AIBU to buy Christmas chocolate last year?

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I have done it a few years running now. After christmas all of the chocolate coins go for 10p and the chocolate Santas and reigndeer are 25p so I buy enough for my kids and other children's I buy for.
I check the dates and last years say they are okay until April 2020.
It saves me money and it is in date.
I was just reading another thread about someone buying their advent calendar a year ahead and I honestly thought it was normal (at least for lower income families.) But now I am not sure I should be gifting year old chocolate. No one has noticed but then again I haven't told.

Would you think it's disgusting? Or is it fine?

It's in date? Of course thats fine!!!

I would (and do this) for my kids because I know the chances of chocolate making it to 3-4 months in this house are nigh on impossible but I wouldn't for other families who might not open/eat them within the BB date.

I've never done it because I thought the chocolate would get that nasty white fur on it. Doesn't it?

My children's advent calendars bought this year go out of date in March. So I don't think buying them a year ahead would work.

If they are in date that is one thing and you can store them correctly. But not everything keeps that long.

Not sure I'd even notice. Would be too busy eating the chocolate.

As long as stored OK. I don't see why not.
I personally don't because I would eat it. But I'd Imagine it be ok

I did that this year, chocolate coins for stockings... I did forget where I had hid them though which meant they couldn't be eaten before Christmas (a real risk in this house!) found them last night when sorting boxes out!

Chocolate keeps fine in a cool dark storage area. If you put it in the fridge it gets the white bloom.

I wouldn’t do it myself. Purely because it would not make it past January in this house.

How have you managed to not eat it?

I can't buy the chocolate treats a month before Christmas otherwise they disappear into my tummy.

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I put them all in a box behind the xmas decs and it is such a fuss to get to them that I don't bother!
It is like an xmas present to myself because when taking out the xmas tree and decs I see the chocolates from last year and I think 'Yay!' I genuinely forget every year!

I think it's absolutely fine.

So long as you can store them in a cool dark place. It would need to not get too warm even in the height of summer, which is quite a challenge. Even if it is out of date it still won't hurt, there is a great margin of tolerance in best before dates so long as things are correctly stored,

I think it is a great idea! The only reason I wouldn't do it is that I know I would forget where I had put them, and wouldn't be able to find them the next Christmas. Who am I kidding - I would have forgotten where they were before the end of January.

If it’s in date I see absolutely nothing wrong with that at all! I’m not sure why others would to be honest! I think it’s a sensible thing to do and I often do similar, though honestly it wouldn’t last the year in my house😂😂😂 but that’s not because I’d have an issue with eating it the following Christmas it’s because we are very greedy😂😂😂

Perfectly fine, so long as stored properly. Does make me wonder how much of last year's chocolate is still being sold to us this year, which is mildly cheeky. A lot of it has quite short dates.