Blue Elephant Voucher Codes for August 2026

Blue Elephant's UK shop is focused on Thai food rather than a huge general grocery range. When I checked the current collections, I found curry pastes, ready-made sauces, Thai cooking kits, noodles, coconut milk and cream, dressings, spices, snacks, teas and gifts. The format matters when you are comparing value. A 70g Thai Green Curry Paste costs £2.80 and still needs additional ingredients, whereas a cooking kit bundles more of the meal together. That makes the cheapest-looking packet price only part of the calculation.

What do shoppers say about Blue Elephant food?

I found relatively little substantial UK discussion about the Blue Elephant online shop itself, so there is not enough evidence to manufacture a broad customer consensus. Product discussions are more useful. In one Reddit discussion about Thai curry pastes, Blue Elephant was compared with cheaper alternatives such as Lobo, while other conversations also mention Mae Ploy, Aroy-D and Maesri. Taste is obviously subjective, but the recurring consumer decision is useful: Blue Elephant sits alongside several cheaper Thai brands, so shoppers need to decide whether they value the particular product and convenience enough to pay the difference.

Pros: a specialist Thai range, several ways to buy the same type of dish and regular direct promotions. Things to check: buying direct is not automatically cheapest, some lines can be out of stock, and food returns become more restrictive once a parcel has been opened.

The best ways I found to spend less at Blue Elephant

• Check the current Blue Elephant voucher code first. A broad percentage discount can work well on a mixed order of pastes, sauces and cupboard ingredients, provided it beats any promotion already attached to the products.
• Compare a code with the cooking-kit deal. Blue Elephant is currently advertising buy any cooking kit, get one free. If dinner for two means buying two qualifying kits anyway, that can be more useful than automatically applying a percentage discount.
• Treat the £30 free-delivery threshold as a calculation, not a target. Blue Elephant advertises free UK delivery on orders over £30. Spending more on food you did not intend to buy simply to cross that line can leave you worse off.
• New customers should compare the mailing-list offer. Blue Elephant currently advertises 10% off a first order for mailing-list subscribers. The merchant-supplied SPICE24 offer is currently stronger on percentage alone, so signing up only for the 10% saving would not be my first choice while the broader code remains available.
• Check the same Blue Elephant product elsewhere. Supermarkets can stock exactly the same 70g curry pastes. That gives you a proper like-for-like comparison rather than forcing you to compare different brands or pack sizes.
• Choose paste, sauce or kit according to what you still need to buy. A £2.80 paste looks cheap, but coconut cream, vegetables, meat or tofu and other ingredients may still be needed. A kit costs more upfront but bundles more together.
• Look at availability before planning a meal around an offer. Blue Elephant's curry-paste range showed a number of unavailable products when I checked. A strong category promotion is not useful if the flavour you want cannot be ordered.

Blue Elephant discounts for new customers, students, NHS staff and other shoppers

New customers: Blue Elephant advertises 10% off a first order for mailing-list subscribers. The current Blue Elephant discount code SPICE24 has been supplied to me as 24% off plus free delivery on all purchases, including first orders, so its stated terms are currently stronger.

Existing customers: SPICE24 is not restricted to new shoppers, making it more useful than the retailer's first-order email offer if you have bought from Blue Elephant before.

Students, NHS staff and OAPs: I could not find separate permanent schemes for these groups. Blue Elephant has, however, confirmed that the current Blue Elephant promo code is open to them because it is available to all customers.

Blue Light: I found no dedicated Blue Light Card discount. Blue Light membership is not needed to use the general merchant-supplied offer.

Free delivery: the retailer normally promotes free UK delivery when the order is over £30. SPICE24 has been supplied with free delivery on all purchases, which is particularly relevant if you only want a few £2.80 curry pastes or one cooking kit. I could not verify a published standard delivery charge below £30, so I would not put a figure on it.

How to use a Blue Elephant voucher code

1. Add the curry pastes, sauces, kits or other products you actually want to the basket.
2. Check whether a product promotion has already changed the price.
3. Continue to the basket or checkout and find the discount-code field.
4. Enter your Blue Elephant discount code and apply it.
5. Check that the expected reduction has appeared before continuing.
6. Look at delivery as well as the product subtotal before paying.

For SPICE24, that means checking that the 24% reduction has been applied and that the stated free-delivery benefit is reflected in the order. If another promotion leaves you paying less, use that instead.

