The Valentine’s Day supermarket meal deals to know for date night

The annual celebration of all things love is here. And while it should be a joyous occasion, the pressure (and price tag) that often comes with it can be anything but blissful. But by ditching busy restaurants and opting for a cosy night-in with fuss-free food, Valentine’s Day can be the perfect opportunity to celebrate. As ever, supermarkets are pulling out all the stops, serving up Valentine’s Day meal deals to fall in love with.

While offers vary by supermarket, these dine-in options include everything you need to impress your Valentine. One of the most popular options hails from M&S, but it hasn’t yet revealed its menu. Tesco, however, is offering a stellar-sounding three-course menu, as well as a drink (you’ll have the choice between wine, cocktails or a non-alcoholic beverage) for just £15.

To help you decipher where to shop, read on for the guide to the best supermarket Valentine’s meal deals, which will be updated as new menus are unveiled.

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Waitrose’s Valentine’s Day meal deal includes a starter, main, side, dessert, and a drink to share, for £25. While it’s £5 more expensive than last year’s offering, you can save up to £23 on the food this year.

With 35 food options and 11 drink choices, there’s something for everyone. To start, dishes include camembert bake and dough balls, and scallops and king prawns with roasted garlic butter. Mains are equally as luxurious, ranging from beef wellington and sea bass fillets with gremolata butter to mushroom wellington for veggies. To complement, you have the choice of seven sides, from green vegetable medley to potato dauphinoise and triple-cooked fries. For the finale, you could be digging into a chocolate and raspberry mousse, caramelised biscuit cheesecakes or melt-in-the-middle chocolate puddings.

It’s not just good food on offer because within the meal deal, you’ll also get drinks for the table. You can opt for prosecco (the exact bottle that took the top spot in our review of the best prosecco), as well as rosé, shiraz and sauvignon blanc. For cocktail lovers, you can cheers to a pre-mixed negroni, old fashioned or ciroc cosmopolitan. But there’s also a range of alcohol-free options, including DA-SH raspberry-infused sparkling water.

The Waitrose Valentine’s Day meal deal launches on 10 February.

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Sainsbury’s has unveiled a 40-item menu for its Valentine’s Day meal deal, but you’ll need to have a Nectar card. The supermarket’s offering includes starters, mains, sides, desserts and drinks (for two people) and costs just £18.

You can start the meal with burrata and chorizo arancini, scallop gratin, or a baked camembert. The centrepieces include hake, sirloin steak, or a butternut squash and chickpea pie. To complement your main, there are eight sides, from hasselback potatoes with pink peppercorn butter to hot maple carrots.

Lest we forget dessert. You can choose between a range of sweet treats, including chocolate and pistachio melt-in-the-middle pudding, lemon tart, sticky toffee pudding, profiteroles and more. Raise a glass to love with a prosecco or an alcohol-free sparkling rosé.

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For Morrisons’ Valentine’s Day meal deal, you can choose a starter, main, side, dessert and drink for £7.50 per head, saving up to £16.75.

Every diner is catered for. The meal could begin with a prawn cocktail, a tear-and-share camembert heart-shaped wreath, or scotch eggs. For your main, serve up a rump steak with peppercorn butter, pulled beef lasagna, or a ‘marry me’ chicken, while for veggies, there’s a five cheese mac and cheese.

Sides include creamed spinach, garlic flatbread and dauphinoise potatoes, but save room for chocolate and orange cheesecakes, or for a comforting treat, the winterberry crumble.

The drinks selection is one of the most extensive this year. The soft drinks include San Pellegrino and London Essence crafted sodas, alcohol-free beers and Kylie Minogue’s alcohol-free sparkling rosé. For alcoholic tipples, there’s Peroni Nastro Azzurro gluten-free beer, as well as white, rosé, red wine and prosecco.

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Tesco is hoping to send foodies’ hearts a-fluttering with its Tesco Valentine’s Day meal deal, which includes starters, mains, desserts and drinks for two, all for £20. To kick off the meal, serve sundried tomato and burrata arancini with basil pesto, scallops topped with creamy mash or vegan-friendly mushroom parcels.

New mains this year include a salmon and prawn en croûte with cheddar cheese and prosecco sauce, ‘marry me’ chicken kiev with a sunblush cherry tomato and cheese sauce and beef pies with a red wine jus. For vegans, the mushroom stroganoff pie with portobello, porcini and chestnut mushrooms in a creamy sauvignon blanc sauce is your choice this year.

Tesco’s sides include an array of potato dishes – from triple-cooked fries topped with parmesan, baby potatoes and sweet chantenay carrots and a heart-shaped rosti. There’s also samphire, petit pois and sliced cabbage with a mint dressing.

For sweets, whether you opt for banoffee pudding, white chocolate delice hearts or salted caramel mousse with a caramelised biscuit crumb, you’re in for a treat. Drinks include popular canned Moth cocktails, as well as red, rosé, white wine and prosecco. Non-alcoholic options encompass the alcohol-free sparkling Nozeco and other favourite fizzy drinks – we’ll cheers to that.

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Coming in at £5 per head (if you’re a member), the Co-Op’s Valentine’s Day meal deal is ideal for those looking to bring down costs – plus it's available in store and online for three days after the day itself. The dine-in menu includes a main meal, a side and a drink from Co-op’s premium irresistible range.

Despite its lower price, the selection sounds just as mouth-watering and varied as more expensive options. You have the choice of nine mains and six sides, so there’s something for everyone to dig into. New mains on the menu this year include rump steaks (with a heart-shaped truffle and black garlic butter, no less), and a chicken and portobello mushroom pie. For an indulgent veggie option, there’s an aubergine parmigiana layered with basil pesto, mozzarella, and pecorino cheese. Diners can pair these mains with sides from buttered mash and rich dauphinoise potatoes to lighter choices like a vegetable medley or a baby leaf salad.

To wash it down, Co-Op is offering a bottle of prosecco, an alcohol-free sparkling drink, or elderflower presse.

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For £6 per head, loved-up diners can choose from a 46-item list of starters, mains, two sides, a dessert and an alcoholic or non-alcoholic drink.

To start, you could be tucking into scallops in a creamy cheese sauce with champagne and topped with a panko crumb or vegan brie hearts. As for mains, there’s sirloin steaks, salmon fillets, ‘marry me’ chicken, and, for vegan diners, butternut squash, caramelised onions and apricot wellington. For your choice of two sides, consider triple-cooked chips or, new this year, garlic and herb baby potatoes.

Desserts are equally appealing, with cherry and chocolate tarts and macarons on the menu. Asda is also the only supermarket offering a cheese board instead of a dessert, including a blue, vintage cheddar and Red Leicester.

Toast the occasion with a choice of non-, low or alcoholic drinks – whether that’s a prosecco and red or Kylie Minogue’s alcohol-free sparkling rosé.

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