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

GingerBoy
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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.
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.
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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 nom0
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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.0 -
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 i buy bakin boy cupcakes that are out of date all the time, sometimes by a month and never had problems before.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!0 -
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!0 -
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.0 -
4 boxes of muffins for in my local in belfast, dated 20th jan so 16 individual muffins for £1. great for lunch boxes0
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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).0
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