Party Economy

Snacks & Treats Prices

Chips, chocolate, sweets, biltong, popcorn and party packs — the real 2026 cost of the snack table, reverse-engineered back to 2022.

123
Products tracked
R693.88
Representative basket, 2026
R594.53
Same basket in 2022
+16.7%
4-year increase (8-factor model)

Cost of a full snacks & treats basket, 2022–2026

The 2026 figure is built from verified live retail prices; earlier years are reverse-engineered with the eight-factor weighted backcast model (inflation, excise, packaging, fuel, electricity, FX, producer list-price and retail margin — weighted differently per category). Every individual product is charted below.

Every product, every retailer

Each chart is one product; each line is a retailer’s verified 2026 price, traced back to 2022 with the Snacks & Treats backcast model. Prices are per single unit — per can, bottle, 750ml, pack or kg exactly as named in the product title. Scroll for more, or search by product.

2026 — verified live retail price 2022–2025 — eight-factor backcast model % change 2022→2026

Beef biltong sliced — 100g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 4 retailers

Beef biltong sliced — 250g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 5 retailers

Beef biltong sticks — 6 pack

Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailers

Beef jerky original — 50g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 1 retailer

Droëwors — 100g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 2 retailers

Droëwors — 250g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailers

Kudu biltong — 100g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 2 retailers

Ostrich biltong — 100g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailers

Strips & Snapsticks — 30g

Biltong & Dried Meat · 1 retailer

Bakers Marie biscuits — 200g

Biscuits & Cookies · 5 retailers

Bakers Romany Creams — 200g

Biscuits & Cookies · 5 retailers

Bakers Tennis biscuits — 200g

Biscuits & Cookies · 4 retailers

Loading products…

Full product index (123 items tracked)

Biltong & Dried Meat

  • Beef biltong sliced — 100g
  • Beef biltong sliced — 250g
  • Beef biltong sticks — 6 pack
  • Beef jerky original — 50g
  • Droëwors — 100g
  • Droëwors — 250g
  • Kudu biltong — 100g
  • Ostrich biltong — 100g
  • Strips & Snapsticks — 30g

Biscuits & Cookies

  • Bakers Marie biscuits — 200g
  • Bakers Romany Creams — 200g
  • Bakers Tennis biscuits — 200g
  • Choc Chip cookies — 200g
  • Digestive biscuits — 400g
  • Oreo original — 137g
  • Personalised party cookies — 12 pack
  • Shortbread fingers — 200g
  • TUC crackers — 100g

Candy & Sweets

  • All Sorts — 150g
  • Candy floss sugar — 500g
  • Chappies — 20 pack
  • Fizzers — 50 pack
  • Gummy bears — 200g
  • Jelly Babies — 150g
  • Jelly Tots — 150g
  • Lollipops assorted — 10 pack
  • Marshmallows — 200g
  • Sour strips — 150g
  • Toffees assorted — 250g
  • Wine Gums — 150g

Chips & Crisps

  • Doritos Flamin' Hot — 120g
  • Doritos Nacho Cheese — 120g
  • Doritos Sweet Chilli — 120g
  • House brand chips — 125g
  • Lay's Classic — 120g
  • Lay's Salt & Vinegar — 120g
  • Lay's Waves — 108g
  • Pringles Original — 110g
  • Pringles Sour Cream — 110g
  • Red Rock Deli Sea Salt — 165g
  • Simba Chips Original — 125g
  • Simba Ghost Pops — 125g
  • Simba Mexican Chilli — 125g
  • Simba Salt & Vinegar — 125g
  • Thins Original — 150g
  • Willards Cheese Curls — 125g

Chocolate

  • Astros — 40g
  • Cadbury Dairy Milk — 150g
  • Cadbury Dairy Milk — 80g
  • Cadbury PS — 48g
  • Cadbury Top Deck — 150g
  • Ferrero Rocher — 16 pack
  • House brand chocolate slab — 150g
  • Lindor balls — 100g
  • Lindt Excellence 70% — 100g
  • M&M's Peanut — 45g
  • Nestlé Bar One — 55g
  • Nestlé KitKat 4 Finger — 41.5g
  • Nestlé Tex — 55g
  • Peppermint Crisp slab — 150g
  • Smarties tube — 38g
  • Tex Bar — 55g

Dips & Spreads

  • Cheese dip — 250g
  • Cream cheese dip — 200g
  • Guacamole dip — 200g
  • Hummus plain — 200g
  • Nutella — 350g
  • Peanut butter smooth — 400g
  • Salsa dip — 300g

Dried Fruit

  • Dried apricots — 250g
  • Dried banana chips — 200g
  • Fruit rolls — 5 pack
  • Raisins — 500g
  • Sultanas — 500g
  • Veggie straws — 120g

Extruded Snacks

  • Cheetos Puffs — 120g
  • Cheezels — 150g
  • Cheezels — 36g
  • Frimax Cheese Puffs — 150g
  • Fritos Original — 120g
  • Nik Naks — 135g
  • Nik Naks — 55g

Health & Energy

  • Dried cranberries — 150g
  • Dried fruit mix — 250g
  • Dried mango — 100g
  • Energy bar — Cereal — each
  • Future Life bar — each
  • Granola bar — 6 pack

Nuts & Trail Mix

  • Almonds roasted — 200g
  • Cashew nuts roasted — 200g
  • Cashew nuts roasted — 500g
  • Macadamia nuts — 150g
  • Mixed nuts deluxe — 200g
  • Pumpkin seeds — 150g
  • Salted peanuts — 200g
  • Salted peanuts — 500g
  • Sunflower seeds — 200g
  • Trail mix — 250g

