How to slash your spending on Halloween sweets

Halloween is just days away and it’s time to stock up on sweets and chocolate for your kids and trick-or-treaters knocking on your door. But how can you keep costs down when seasonal treats are getting so expensive?

After all, new research from Updraft shows that sweet and chocolate prices have gone up by almost 40% in last five years.

A 640g pack of Haribo Trick or Treat mini bags, for example, would have cost about £2.17 in 2021.

But the same item now costs about £3.

Similarly, you would’ve paid about £1.44 for a 150g bag of M&S Percy Pig Petrifying Party sweets five years ago.

Yet today it costs around £2.

Of course, the amounts that supermarkets charge is completely out of your control.

But if you want to cut the cost of trick-or-treating this Halloween, there are steps you can take to make your money go a bit further.

Compare the price per 100g

Supermarkets list the price of sweets and chocolate per 100g/ml on shelf labels.

So instead of looking at the pack size, you can compare by weight or volume and make sure you’re getting more for your money.

Decide how much you want to buy

How many kids did you send out trick-or-treating on Halloween last year?

And how many neighbours knocked on your door that night asking for sweets?

If you can roughly work out what you got through last year, you can make sure you’re just buying the amount you need this time round.

Don’t buy on impulse

You might think picking up bits and pieces while you’re out and about makes life easier.
 
But it can cost you in the long run.

So just get Halloween sweets and chocolate as part of your big shop.

That helps you keep a lid on exactly how much you buy and what you’re willing to spend on them.

Buy own brand products

You don’t have to just buy expensive branded sweets and chocolates to enjoy Halloween.

Supermarket own brand products are just as good and can satisfy kids for a fraction of the cost.

You can find more tips on how to avoid a financial fright at Halloween here.