Earn cheap Avios by finding very small cabbages

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Yes, I have clearly hit a new low (or high) today in terms of post headlines.

Tesco Clubcard is offering a deal on cabbages at the moment. For every cabbage you buy, you get 20 bonus Clubcard points, so 48 Avios points or 50 Virgin Flying Club miles.

Now, Tesco sells cabbages by weight. 80p per kilo, in general, for white cabbage.

Should you have nothing better to do when next in Tesco, try to find the smallest possible cabbages you can. You should be able to find some tiny ones at around 450g, which would be 35p – 40p. This even works with online grocery orders, because you can specify that you only want to receive small ones which the website prices at 36p.

You get the 20 bonus Clubcard points per cabbage, so the more tiny ones you find, the better!

This doesn’t work for red cabbage, though. They are sold pre-wrapped at 96p, whatever the weight, although you will still get the 20 bonus points.

Thanks to Mark for this, who sent me a scan of his till receipt so I could see how small a cabbage can get! The offer runs until 27th October.

How to earn Avios points from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (December 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards. Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

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You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points, such as:

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.

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ankomonkey says:

18 Oct18 October 09:08

I look forward to seeing “cabbage wars” replace “3V wars” in dominating the Tesco thread on the Flyertalk BA forum…
KageyWorld says:

18 Oct18 October 09:45

Winter Cabbage Diet here we go !!
danksy says:

18 Oct18 October 10:33

I didn’t realise they’d killed the suitcase app! Me and Mrs Danksy managed to rack up 680 avios each …. I can feel a lunchtime trip to tesco coming on…. I wonder how they would feel about people cutting cabbages into chunks and putting into seperate bags ? 😛
Phil says:

18 Oct18 October 10:39

Has anyone tried to use a “Double points” e-coupon on a Tesco online order of cabbages? I have one but i cant use it until next week. Double bubble and squeak?
- Jonny says:
  
  18 Oct18 October 11:06
  
  typically the double points coupons don;t work on bonus points
Janeyferr says:

18 Oct18 October 11:27

I have an extra points voucher for Gu desserts I planned on using today. It’ll be an interesting trolley (and I won’t be buying ready-made coleslaw for a while).
Mark says:

18 Oct18 October 11:44

Just ordered 69 (yes…69!) small white cabbages@£0.36 each via Tesco.com for free Click & Collect at my local store on 23/10/13, all in all it came to a grand total of £25.06. Ordinarily I wouldn’t have bothered but I had £25 in eCoupons that were coming up to their expiry dates, so the actual cost to me has been a whopping 6p which I duly paid with my Clubcard credit card – netting me 1405 Clubcard points!
- Luke says:
  
  18 Oct18 October 11:59
  
  What will you do with the cabbages?
  - Mark says:
    
    18 Oct18 October 12:08
    
    We’ll probably keep a couple and give some to friends & family but the vast majority will go to our local foodbank, keeping 69 cabbages for ourselves would be senseless as we’d only end up throwing them away which would be an utter waste.
    - Jonny says:
      
      18 Oct18 October 12:27
      
      imagine the smell after a couple of days…!
      - The_Pope says:
        
        20 Oct20 October 13:43
        
        Were they, in fact, all “small” and this only £0.36p when you came to collect, Mark?
        
        As per my post at the bottom, I found the Tesco pickers just plucked whatever they want and it was going to cost me more than double the expected amount, which somewhat ruins the points run.
CC says:

18 Oct18 October 12:04

Grabbed the last 5 small cabbages at my local Tesco, will eat 1 and put the rest on ebay probably
- ComeFlyWithMe123 says:
  
  18 Oct18 October 13:06
  
  Oh I did chuckle at this 🙂
  
  Great Post Raffles!!
Janeyferr says:

18 Oct18 October 12:05

I’m back from the shop with 4 white cabbages, 3 red cabbages, two bottles of pickling vinegar and some Gu desserts. The red cabbages were on at price per kilo as well. Each were 60-70p each.

I used scan as you shop as i thought I’d get in the way less using the label printing scales, but they were both out of order so i had to get the young lad to scan them all through individually.