Snacks & Treats Prices
Chips, chocolate, sweets, biltong, popcorn and party packs — the real 2026 cost of the snack table, reverse-engineered back to 2022.
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.
Beef biltong sliced — 250g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 5 retailersBeef biltong sticks — 6 pack
Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailersBeef jerky original — 50g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 1 retailerDroëwors — 100g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 2 retailersDroëwors — 250g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailersKudu biltong — 100g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 2 retailersOstrich biltong — 100g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 3 retailersStrips & Snapsticks — 30g
Biltong & Dried Meat · 1 retailerBakers Marie biscuits — 200g
Biscuits & Cookies · 5 retailersBakers Romany Creams — 200g
Biscuits & Cookies · 5 retailersBakers Tennis biscuits — 200g
Biscuits & Cookies · 4 retailersLoading 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
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.