Major supermarket giving away free BBQ food to customers this summer worth £25 – here's how to get yours
GRILL THRILL Major supermarket giving away free BBQ food to customers this summer worth £25 – here's how to get yours
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A MAJOR supermarket chain is offering free grill food to customers who share their barbecue fail stories this summer.
Iceland is offering regular prize draws over the coming months - and all you need to do is outline your own barbecue fiascos.
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One lucky winner will be selected weekly throughout the competition period
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Brits can enter the prize draw by simply outlining how their past barbecues have gone wrong
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As summer approaches, many Brits will be hoping to dust off their grills to make the most of the warmer weekends.
But many will no doubt have plenty of barbecue disasters to laugh about later too.
Britain's ever temperamental summer weather can see plans quickly turned on their heads.
Not only this, but some 60 percent of Brits have admitted to burning food on their grill, according to an Atomik Research survey.
What's more, seven in 10 respondents said they would go on to eat the food, even if it was burnt.
Iceland is now offering grill enthusiasts a chance to cash in on their barbecue fail stories.
The supermarket chain has launched a BBQ SOS (Save Our Summer) Service to help Brits fully enjoy their summer grills.
It is offering a free barbecue food bundle to people who share their stories over the next few months.
Starting from June 7 and ending on August 17, Brits can enter the prize draw by simply outlining how their past barbecues have gone wrong.
All you need to do is tell Iceland your barbecue woes in up to 100 words.
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One lucky winner will be selected weekly throughout the competition period.
The lucky few selected will get a stack of barbecue grill food worth £23.50 in total.
Paul Dhaliwal, chief commercial officer at Iceland Foods, said: "We know how unpredictable the British summer can be, one minute it's cloudy, the next it's perfect BBQ weather.
"People want to seize the moment and get grilling without all the hassle.
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The supermarket chain has launched a BBQ SOS (Save Our Summer) Service
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"That's why we've launched our SOS BBQ Service, so no one has to miss a single sausage this summer."
The free food package for the lucky winners will include the following:
Iceland 4 Chicken & Vegetable Kebabs – 300g (£4.00)
Iceland 8 BBQ Beef Koftas – 320g (£4.00)
Iceland Extra Thin BBQ Chicken Sizzle Steaks – 450g (£4.00)
Iceland 4 100% Beef Quarter Pounders – 454g (£3.50)
Iceland Sticky BBQ Pork Belly Slices – 300g (£4.00)
Iceland Ready Cooked Salt and Pepper Chicken Skewers – 340g (£4.00)
A total of 11 bundles, which is one per week, will be given out over the promotion period.
Winners will be selected by a random computer process on the Monday of each week.
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