Do the £10 supermarket meal deals add up? Tesco is currently offering a Finest dinner for two for a tenner, including a side dish, main course, dessert and wine. The savings look impressive at first glance - a bottle of wine priced at £6.99, dessert priced at £3, main course at £5.50 and a £2.50 side dish mean that you are getting food priced at £17.99 for £10. Yet, despite the popularity of the £10 eat-in deal, I am beginning to fall out of love with the concept. For a start, the choice of side dishes is a little bizarre - you can have either mash or vegetables with your meal but not both. I inevitably end up making a vegetable dish to go with such meals, which rather ruins the "no work" idea. I also find it hard to pay £2.50 for a dish of vegetables to heat up in the oven. Without the Finest name, Mediterranean roasting vegetables cost £1.50 at Tesco, while a bag of frozen chargrilled Finest peppers is yours for £1.75, and would do you many meals, without any more trouble than the side dishes from the meal deal. The deals do not run every weekend, making them hard to compare and rely on. Marks & Spencer, for example, is not running its £10 deal this weekend. However, previous deals have included a whole rotisserie chicken together with wine and a dessert. If you like supermarket ready meals, the "dine in for £10" deals are a cheap way of getting them, but branding them as an alternative to going to a restaurant is a triumph of marketing speak over reality. In which restaurants do you spend your time heating up lots of things for different times in little plastic trays? And then there's always the washing up to think about. This week's deals Sainsbury's is offering two packs of six kiwi fruit for £2, usually £1.25 for six Sainsbury's is offering half-price Vina Maipo Reserva Merlot for £4.99, down from £9.99 Sainsbury's is selling 170g of Brussels pâté, buy one get one free, for £1.40 Buy two Goodfella's deep pan baked loaded cheese pizza, 417g, for £4.50 (usually £2.80 each) from Sainsbury's Aldi's offers this week include wild boar or venison salami at £1.99 for 220g Aldi is selling British Angus fillet steak at £4.99 for 170g Lidl has special half-price bank holiday offers this weekend, including a litre of orange juice for 64p and fresh vine tomatoes half-price at 99p a kilo Lidl is offering "Taste of Mexico" products until Thursday, including cinnamon liqueur with tequila for £7.99 and Mexican-style cheddar cheese for £1.29 for 200g