Why might a Blue Elephant voucher code not work?

Blue Elephant runs product promotions as well as general codes, so the first thing I would look at is what is already happening to the basket. A cooking-kit offer may depend on having the correct quantity of qualifying kits, while the mailing-list discount is specifically aimed at a first order. Removing a qualifying product can therefore change the promotion.

Stock is another Blue Elephant-specific issue. Several curry-paste and cooking-kit lines were unavailable during my research, so an offer may be valid even though the product you wanted is no longer orderable. I could not verify a public rule saying Blue Elephant voucher codes always combine with sale prices or multi-buy promotions either. If a code does not apply, compare the product promotion already showing, the normal delivery threshold and the price of the same product at another stockist rather than repeatedly trying a discount that does not fit the order.

Typical basket savings with a Blue Elephant voucher code

For a straightforward comparison, I used four 70g curry pastes that Blue Elephant currently lists at £2.80 each: Thai Red, Green, Yellow and Massaman. Buying all four direct comes to £11.20. With SPICE24, I calculate a 24% saving of £2.69, reducing the product cost to about £8.51, with free delivery under the offer terms supplied to us.

That comparison becomes more useful when another retailer is added. When I checked, Ocado was selling the same four 70g Blue Elephant pastes for £2.25 each until 11 August 2026. Four cost £9.00. So on those exact products, the current Blue Elephant voucher code makes buying direct about 49p cheaper before considering Ocado's own order and delivery requirements.

What we check before listing Blue Elephant voucher codes

Blue Elephant needs more than a quick check that a code can be entered. Our team needs to establish whether the offer is for a first order or all customers, whether it works across curry pastes, sauces and cooking kits, and whether another promotion is already affecting the products. Delivery matters here too because the retailer normally uses an over-£30 free-delivery threshold.

SPICE24 was supplied directly by Blue Elephant to My Favourite Voucher Codes, including its customer eligibility and free-delivery terms. Even with a merchant-supplied code, the useful question for us is still what happens to the amount the shopper pays. We also look for product restrictions, minimum-spend conditions, sale compatibility and expiry where those terms exist. You can read more about our voucher code testing process.

Is Blue Elephant direct actually the cheapest place to buy Blue Elephant?

This is the comparison I think is easiest to overlook. Blue Elephant sells its own products direct, but supermarkets can sell exactly the same packs. When I checked, Blue Elephant's 70g Thai Green Curry Paste was £2.80. Ocado's temporary promotion put the identical 70g pack at £2.25.

Without a stronger direct discount, Ocado wins that shelf-price comparison. Apply 24% to Blue Elephant's £2.80 price, however, and the paste comes down to about £2.13. That is around 12p below Ocado's temporary offer price. The useful lesson is not that one retailer will always be cheapest; it is that a Blue Elephant discount code can change the answer. Compare the same pack size, the current promotion and any delivery cost before deciding where to order.

Paste, ready-made sauce or cooking kit: which is better value?

A percentage discount does not settle this on its own. Blue Elephant's curry pastes are concentrated ingredients, while ready-made sauces and cooking kits solve more of the meal for you. For example, the retailer says its Phad Thai Cooking Kit contains noodles, sauce and peanuts or cashews and serves two, although you still need to add vegetables, chicken or prawns. By contrast, the Southern Spicy Curry Paste is listed as serving four but needs the other curry ingredients separately.

If you already have coconut products, vegetables and seasonings at home, paste may stretch further. If not, a kit promotion could make more sense. That is a better comparison than simply choosing whichever packet has the lowest price.

Why I would not over-order just to get free delivery

There is another reason not to fill the cupboard just to cross £30. Blue Elephant's returns policy says food cannot be accepted as a return unless the parcel is completely unopened. It also says unopened items can be returned within the 14-day cancellation period, with separate provisions for damaged, defective or faulty goods. That makes buying unwanted food to reach a delivery threshold a particularly poor saving tactic. Buy what you are likely to use and compare the resulting delivery cost with the saving instead.

How shopping through My Favourite Voucher Codes can support charity

My Favourite Voucher Codes donates 20% of its monthly profits to charity, with users helping decide where the money goes through our public charity poll. Using one of our Blue Elephant voucher codes does not add anything to the price of your order. You can read more about how My Favourite Voucher Codes works, see the charities we support and take part in our monthly charity polls.

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