No splinters in my ass but I agree with both sides on this healthy debate.
I'll buy this but the pizza & garlic bread will accompany a salad, the onion rings with low fat quorn burgers & salads, the wedges with whatever & the ice cream as a pud or treat, its not in the contract to eat it all in one go is it?!

The problem is that "people with not a lot of money" are being enticed with cheap junk food. It would be really easy for the Co-op (and other supermarkets) to offer deals like this but with much healthier options, but they don't - they are contributing to the obesity crisis. My wife works with people on lower incomes/benefits, who need help with their weight - and one of their main complaints is the price of "healthy" foods.

I'd love to see a healthy options £5 meal deal once in a while - it's not impossible.

They also appear to make you a self righteous pain in the ........

These deals make you fat...

FYI The exchange for the onion rings is the frozen corn on the cobs

No splinters in my ass but I agree with both sides on this healthy debate.
I'll buy this but the pizza & garlic bread will accompany a salad, the onion rings with low fat quorn burgers & salads, the wedges with whatever & the ice cream as a pud or treat, its not in the contract to eat it all in one go is it?!

My local co op run out of onion rings so we got corn on the cobs subbed, improved the meal deal in my eyes! No idea how to find out if you can sub them in any store, but if you can that should please anyone looking to be healthier

Yeah I get that - I'm not disputing the fact that you can buy cheap veg and make your own healthy meals. My issue is more around these offers on junk food ready meals and so on, and the heavy promotion of unhealthy options. My local co-op has plenty of fresh fruit and veg, and other healthy choices, but pretty much every "promotion" or offer is for chocolate, sweets, junk food, crisps, etc...
I just wish that once in a while they'd do an equivalent of this £5 meal deal but with healthier ingredients - sweet potato wedges, quorn, low fat burgers/sausages, frozen yoghurt/sorbet, etc...

Healthy and fresh food is not expensive. Poor decisions/shopping habits and laziness in cooking are to blame. You can buy a bag of carrots, parsnips, potatoes, pasta and sauces, tins of beans, bread for next to nothing and make several meals from them for under £5.

Yes

You can swap out the icecream for others in the same range like this

it's just a shame they don't have a similar cheap deal with healthy/diet / low fat meals. since starting to try to lose weight my food bills have more than doubled.

Why do people have to make snide comments,but a family with not a lot of money,would be a god send,once a month a meal like this is OK all the time,then it's a problem.

Ah, thanks for that! I assume it's on the side of the screen?

Does anyone know if the NUS card discount can still be applied with self checkout?

Great offer. Heat added! Thanks

Haha, you called it.

Heat ! Self righteousness is the bane of HUKD.
A deal is a deal, wether someone thinks it's s*** or not. Keep a civil tongue and if you don't like it a civil negative comment is sufficient.

Oh come on....of course you can interpret tone in written text - people do it all the time. Your second sentence began with "you clearly have no concept..." then you said "maybe you need to aim your snipe", etc... and I interpreted that as being slightly hostile. Put it this way, you wouldn't speak like that to someone's face and expect a positive reaction, would you? There was just no need for that sort of tone.

Be careful with the subs - it is only the popping candy ice cream with a barcode that ends 117. I bought two deals , but only one went through. When we checked, although the two popping candy cartons were identical, they had different barcodes! So, two deal, plus two of the own brand nice pizzas reduced to £1.25 each, with nus discount total comes to £11.25.
Before the health police come along, these will be used with lots of other things (i.e. The garlic bread with pasta etc) and not all eaten together

i was told the only alternative to the ice cream is the one I listed in the description.

There was no hostility. How you interpret 'tone' in written text I really don't know? At the end of the day supermarkets are purely businesses that aim to make money and they all make plenty of that so from their perspective why change anything? As consumers we are free to make choices and supermarkets provide plenty of choice. Every one I go into has plenty of offers too on fresh fruit and vegetables.

Why the hostile tone? Sorry I criticised those poor innocent supermarket giants! I don't mind who funds the promotions - the supermarket or the manufacturers. Besides, if it's down to the manufacturers, then the supermarket should be pressuring them more. Think of the PR wins they'd get if they were able to do this.

True, but its cos most healthy foods have a lower mark up &/or profits to play with I believe.

wow! at last a deal suitable for vegetarian (i hope), just need to check instore.
usually they always have some sort of meat products in their deals
so hot from me

Wow! Awesome! Only onion rings I don't like there!

Cracking for a fiver, maybe have some grapes for pudding though

Perfect in theory. But you clearly have no concept of how supermarket deals are funded. They don't just take losses on products. 'Deals' are subsidised by the manufacturers to raise sales. Supermarkets don't lose out. So maybe you need to aim your snipe at the manufacturers of the healthier products as they are the ones not offering them for promotion making them easier to afford for all?

Lets get back to what this site is for....is this a deal? Yes (Hot) or No (Cold) simple. I will be voting Hot!

can u choose the sub even if first choice is there in stock?

it used to be that poorer people were skinny. Now the poorest in society contribute heavily to the obesity epidemic. How so? Cheap processed junk food.. 'bogof' wanna go large? All you can eat.... :confused:
Haha, apologies to OP....thread derailed

it used to be that poorer people were skinny. Now the poorest in society contribute heavily to the obesity epidemic. How so? Cheap processed junk food.. 'bogof' wanna go large? All you can eat.... :confused:
Haha, apologies to OP....thread derailed

I just think it's a poor do that access to healthy, tasty food is extremely limited for those that need guiding. People will opt for this **** as it's literally forced down our necks at every turn..

5,600 calories for this meal, enough to feed 10 people. Just sayin...

Oh, I'm liking this one! Thank you!

Looks fair this time...

Is this available nationwide

These deals make you fat...

I will throw up now. Saves me doing it later after I've eaten this rubbish.

Shame I've already used my coupon for the free Goodfellas pizza!

This is a great deal, I think this is one of the best for quite a while!