Party Packs

  • Lucky packet — each
  • Party pack sweets (boys) — each
  • Party pack sweets (girls) — each
  • Party pack toys — each
  • Piñata filler mix — 500g
  • Snack platter (pre-made) — serves 10
  • Sweet cones — each

Popcorn

  • Carmien microwave popcorn — 85g
  • Microwave popcorn butter — 3 pack
  • Popcorn kernels — 1kg
  • Popcorn kernels — 500g
  • Ready-to-eat sweet popcorn — 150g
  • Willards Big Corn Bites — 100g

Pretzels & Crackers

  • Carr's water biscuits — 125g
  • Cream crackers — 200g
  • Finn Crisp rye crispbread — 200g
  • Provita original — 250g
  • Rice cakes plain — 120g
  • Ritz crackers — 200g
  • Salted pretzels — 200g

Savoury Baked

  • Mini quiches — 6 pack
  • Mini sausage rolls — 12 pack
  • Pizza rolls frozen — 8 pack
  • Samoosas frozen — 12 pack
  • Spring rolls frozen — 12 pack

Frequently asked questions

Where do the 2026 prices come from?

Every 2026 price is scraped live from South African retailer and hire-house websites — Checkers, Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Woolworths, TOPS, and dedicated party or costume suppliers. Multipack listings are normalised to a per-unit price matching the product title.

How are 2022–2025 prices calculated?

Earlier years are reverse-engineered from the verified 2026 anchor using an eight-factor weighted model: headline inflation, excise (alcohol), packaging PPI, fuel/logistics, electricity, USD/ZAR pass-through, producer list-price increases, and retail margin change — with different weights per category.

Methodology & sources

1. Verified 2026 anchor (pink cells). Every 2026 price is scraped live from South African retailers and hire houses (Checkers, Pick n Pay, Shoprite, Woolworths, TOPS, dedicated party / costume suppliers). Multipack listings are normalised to a per-unit price matching the product title (e.g. a 24-case R299.99 → R12.50 per 330ml can). Outliers beyond 5× the subcategory median are discarded.
2. Master backcast formula (2022–2025). Earlier years are reverse-engineered from the verified 2026 anchor using a weighted eight-factor cost model — not a single CPI divisor:

Index[2026] = 100

Δ[y] = winflation·rinflation[y] + wexcise·rexcise[y] + wpackaging·rpackaging[y] + wfuel·rfuel[y] + welectricity·relectricity[y] + wfx·rfx[y] + wproducer·rproducer[y] + wretail·rretail[y]

Index[y] = Index[y+1] ÷ (1 + Δ[y+1])  for y = 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

price[y] = price2026 × Index[y] ÷ 100

Where w = category weight (sums to 100%) and r[y] = published YoY rate for that driver in year y.

3. The eight cost drivers (annual YoY rates, decimal sources):
DriverSource series2023202420252026e
Headline / category inflationStats SA CPI (P0141)6.0%4.4%3.2%3.5%
Excise duty increaseSARS / National Treasury excise gazettes4.9%4.9%5.2%5.5%
Packaging inflationStats SA PPI — paper, plastic, glass & metal containers8.5%6.2%4.8%4.5%
Fuel / logistics inflationDMRE / DMPR petrol & diesel gazettes (annual avg)-3.5%-4.5%-2.9%3.3%
Electricity inflationNERSA / Eskom approved tariff increases12.7%11.8%9.9%8.5%
Exchange-rate pass-throughSARB USD/ZAR annual average (% change)12.5%-0.8%-1.1%1.7%
Producer / brewery list-price increaseSAB, Distell, Heineken SA supplier notices & industry benchmarks5.5%4.8%4.2%4.0%
Retail margin changeRetailer gross-margin surveys (NAMC, Stats SA trade margins)2.5%1.8%1.5%1.2%
4. Category model — Snacks & Treats. Chips, chocolate, sweets and biltong — higher packaging and retail-margin sensitivity; cocoa and palm-oil FX on confectionery. Weights applied on this page:
DriverWeight
Headline / category inflation26%
Packaging inflation18%
Fuel / logistics inflation13%
Electricity inflation9%
Exchange-rate pass-through14%
Producer / brewery list-price increase9%
Retail margin change11%
5. Resulting composite & index for Snacks & Treats.
YearWeighted Δ (YoY)Backcast index (2026=100)
202285.68
20236.30%91.08
20243.26%94.04
20252.60%96.48
20263.64%100.00
6. Worked example. A product verified at R100.00 in 2026 on this category model backcasts to R85.68 in 2022 (index 85.68 ÷ 100 × R100.00). Each retailer line on every chart uses the same formula from its own verified 2026 price.
7. Regional modifiers (2026 only). National anchors adjusted by province: Western Cape +2.5% retail / +4% hire; Gauteng +3.5% retail / +2% hire; KwaZulu-Natal −1.5% retail / −5% hire (coastal supply discounts vs inland Gauteng premiums).
8. Other category models on this site. Drinks & Alcohol (excise-heavy), Party Food (food CPI + cold chain), Snacks & Treats (packaging + retail margin), Party Supplies (import FX + packaging), Costume Hire (services + retail margin). Each uses the same eight drivers with different weights.
Generated June 2026. Sources: Stats SA CPI & PPI (P0141, P0142), SARS excise gazettes, DMRE/DMPR fuel & LPG gazettes, NERSA/Eskom tariff determinations, SARB USD/ZAR, Dept of Employment & Labour minimum-wage gazettes, NAMC food-basket survey, SAB industry pricing, and live retailer / hire pricing. 2025–2026 driver rates are estimates anchored to the 3.2% / ~3.5% headline prints. All backcast figures are model estimates in ZAR unless noted.