Ikea deals

For Ikea Family members only

£1 for breakfast every Saturday? Sounds like egg-cellent value. If you head to selected Ikea stores, you can get a cooked breakfast from £1 (normally up to £3.95) when you scan your Ikea Family card at the checkout – it's free to sign up.

This breakfast deal is available from 9.30am to 11am every Saturday until 20 December, and in Scotland the offer includes Sundays too.

The following meals are included:

• Small vegetarian cooked breakfast for £1 (normally £2.75)

• Small cooked breakfast for £1 (normally £2.95)

• Regular vegetarian cooked breakfast for £1.50 (normally £3.75)

• Regular cooked breakfast for £1.50 (normally £3.95)

You can redeem up to six £1 breakfasts under one Ikea Family card in one transaction, and this deal runs at most stores but does exclude Oxford Street, Harlow, Norwich, Chester, and Aberdeen.

Via the free Discounts for Teachers scheme

Teachers and school staff can get 5% off online at Ikea via the Discounts for Teachers app (free to sign up). Discounts for Teachers says the offer will work on any product.

To get the deal, log in to the Discounts for Teachers app, then visit this Ikea page within the app and select 'Get Deal'.

Earn points when you spend to redeem against future purchases & restaurant items

Those signed up to the Ikea Family loyalty scheme (it's free to join) have received benefits for several years including free tea and coffee, and discounts on selected products – and now, Ikea has revamped its scheme to also give points when you shop or do certain 'interactions', which you can then convert into money off in-store/online or at its restaurants. We've full info on the points scheme below, and our analysis on whether it's any good.

There are six ways you can earn points. You'll earn points for doing the following:

• 1 point – For every £5 spent (swipe your Ikea Family card at the checkout, or add it to your online account)

• 1 point – Logging in to your Ikea Family profile (via the website or app)

• 2 points – Creating and saving a wish list online

• 5 points – Creating an Ikea Family profile online

• 20 points – Registering for, and attending, a free Ikea Family workshop or event in stores

• 25 points – Booking and attending a planning appointment (excludes kitchen planning)

There's no limit to how many points you can earn when spending in-store or online, but for activities such as logging into to your account, the points will only be credited once per week per activity.For example, even if you log in to your account multiple times within a week, you'll still only earn one point. The same applies for creating wish lists, and attending Ikea workshops, events and planning appointments.

Points will be valid for 18 months. Ikea says collected points can take up to 48 hours to arrive in your account, and points are only valid for 18 months from the date of collection (so the date of the purchase or interaction). After that, the points will automatically expire, and you won't be able to use them to claim rewards. That brings us nicely to...

What are the rewards?

You can redeem your points in three different ways – either on purchases over £11, on selected food orders at Ikea's restaurant, or on delivery of large items. Here are what points get you:

Discounts on purchases

• 125 points – save £10 when you spend £11 or more

• 250 points – save £20 when you spend £21 or more

• 500 points – save £40 when you spend £41 or more

Ikea restaurant discounts

• 22 points – get a Daim cake for 10p

• 33 points – get a salmon meal for 50p 

• 45 points – get one meal of eight-piece meat, veg or plant balls for 50p 

• 68 points – get a nine-piece breakfast for 50p

• 94 points – get two meals of eight-piece meat, veg or plant balls for 50p 

Home delivery discounts

• 50 points – £5 off delivery

• 100 points – £10 off delivery

• 150 points – £15 off delivery

• 200 points – £20 off delivery

It only applies to large deliveries (such as beds, wardrobes or appliances) and it can't be used against express delivery.

How good is Ikea's new rewards scheme?

Sadly, we're not that impressed as it doesn't seem like a particularly generous scheme. For example, you'd have to spend £110 just to get a 10p Daim cake (normally about £2), and £625 to get £10 off an in-store or online spend.

If you shop at Ikea reguarly, or if you've got a big purchase planned, then owt's better than nowt and it could be worth it – though don't use it as an excuse to overspend. For many, rewards aren't likely to come that quickly, which could be an issue when points are only valid for 18 months.

You can stack these rewards with some other offers. Ikea told us the reward vouchers can be used alongside other offers and promotions such as Ikea Family prices, except where the other offer contains a coupon code or QR code. This is because it's not possible to apply two codes to a single purchase. Only one reward voucher can be redeemed at a time.

See more ways to save at Ikea with our hacks.

Weekdays only with an Ikea Family card

When you shop in store at Ikea (find your nearest), you can get a free cup of tea or filter coffee (normally £1.50) when you swipe an Ikea Family card at the in-store restaurant. Ikea Family is its free loyalty scheme, and you can sign up online or in store.

You can get the free hot drink Monday to Friday at all stores except Brighton, Hammersmith, Oxford Street, Aberdeen Order and Collection Point, Plan and Order Points. Ikea says that one hot drink can be redeemed per IKEA family card.

See our Ikea MoneySaving tips for more ways to save at the big blue and yellow store.