Anyone here live in Sweden?

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Can I check what chocolate/sweets are available in Sweden? My brother lives there with his Swedish wife and my 2 nephews. I’d like to send across some sweets along with their Christmas presents, but everything is so international these days I’m not sure what would be unavailable there? I don’t want to ask as that would ruin the surprise. Can you get:

Curly wurly
Cadbury fudge
Chewits
Milky Way stars

After eight mints
Terry choc orange

Any other suggestions that would be great much appreciated

You can definitely get after eights, and sometimes chocolate oranges. I don't eat sweets so I am not sure about chewits- you can get all the haribo stuff here. You can't get sherbet Lemons, éclairs, rhubarb and custard or percy pigs though! Or twirls or flakes! Or plain biscuits like rich tea, ginger nuts, custard creams.

My family at home in Sweden really like the different types of chocolate orange and they go nuts for crisps :)

Yes, you don't get so many flavours here! (We have plain, cheese, and oddly, peanut butter, but not much else).

I don’t think you can send anything that contains dairy or meat - due to us not being in the EU - so that rules out chocolate and many biscuits, and probably anything that contains gelatine, so that might include lots of sweets. And watch out on customs charges at the other end. I sent a large cardboard advent calendar- no sweets or chocolate - to my DD in Europe and she was charged £20 on collecting it - which seemed completely wrong.

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I don’t think you can send anything that contains dairy or meat - due to us not being in the EU - so that rules out chocolate and many biscuits, and probably anything that contains gelatine, so that might include lots of sweets. And watch out on customs charges at the other end. I sent a large cardboard advent calendar- no sweets or chocolate - to my DD in Europe and she was charged £20 on collecting it - which seemed completely wrong.

Slight hijack- that does sound wrong. If the retailer isn't covering duty to EU then you have to pay if they've declared goods to be over £135 in value afaik. I've only been stung once so far, when I hadn't realised a clothes shop wasn't covering the duty.

OP- Places like British Corner Shop are still shipping food/confectionery as they've opened a hub in the EU. Otherwise Republic of Ireland based stores, and of course Amazon will deliver still. If just chocolate etc there's also The Chocolate Emporium to look into.

Crisps are a great idea. I haven’t heard that he has had to pay any customs charges and I!ve sent quite a few parcels so far this year. I have noticed it’s taking much longer for stuff to get there though. Approx 4 weeks so I’d better get a move on with the Christmas gifts.