Cheapest place to buy Easter essentials including eggs and roast dinners
THE cheapest place to buy your Easter essentials has been revealed.
With Easter Sunday just a few days away, many households will be keen to know which supermarket to head to when they do their shopping.
The Sun compared the prices of seven popular Easter treats including chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and Lindt bunnies to find out where they are the cheapest.
Families looking to fill their trollies with Easter favourites should visit Asda this year.
The supermarket was the cheapest place to buy several of our essentials, beating rivals Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Aldi.
The budget supermarket came out on top for Cadbury Flake Large Chocolate Easter Eggs, which will set you back £4.49.
But to get the deal you need to buy two eggs.
In comparison, the same egg would cost you £5 for one at Tesco or £6 at Morrisons and Ocado.
Asda also beat rivals when it came to the 100g Lindt chocolate bunny, which will set you back £3.48.
The same chocolate treat would cost you £3.50 at Iceland, Ocado and Waitrose.
Asda was also the second cheapest for three items on our shopping list.
When it came to the Dairy Milk Caramel Button Egg it was narrowly beaten by Tesco, which charges £1.45 with a Clubcard.
In comparison, the same chocolate was 3p more expensive at Asda, costing £1.48.
But it was cheaper than Poundland and Sainsbury’s, which both charge £1.50.
Meanwhile, the Cadbury Twirl Large Chocolate Easter Egg can be picked up at Aldi for £3.45 but costs £3.48 at Asda.
This made it 2p cheaper than at Ocado and 52p cheaper than Morrisons.
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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.
A Creme Egg at Asda costs 67p but it is only 59p at Savers.
But the popular treat would set you back 75p at Poundland and Waitrose.
Aldi came out on top in three categories, including for Mini Eggs, Hot Cross Buns and the Cadbury Twirl Large Chocolate Easter Egg.
A bag of Mini Eggs costs £1.49 at the budget supermarket, beating Poundland by 1p and Asda by 15p.
*Prices checked using Trolley.co.uk and were correct as of 16/04/2025
For comparison, Ocado and Tesco charge £1.65, but at Tesco you need a Clubcard – without, it’s £1.85.
Meanwhile, its hot cross buns will set you back £1.05 – making them the same price as Tesco, Aldi and Sainsbury’s.
Easter lunch
Families who are set to do their big Easter shop should head to Lidl this weekend.
The supermarket came out on top, narrowly beating rivals Asda and Morrisons (with a More Card).
A trolley of Easter necessities cost £15.70 at the budget supermarket.
* Prices correct as of 16/04/2025
Shoppers can get their hands on 2kg of white potatoes, 1kg of carrots, 500g of parsnips and a whole swede for just 8p each.
A lamb joint will set you back just £6.15 a kilogram, or £15.38 for a 2.5kg joint.
Asda was the second-cheapest supermarket, with the same basket of the same essentials costing £15.75.
The supermarket is also selling 1kg of carrots, a whole swede, 2kg of potatoes and 500g of parsnips for just 8p.
Meanwhile, a lamb joint costs £6.17 per kilogram at the supermarket.
A 2.5kg joint would cost you £15.43 – 5p more than at Lidl.
Next up was Morrisons, which is selling a selection of Easter vegetables for pennies.
Shoppers can get their hands on 1kg of carrots, a whole swede and a 500g bag of parsnips for 8p each.
A 2kg bag of white potatoes will set you back £1.10 – £1.02 more than at Lidl and Asda.
Meanwhile, a lamb joint will set you back £6.50 a kilogram, or £16.25 for a 2.5kg joint.
This is 88p more expensive than Lidl and 82p more than Asda.
But not all Morrisons shoppers will be able to get their hands on the deal as it is only available to More Card customers.
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Sign up to loyalty schemes of the brands that you regularly shop with.
Big names regularly offer discounts or special lower prices for members, among other perks.
Sales are when you can pick up a real steal.
Retailers usually have periodic promotions that tie into payday at the end of the month or Bank Holiday weekends, so keep a lookout and shop when these deals are on.
Sign up to mailing lists and you’ll also be first to know of special offers. It can be worth following retailers on social media too.
When buying online, always do a search for money off codes or vouchers that you can use vouchercodes.co.uk and myvouchercodes.co.uk are just two sites that round up promotions by retailer.
Scanner apps are useful to have on your phone. Trolley.co.uk app has a scanner that you can use to compare prices on branded items when out shopping.
Bargain hunters can also use B&M’s scanner in the app to find discounts in-store before staff have marked them out.
And always check if you can get cashback before paying which in effect means you’ll get some of your money back or a discount on the item.
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