Food&Drink Writer Cara Scott shares her list of exciting advent calendars to try this year, ranging from traditional chocolate to wine, gin, and even cheese

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We all love a good chocolate advent calendar to count down to the big day of the year, or maybe you prefer a non-chocolate or a drink-based calendar – but the question is which ones are the best? I have looked at the top advent calendars for this year and put together a list so you can decide for yourself! 

 

The best chocolate advent calendars

Lindt Lindor – the perfect smooth chocolate truffles for winter with assorted flavours – £10

Toblerone – shaped as a triangle and contains an assortment of the main 4 flavours – £5.99

Cadbury white chocolate – new for this year! – £2.19

Maltesers truffles – all individually wrapped, these are very moreish and taste luxurious but you don’t have to pay a fortune – £9.99

Percy Pig – this is my advent calendar this year and it contains chocolates every day apart from day 24 which is a bag of Percy pigs! – £5

Reese’s peanut butter cup advent calendar – containing white, milk and dark chocolate flavours and two full size white peanut butter cups behind window 24 – £5

Hotel Chocolat’s Cholate advent calendar – all of these chocolates are sculptured in 40% milk chocolate – £8

Montezuma’s vegan chocolate – vegan chocolate in 100% recycled packaging – £8.99

Green and Black’s organic – 24 bite size bites of 5 flavours; butterscotch, 70% classic dark, milk chocolate, ginger dark chocolate and 85% dark – £12

Quality street – containing all the flavours from the original box – £5

 

The best non-chocolate food advent calendars

Stokes sauces – for the condiment lovers in your life, this calendar contains a mix of 24 of stokes most loved ketchups, mayonnaises, relishes, chutneys and preserves – £35

Gourmet marshmallow – a range of flavours such as candy floss, salted caramel, chocolate orange, mint choc chip, cookies and cream and fizzy watermelon! – £15

Popcorn shed Gourmet popcorn – with flavours such as salted caramel, pecan pie, pop n choc and more – £20

Walker’s shortbread – includes shortbread fingers, rounds and mini chocolate chip shortbread – £14.99

Candy kittens (Sweets – vegan) – these cat shaped sweets come in a range of flavours and are vegan! – £8

Spicery – the go-to gift for all curry lovers, this contains a range of fragrant spice blends from kormas to madras – £29.95

Doritos – chilli, cool and cheese, all the flavours you could need and behind each window is a full-sized packet of Doritos – £19.99

Haribo – little packets of merry treats – £7.99

Snaffling Pig Pork Scratching – flavours include BBQ, maple and salted – £18

Ilchester cheese – all the cheeses are individually wrapped, such as Applewood and Jarlsberg – £21.99

 

The best drinks advent calendars

Whittard’s hot chocolate – with 12 different flavours of hot chocolate, this calendar is designed for 2 people, how cute! – £60 

PG tips tea – behind each window are two tea bags, containing flavours such as Original, decaf, English breakfast, earl grey, green tea, raspberry and peppermint – £11.99

Pukka Herbal Tea – tea flavours range from vanilla chai, peppermint and liquorice – £9.39

Waterdrop – fancy a booze free Christmas? This calendar features 25 alcohol free micro drinks containing vitamins, real fruit and plant extracts! There are three sizes to choose from – ranging upwards from £17.90

Bailey’s – only 12 days but includes original Irish cream, coffee and orange truffle. – £29.99

Prosecco O Clock – shaped as a 3D wooden clock, you can pick each miniature bottle from each hour of the clock – £109.95

Tipsy Advent Tree – shaped like a Christmas tree, this contains 24 miniature bottles of red, white and rose wine – £85

Word Beer – contains 24 different types of beer from across the world – £60

Premium Pink Gin – contains only 12 bottles, but has pink gins from various producers – £44.99

ALDI’s wine – behind each door is a different miniature bottle of red, white, rose and fizz – £49.99

 

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