Hooray for Tesco Vouchers

Yesterday was a really busy day for our family. We started with Joy's first swim lesson at 9am, then the kids were picked up from the pool and went for a fantastic adventure to Legoland Windsor (I'm a bit jealous!!)

Robin and I took full advantage of having some time to ourselves and I dusted off the Tesco's vouchers I had been saving so we could have a long lazy lunch together.

Before I get to where we went, and the quality of the food, let me just plug the Tesco scheme - for every £2.50 in clubcard vouchers we had £10 to spend on food in our chosen restaurant. The only thing I don't like about the scheme is that it's a little fiddly to send the vouchers back to have them converted into different vouchers (???!!!) and would be much simpler if you could just use the original vouchers or something!

I think it makes the vouchers go a lot further if you do opt for one of their deals, we keep our grocery bill pretty low and as a result don't collect all that many points, but hey - we got a free lunch using them this way!

Well, in Oxford the choice is fairly limited but we chose Cafe Rouge, and I'm so glad we did. The food was delicious, the service great, and it was fairly quiet with a great atmosphere. We spent just £5 extra on top of the vouchers and both had a number of courses (Robin 3, me 2), drinks and coffee to finish off. A real bargain! (we'd not have been able to afford such a treat just now)
It probably all tasted better as it was almost a freebie! (Robin had a couple of interesting choices of food btw - so you should check his blog to see if he's posted about that!)

When the kids came home they were worn out, and so full of stories to tell of their day - it was lovely! Funnily enough it turns out that the grandparents had used their clubcard vouchers to go to Legoland. So yesterdays' fun, and great memories were partially thanks to Tesco, but mostly to do with having such a great family!