We love us some Reese's Peanut Butter Cups here. The regular size package, which comes with two peanut butter cups, is insufficient. Connor picked one out for us to share the other day, and I ended up letting Lex eat mine, because of course he wanted one as soon as he saw them.
So, we often buy the King Size package, which has four peanut butter cups in it. This is perfect for our family, because there are four of us. (And if Daddy happens to be at work, I get two, which is even more perfect! Oh, but, shhh! That can be our little secret.)
Yesterday, we went down the bulk candy aisle at Kroger, and not because we were shopping for bulk candy. Kroger is a smaller store, so they have combined aisles, and the bulk candy aisle is also the aisle where one would find baking goods. This never happens at Wal-Mart, which is so big that each food group gets an entire aisle. Well, except for the mac and cheese and Asian foods, which are mixed because they both have noodles, but are separate from the pasta aisle, which is clearly different. But I digress. The point is that we rarely find ourselves in the bulk candy aisle, but being at a different store, we ended up in one, and Connor found an eight pack of Reese's cups.
Eight individually wrapped little cups of peanut buttery goodness. And it was $1.69. Seemed good to me, so I didn't protest when he tossed it into the cart.
At the checkout, I noticed that the King Size pack of Reese's was selling for $1.39. $1.39 for four peanut butter cups. Which means that I got an extra four cups for only $.30. Thirty cents! And these ones were individually wrapped, so they weren't saving money on the packaging.
Which makes me wonder, what exactly is the mark-up on a peanut butter cup?
And more importantly, does anyone know that Reese guy so that we can kidnap him and get his secret recipe so that I can make them at home myself?
No, wait, that sounds like a lot of work. It's probably more convenient to just eat the ones that Connor tosses in the cart when no one is looking.
2 comments:
I have a phenomenal recipe for chocolate covered peanut balls (rolled with rice crispies)--these are SUPER yum! And, I think they actually beat peanut butter cups (btw, the Reece's peanutbutter easter eggs are even better than the cups in my book!) I will make the peanutbutter balls sometime and post---you will love these--and you can put the boys to work in rolling all the stinkiness into balls:D
Surely you didn't mean stinky balls? Right? RIGHT?
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