Major UK retailer offers FREE childrens meals for the school summer holidays
KIDS will eat free at a major UK retailer during the summer school holidays to help parents with the cost of living.
Home, garden and leisure retail The Range is offering free kids meals in its in-store cafes.
The free food offer is to help make it easier for parents to keep the children entertained and help family finances go further in the summer break.
The scheme is available in the majority of home, garden and leisure retailer’s stores throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Customers can enjoy this offer, which launched on the July 20, by simply purchasing at least one full, adult main meal.
Kids dishes include both hot and cold meal options such as a kids’ Pick ‘n’ Mix sandwich selection or cooked to order breakfast, fish and chips, chicken goujons and more.
All kids meals include a drink, and piece of fruit to encourage healthier eating.
Meanwhile, the adult mains within the offer also include a cooked to order breakfast, along with options such as a burger, pizza, pies, pastas and a variety of curries.
A list of the qualifying meals for kids and adults, along with the deal’s terms and conditions, can be found below.
Qualifying Meals for Kids
Children can choose from a variety of meals, including:
- Kids Breakfast (Served until 11 am)
- Fish & Chips: Served with Peas or Beans
- Chicken Goujons & Chips: Served with Peas or Beans
- Vegan Chicken Goujons & Chips: Served with Peas or Beans
- Sausage & Chips: Served with Peas or Beans
- Vegetarian Sausage & Chips: Served with Peas or Beans
Qualifying Meals for Adults
To redeem a free child’s meal, adults can choose from the following main meals:
- Large Breakfast
- Fish, Chips & Peas
- Burger, Chips & Salad
- Southern Fried Chicken, Chips, and Coleslaw
- Chicken Tikka Masala
- Sweet Potato Curry
- Lasagne and Garlic Bread
- Vegetarian Lasagne & Garlic Bread
- Mac and Cheese
- Steak Pie with Chips and Peas
- Pizza (Cheese, Pepperoni, Veg, Meat Feast)
The offer is valid for children under the age of 16. One free child’s meal per adult main meal purchased.
Meanwhile parents who are looking for cost saving hacks in the summer holidays can check out these tips shared by a single mum-of-four.
The woman, known on her social media pages as Mummy Budgets, took to her TikTok page to post some of the ways she’s kept the costs down.
This included making sure her “stockpile” is full at the start of the month, as she noted: “Little trips to the shop add up, and it helps with impulse buying.”
She takes “daily walks” with the kids – who are 14, 13, six and one – adding “this helps me when I’m feeling overstimulated” and “also helps the kids burn off energy”.
She does her best to avoid eating out, going for picnics in the park and packing snacks ahead of going out.
But she does treat the kids to a meal out on a Friday, as they go to IKEA.
“Meatballs and mash is only £2.45 and a kids’ pasta is only 45p,” she explained.
“This is actually cheaper than cooking at home and gives me a break.
“The kids’ meal is decent and comes with a drink and a piece of fruit also.”
Where can kids eat for free this summer?
THE summer holidays are here, but entertaining the kids need not cost a fortune.
Here, we reveal where you can get free and cheap meals for your little ones during the ‘endless’ summer holidays.
ASDA CAFE: Nip into an Asda cafe to feed the kids after the weekly shop.
Under-16s get a hot or cold meal for £1 at any time of day.
Little ones are covered, too.
Kids under 18 months get a free Ella’s baby food pouch with any purchase.
BEEFEATER: This family-friendly pub chain makes mornings a breeze.
Two kids under 16 eat for free with the purchase of an adult breakfast for £10.99.
It’s available from 6.30am to 10.30am midweek and 7am to 11am at weekends.
BELLA ITALIA: Book a table and order an adult meal at the Italian eatery for kids aged two to 11 to get three courses and a drink for £1.
Offer valid between 4pm and 6pm on Sundays to Wednesdays.
On Thursdays, kids eat free all day when an adult meal is ordered from the a la carte menu.
DUNELM: Make homeware shopping a fun day out.
Dunelm’s Pausa Cafes are offering free kids’ meals for every £4 spent on their food or drink.
Available all day, every day.
BILL’S: Dine in at a Bill’s restaurant to get up to two free kids’ meals (normally £6.95 each) with an adult meal.
Valid weekdays only until August 30.
IKEA: Make it a food day at the Swedish home store.
On every day except Fridays, enjoy a pit stop at their famous cafe from 11am to get a kids’ pasta or mac and cheese dish for 95p.
Other mini meals are available for £1.50.
PIZZA EXPRESS: Kids up to age ten can get a free three-course Piccolo meal including dough balls, pizza or pasta and dessert with every adult meal purchased.
The offer runs every day until August 11.
TESCO: Pop to the supermarket cafe from Monday to Friday until August 30 for free kids’ meals when an adult buys any item in the cafe.
You must have a Clubcard to redeem the offer.
THE RANGE: Kids under 16 get one free meal per adult main purchased at The Range cafes.
Options include sandwiches, a cooked breakfast and fish and chips.
All kids’ meals come with a piece of fruit and a drink