‘What a bargain’ rave shoppers as major supermarket slashes large Easter eggs to just £1.99
SHOPPERS are raving about an Easter “bargain” for one of the country’s favourite chocolates.
The Celebrations large Easter egg is selling at Aldi for only £1.99, reports one chocolate lover.
The 220g milk chocolate egg has eight miniature Celebrations chocolates inside it for a second sweet snack after you’ve eaten the egg.
Shoppers were alerted to the deal after a post was made to the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group.
She said in the post: “Large Celebration Easter Egg £1.99 in Aldi’s. Chaul End lane branch , had loads!”
Commenters said the poster had found a “bargain.”
One said: “Most places have offers on now . It’s also Sainsbury Tesco and Morrisons and 4 for £10 in Asda.”
Another wrote: “4 for £8.00 Bargain.”
While a third poster revealed where they had seen a similar price: “£2 each Tesco.”
The chocolate has been reduced by Aldi from £2.99, but the Celebrations egg is also available at other supermarkets.
At Asda the Celebrations egg is selling for £3 online – the same price as Tesco.
Parents face shelling out up to 50 per cent more for Easter eggs compared with last year.
The Sun on Sunday found prices soaring, while the choc treats kids will unwrap on March 31 are sometimes smaller.
A Ferrero Rocher milk chocolate egg is up to £15 from £10, while an Asda dark chocolate one with vanilla truffles is £6.50, from £5.
A Cadbury Dairy Milk giant Buttons egg at Sainsbury’s is £1.50 instead of £1.25 – and not quite as big.
Sainsbury’s has reduced the price of some of its large Easter eggs to just £2 for all Nectar card holders in the run-up to the holiday.
The range includes different branded eggs such as Cadbury and Galaxy and most of the deals save you up to 37%.
Which chocolate is most common in a Celebrations tub?
Charlie Murphy, 28, from North Yorkshire, splashed the cash on eight tubs and counted which chocolate was the most common.
He shared his findings on X, formerly Twitter, and TikTok, where he is known as @charliemurphy50.
It’s proved to be a big hit, with the footage on TikTok alone notching up more than 179,000 views in just a couple of days.
Charlie, who is a full-time carer for his disabled dad, said that he loves Maltesers, Galaxy and Dairy Milk, but he doesn’t like being left with the Crème Egg, Snickers and Bounty offerings.
In the online footage, he can be seen emptying all the contents from the tub and then going through them.
From the eight tubs that he bought, Charlie revealed that Galaxy and Caramel were the least common, with 46 of each, making an average of six per tub.
The most common chocolate though were Snickers, with Charlie finding at total of 89 in the eight tubs, almost twice the amount of Galaxy chocolates.
