CHRISTMAS is just around the corner and if you’re looking to stock up on Christmas chocolate tubs we’ve checked out the best offers around.
Everyone loves a sweet treat during the festive season and whether your preference is for Cadbury Heroes, Celebrations or a classic tub of Quality Street these are the cheapest prices.
If you’re partial to a tub of Quality Street, both Aldi and Lidl are selling 600g tubs for £4.49 – making them the cheapest out there.
In comparison Sainsbury’s and Tesco are selling the chocolates for £4.50 for Nectar and Clubcard holders, while Asda has priced them at £6 individually, or £9 for two.
Morrisons is also pricing the tubs at £6, while Ocado is charging £5.
Quality Street was launched in 1936 and has been a favourite with families since.
The selection includes ‘the purple one’ which brings together hazelnut and caramel, the toffee finger, orange chocolate crunch, strawberry delight and ‘the green triangle’.
Cadbury Heroes lovers can also pick up 550g tubs for £4.50 from Sainsbury’s and Tesco if they are Nectar or Clubcard members.
Asda has Heroes tubs included in its two for £9 deal, meaning if you’re happy to double up you can pick them up at the supermarket for the same price as Tesco and Sainsbury’s shoppers.
Meanwhile, Aldi is selling the tubs for £4.99 and Morrisons for £6.
The Heroes selection includes Cadbury Dairy Milk, Twirl and Crunchie.
Celebrations are also available for £4.50 from Tesco for Clubcard members, or as part of Asda’s two for £9 deal.
Aldi is selling the tubs for £4.99, Sainsbury’s for £6 and Morrisons for £6.
The Celebrations selection includes Mars, Snickers, Twix, Bounty and Galaxy.
If you’re sharing chocolates with family this year and want to pick up a selection of tubs Asda’s two for £9 deal, which includes Quality Street, Cadbury Heroes, Celebrations, Cadbury Roses and a Swizzels assortment, may be the way to go.
Whatever you’re looking to stock up on ahead of Christmas make sure you shop around.
As we get closer to the big day shoppers can expect to see supermarkets offering more deals as they look to attract the lucrative festive spend.
Shoppers can check prices before they hit the supermarket aisles using comparison tools such as trolley.co.uk.
Customers discovered they can no longer visit their local John Lewis store to create personalised Quality Street tins this week.
The service had allowed shoppers to purchase a £17 tin with a personalised gift card and lid.
They could then fill these tins with their favourite Quality Street chocolates from dedicated pick-and-mix counter.
However, while the pick-and-mix counters still exist, shoppers can’t get a personalised Quality Street tin this winter.
Instead, they must opt for the £12 non-customised version.
However, Nestle did launch a new version of its 813g Quality Street tin in September.
The £12 tub features all the usual classic flavours and plays on Quality Street’s Halifax heritage – where it was first manufactured continues to be produced.
It can also be purchased empty and filled at any of John Lewis’ Quality Street pick and mix stations.
If you’re not fussed about the nostalgic tin or picking your chocolates, you’ll pay less for a different tub or packet.
This week, shoppers can pick up a plastic 600g tub from Lidl for £3.89 – 65p per 100g.
Nestle has also brought back a Quality Street fan-favourite for the second Christmas in a row.
The coffee creme flavour chocolate was last seen in Quality Street tubs over 20 years ago until the chocolatier reintroduced it last year.
The coffee-flavour fondant wrapped in dark chocolate has joined the 11 other Quality Street sweets at pick-and-mix stations across selected John Lewis stores in the UK.
They are also available in a limited-edition cracker at Waitrose and John Lewis stores for £5.50.
For the first time, Nestle has also launched paper tubs.
The tubs are available at 60 Tesco supermarkets.
Their introduction is part of a trial, and Nestle will gauge the product’s popularity among shoppers.
It claims the paper tub, adorned in the signature Quality Street purple, boasts a luxurious design and feel.
They feature a “re-close” mechanism that ensures the lid can be securely sealed even after opening.
This isn’t the first time Quality Street has introduced new packaging to make the festive favourites easier to recycle.
Nestle left shoppers outraged when it changed the Quality Street chocolate wrappers for the same reason in October 2022.
The iconic brightly coloured plastic and foil wrappers that had encased its famous chocolates for 86 years were replaced with a more understated form of waxed paper.
However, the introduction of new paper tubs does not signal the immediate discontinuation of plastic and metal Quality Street tins.
Shoppers can still buy 600g plastic tubs of Quality Street chocolates at most major supermarkets.
Tins containing over 800g of the festive chocolates continue to be available too.
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Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
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