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Ordering a Dominoes for the family requires taking out a mortgage. The good news is you can get your greasy, cheesey, carby fix without blowing your budget.
We’ve been researching and shopping to try and find a pizza night for four that costs less than £10. We managed to shop for a BBQ for four on a £10 budget, so why not pizza? As you can see from the shopping list below, we’ve set ourselves a real challenge: we’ve got three pizzas and two sides. Can we get all that for less than a tenner? Let’s find out.
Shopping list
- 1 large cheese pizza
- 1 large pepperoni pizza
- 1 large BBQ chicken pizza
- Chicken goujons
- Potato wedges
Quick look
| Best value | Most expensive |
| Aldi – £7.63 | Waitrose – £14.50 |
Cheapest supermarket for pizza night-in: Aldi
- Everyday Essentials Cheese & Tomato pizza – £1.10
- Everyday Essentials Pepperoni pizza – £1.10
- Carlos Takeaway BBQ Chicken & Bacon pizza – £2.39
- Chicken Goujons, 320g – £1.65
- Four Seasons Lightly Spiced Wedges – £1.39
Surprisingly, Aldi doesn’t stock a BBQ chicken pizza, so we’ve found the closest thing: BBQ chicken and bacon. Unsurprisingly, Aldi is the cheapest supermarket for our pizza night-in, costing just £7.63, and leaving £2.37 for a Garlic & Herb dip (£0.85) and a box of Ice Blitz Lollies (£1.45). You might even be able to scrounge a box of mozzarella sticks.
If you’ve got a family of chicken lovers, you could swap the 320g goujons above for a 600g bag of chicken strips for £3.79. Doing this, your basket total will be £9.77.
2. Iceland
- Thin Crust Cheese & Tomato pizza – £1
- Thin Crust Pepperoni – £1
- Ultimate Crust BBQ Chicken & Bacon pizza – £2.60
- Chicken Goujons, 224g – £1
- Ridiculously Crispy Seasoned Wedges – £2.75
When it comes to frozen food, it’s Iceland’s time to shine. The supermarket didn’t fare well with our BBQ for four or our chicken roast dinner shop, but here, with a shopping list made up of frozen foods, Iceland only just lost out to Aldi. For our three pizzas and two sides, our Iceland basket came to £8.35, leaving us enough to get a Garlic & Herb dip (£1) or a four pack of pink ring doughnuts (£1.50).
3. Morrisons
- Thin Crust Cheese Pizza – £1.10
- Stonebaked Pepperoni pizza – £1.75
- Stonebaked BBQ Chicken pizza – £1.75
- Breaded Chicken Goujons, 450g – £2.35
- Seasoned Potato Wedges – £1.65
Morrisons’ pizzas fall into the middle of the price range. Not quite as cheap as Aldi and the ‘Aldi Price Match’ supermarkets, but nowhere near as expensive as Ocado or Waitrose. But, despite the mid-range pizza prices, our £8.60 pizza night wins Morrisons 3rd place, behind Aldi and Iceland. With our leftover money, we treated ourselves to some strawberry doughnuts.
4. Asda
- Just Essentials Cheese & Tomato pizza – £1.10
- Just Essentials Pepperoni pizza – £1.10
- BBQ Chicken Stonebaked pizza – £1.34
- Crispy Chicken Breast Strips, 400g – £3.98
- Seasoned Potato Wedges – £1.54
Our Asda pizza night cost us £9.06, placing it firmly in 4th place and pushing Tesco down to 5th.
5. Tesco
- Hearty Food Co Thin & Crispy Cheese pizza – £1.10
- Hearty Food Co Thin & Crispy Pepperoni pizza – £1.10
- Tesco Takeaway BBQ Chicken pizza – £2.95
- Tesco Breaded Chicken Goujons, 270g – £3.00
- Spicy Wedges – £1.65
Tesco is down at number six on our list when it came to buying our pizza and sides. The pizzas at Tesco totalled £5.15, and with the sides added on, our overall basket cost us £9.80.
A key difference between Tesco and Sainsbury’s: you’re getting a lot less chicken at Tesco. Goujons, strips, tenders, whatever you want to call them, are far pricier at Tesco, so to keep to our £10 budget, we ended up having to buy a 270g box of chicken, compared to the 400g worth we bought at Sainsbury’s.
6. Sainsbury’s
- Sainsbury’s Thin & Crispy Cheese pizza – £1.07
- Sainsbury’s Thin & Crispy Pepperoni pizza – £1.07
- Sainsbury’s Deep Pan BBQ Chicken pizza – £1.75
- Sainsbury’s Breaded Chicken Breast Strips, 400g – £4.00
- Lightly Spiced Wedges – £2
We’ve got cheese, pepperoni, and a BBQ chicken pizza for £3.89. We’ve also got spiced wedges and chicken strips for £6.00. Our pizza night-in would cost us a total of £9.89 if we were to go to Sainsbury’s.
7. Ocado
- M&S Mozzarella & Tomato Stonebaked pizza – £2.90
- M&S Pepperoni Stonebaked pizza – £2.90
- Goodfella’s Stonebaked Thin BBQ Chicken pizza – £3
- SFC Chicken Mini Fillets, 250g – £2.50
- McCain Lightly Spiced Wedges – £2
If you’ve only got £10 in your pocket, then Ocado is not the place for you. At £13.30, Ocado is the 2nd most expensive supermarket for our pizza feast.
8. Waitrose
- Essential Thin & Crispy Cheese & Tomato pizza – £2.75
- Essential Thin & Crispy Pepperoni pizza – £2.75
- Goodfella’s Stonebaked Thin Barbeque Chicken pizza – £3.15
- Essential Frozen Chicken Goujons, 625g – £3.90
- Waitrose Frozen Seasoned Potato Wedges – £1.95
Like Ocado, Waitrose blows our £10 budget and takes the crown as the most expensive supermarket for our pizza night. At £14.50, Waitrose isn’t our winner, but unlike the other supermarkets, we do get an extra 200g of chicken. However, the cheese and pepperoni pizzas are an average of 100g smaller than their counterparts at the other supermarkets on this list, making them more expensive per gram.
Co-op
Due to the recent cyber attack, we struggled to find everything on our list as stock at Co-op is still iffy. We’ll come back and update this list once the cyber issue is resolved.
What should I keep in mind when shopping for a pizza night-in?
While researching and shopping around for this comparison, we noticed a few common trends: pizza prices were all very similar due to supermarkets employing an ‘Aldi Price Match’ strategy. Potato wedges were also close in price, even at the most expensive supermarkets, Waitrose and Ocado.
When picking a supermarket for your pizza feast, it’s the chicken where the prices and package weights vary the most. If having chicken strips on the side is your family’s favourite part of pizza night, then choose a supermarket that offers 400-700g boxes, like Aldi, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s, or Asda.
You should also remember to take advantage of supermarket loyalty card prices, as well as any special offers running – you can buy all of the things for pizza night in advance and store them in the freezer, ready for when the cravings for dough and cheese take over.
If you’ve got a spare evening and nothing to keep the kids entertained with, try doing a homemade pizza night instead. It’s just as- of not more- affordable as buying the pizzas in. And, you also get to spend some quality time with your family doing something fun.
