72 Fabulous Bakin' Boys Chocolate Cupcakes for £1 @£land

GingerBoy

In Poundland (at least in Rugby) there's three boxes of 6 Fabulous Bakin' Boys Chocolate Cupcakes for £1. The best before date's only 17th Jan, but I presume they'll be OK for a few days.

The boxes are taped together in threes. I went to buy four bundles of three boxes, and the till registered it as four items of "6pk chocolate cupcakes, 4/£1", and so took my four items as a multisave and only charged me £1 for all 12 boxes!

So 4x3x6 = 72 cupcakes for £1 :j

I presume the idea had been they would be 4 boxes for £1, but on the shelf individually rather than taped together in threes.

deadrobot

That's an amazing deal! How are you going to eat 72 cupcakes in a week tho?! lol it could be your new challenge! I'll help! Om nom nom

sb44

I have frozen the lemon and raspberry ones of these and they were fine.

Just depends how much room you have in the freezer though.

gitw

they will be more than ok. best by dates are a con and invented by the supermarkets to make us even more paranoid about our food. i buy bakin boy cupcakes that are out of date all the time, sometimes by a month and never had problems before. although i must admit i do try things before i offer them to friends or family.

use the sniff test - if it looks & smells Ok then it is probably perfectly fine to eat :0)

enjoy, they are lush!

Chocmonster7

My local branch (Darlington) didn't have the triple packs but they did have the 4 packs for a £1 offer which also included muffins.

Got 1 pack of cup cakes and 3 packs of chocolate orange muffins. The Muffins have a best before date of 8th Feb.

I bought the same thing in Morrisons last week for 70p and thought that was a bargain - thanks OP!

GingerBoy

I've just noticed that there's an offer on the cupcakes box for Great Days Out - collect the points from the codes in the box etc. It's done through Conks, which also ran the Kelloggs buy-three-boxes-of-cerials-get-a-box-free offer... The 12 cupcake boxes will give me 120 points, which will get me four free boxes of Kelloggs cerials :-)

So this should have been called "72 cupcakes & 4 packets of Kelloggs cerials for £1" :j

UPDATE: Scratch that, although it shows as 10 Coinks points, they're not "Kelloggs Coinks" points, so they can't be used against the free cerial packets.

icookalot4u

4 boxes of muffins for in my local in belfast, dated 20th jan so 16 individual muffins for £1. great for lunch boxes

callum9999

gitw wrote: »

they will be more than ok. best by dates are a con and invented by the supermarkets to make us even more paranoid about our food. i buy bakin boy cupcakes that are out of date all the time, sometimes by a month and never had problems before. although i must admit i do try things before i offer them to friends or family.

use the sniff test - if it looks & smells Ok then it is probably perfectly fine to eat :0)

enjoy, they are lush!

I doubt it as they must throw away millions of pounds because they've reached the best before date.

Manufacturers can be overly cautious though (which isn't necessarily a bad thing as generally, the fresher food is the nicer it is).