

Find ‘The Recycling Factory’ Inkjet cartridge recycling envelopes, successful store, implicit the gaffe including your Clubcard number, and instrumentality it to the recycle container successful store adjacent the checkouts. 

You’ll gain up to 125 points per cartridge (worth £1.25), and you tin bash it up to 100 times a year. So it could beryllium a bully wealth spinner.

Shopper Thoughts

There’s an absorbing mode to gain much Clubcard points, by sharing your thoughts.

A website/scheme called ‘Shopper Thoughts’, allows you to implicit surveys successful speech for Clubcard points.

You person to motion up and hold for surveys to beryllium sent to you. They typically instrumentality astir 15 minutes each and gain you 100 points (£1 successful points).

If you person spare time, and don’t caput filling retired surveys, it tin beryllium an casual mode to boost your Clubcard balance.

Clubcard cash-ins

Tricks to ace codes connected Clubcard terms labels

There’s a instrumentality to find retired however agelong Clubcard offers person near connected them portion buying in-store.

If you work the ‘Clubcard prices’ statement of immoderate point connected sale, you’ll spot a six digit number.

This tells you the day of expiry, but successful reverse. For example, if the codification reads ’250218’, but you work it backwards successful blocks of 2 - you tin find the expiry day of 18/02/25.

It’s a useful extremity to cognize erstwhile to banal up connected an point earlier the terms goes backmost up.

Check if you person expiring vouchers

Clubcard vouchers are lone valid for 2 years but they tin beryllium rather casual to miss.

In the past, Tesco would nonstop vouchers retired successful the post, whereas present you tin presumption them connected the app. The 1 occupation is radical mightiness hide them.

So it’s worthy checking into your Tesco Clubcard relationship respective times a twelvemonth to marque definite you’ve utilized up each of your vouchers, and your hard-earned points are spent. 

Trick to widen your vouchers

Clubcard vouchers bash expire and if you person a ample denomination voucher (such arsenic a £10) getting adjacent to expiry - there’s a instrumentality to support it progressive for longer.

With bigger worth vouchers similar this, you don’t person to walk them each successful 1 go. So if you bash person a £10 voucher. You tin walk 50p of it connected a bonus spouse reward of your choice.

If you bash this, the remaining £9.50 near connected the voucher, resets its expiry day by different 2 years.

Christmas savers scheme

Christmas tin beryllium a precise costly clip of twelvemonth and if you privation to prevention up for it early, Tesco has a diagnostic to fto you bash that.

You tin articulation Tesco’s Clubcard Christmas Savers scheme, which allows you to prevention your Clubcard vouchers into a abstracted cookware passim the year, acceptable to usage successful November/December for Christmas.

There’s besides a diagnostic to apical up this relationship with your ain wealth - up to a maximum of £200. If you do, you’ll get a bonus £12 successful escaped vouchers to spend.

It’s lone a bully thought if you cognize for definite you’ll bash your nutrient buying astatine Tesco, different you’ve got wealth locked in.