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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 from UK credit cards

How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

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

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

Barclaycard Avios Plus card

Barclaycard Avios Plus Mastercard

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Barclaycard Avios card

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

British Airways American Express Premium Plus

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British Airways American Express

5,000 Avios for signing up and an Economy 2-4-1 voucher for spending £15,000 Read our full review

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital on Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

Capital on Tap Business Rewards Visa

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You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

British Airways Accelerating Business American Express

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

American Express Business Platinum

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American Express Business Gold

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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.

Comments (49)

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  • ankomonkey says:

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

  • KageyWorld says:

    Winter Cabbage Diet here we go !!

  • danksy says:

    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:

    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?

  • Janeyferr says:

    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:

    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:

      What will you do with the cabbages?

      • Mark says:

        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:

          imagine the smell after a couple of days…!

          • The_Pope says:

            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:

    Grabbed the last 5 small cabbages at my local Tesco, will eat 1 and put the rest on ebay probably

  • Janeyferr says:

    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.

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