Cheapest places to buy Easter eggs including Cadbury and Lindt this week revealed
EASTER will soon be upon us, with many shoppers looking to stock up on chocolate eggs for their families.
Whether you’re on the hunt for Cadbury, Nestle or Lindt eggs, we have rounded up the best deals to ensure you are not spending more than you need to.
In the run up to Easter, it is likely that supermarkets will be begin ramping up offers on eggs to give customers the chance to save.
Here’s where to grab the cheapest Easter eggs this week.
Yorkie Milk Chocolate Easter Egg 196G
This yummy treat is available for £2.65 this week at Tesco, but if you want to get your hands on one you will need to have a Clubcard.
That’s because non Clubcard holders will have to fork out £4 for the Nestle egg.
It’s free to sign up for a Clubcard and you can do so by visting, www.tesco.com/account/register/en-GB/.
The price is £1.35 cheaper that what Morrisons and Iceland are charging for the egg, both at £4.
Lindt Milk Chocolate Egg With Lindt Gold Bunny 195G –
Nothing screams Easter like Lindt chocolate.
This 195g chocolate egg which comes with an the iconic Lindt chocolate bunny costs £7.98 at Asda.
This is around £2 cheaper than Waitrose, which is charging £10 for the delight.
Meanwhile the exact same egg costs £12 at Sainbury’s.
Cadbury Mini Eggs Easter Egg 232g
This 232g egg comes with two mini packets of Mini Eggs, alongside a hollow Cadbury egg.
Tesco appears to be the cheapest place to pick up this treat, charging £4.
This is compared to Asda who is asking for £4.98 for the chocolate.
Sainsbury’s is charging £5 if you have a Nectar Card and £6 for non loyalty card holders.
Rowntree’s Randoms Incredible Egg – 380g
This a milk chocolate egg filled with pieces of jelly and marshmallows, and it comes with a bag of Random sweets.
Asda is charging £7.98 for the 380g, making it the cheapest on the market.
Up next is online grocery Ocado, which is charging £10 for the egg, and Morrisons, which is charging £12.
How to shop around for the best bargain
When hunting for a deal, it is important to shop around to make sure you are not being overcharged.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
For example, Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
Price Spy also logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and the supermarkets.
Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.