How much spend on Christmas chocolates?

[MsMiaWallace]

How much do you roughly spend on Christmas chocs for your household at xmas?
I love Hotel Chocolat but it's bloody expensive.,

We don’t buy any chocolate for the household at Christmas. I put chocolate in the DC’s stocking (usually a Lindt reindeer or something), and they tend to get loads of selection boxes from things like brownies and their dance classes, so that’s what they have. Wouldn’t really occur to me to buy chocolate for DH and I. Sometimes we get bought some, I remember having some hotel chocolat penguins one year but wasn’t too impressed with them.

@Runnerduck34 Tesco have the large tins, noticed they had them for Heroes too.

I assume they meant that they are not good quality to be worth paying that kind of money. While it matters less if cheap chocolate tastes cheap.

I don't buy any chocolate for the house as we always get some and I am not a fan anyway. I do get chocolate coins for everyone's stockings, plus dp and ds get chocolate sprouts as they don't eat real ones. Ds will have an additional sweetie thing, like something from Harry potter in his stocking, dp will have a wee box of nice chocolates in his stocking. That is it. So I wouldn't be expecting to spend more than around £35/40. If Ds has not got anything looking like a selection box, I will buy a flake to crush on top of raspberries and kiwis on my pavlova.

Hardly anything , we would rather have biscuits and I haven’t bought the tub type for quite a while as most of them are disgusting . If I’m going to eat chocolate I’d rather have quality over quantity .

Nothing. I mean, no more than usual. Some weeks we have chocolate sometimes not.

0 we both get hampers from work with all of the goodies including chocolates which is 🙌

Probably spend about £5 on a tub of quality street. The rest will come from gifts to the children or from DH's work.
I will, however, spend loads on cheese, crackers, crisps, nuts and other savoury nibbles!

For DS (14) a very large galaxy bar, big pack or two of buttons, one big tube of smarties , one box of Ferrero Rocher

For DH a couple of standard Bendicks bitter mints and a large Bendicks selection box and some walnut whips

20-30 Lindt chocolates that I hang as Christmas tree chocolates

For me - box of chocolate cherries,
Pink tube of smarties

For house for guests - chocolate florentines , champagne lindor

We love our chocolate for Christmas and do like a splurge (expensive and cheap chocs)

Pierre Marcolini (£60)
Côte d’Or (£20)
After eights (£2)
Ferrero Roche (£8)
M&S Swiss chocs (£10)
M&S salted caramel pine cones (£10)

We have lots of our family staying for Christmas hence so many options

Audrey’s, which makes chocolates for Fortnum & Mason.

Def recommend the M&S praline chunk things in gold wrappers. Their boxes of truffles etc are great value esp if on offer. Also love Benedict’s.

I eat about half a chocolate orange a year lol.

It has to be the dark one too as I cant stand milk chocolate, Im not a big chocoholic though.

I buy one box of gingerbread gin truffles from a local chocolatier. I enjoy every nibble.

I wouldn’t eat the ones like QS, Roses etc- wasted calories on sub standard chocolate.

Ones that are given to us, I leave for DH and DSs.

We usually get a gift from a company we use of an enormous chocolate Hotel Chocolat wreath box, which lasts us for months, but we don't buy it ourselves. It's good but not as good as some. Then again, I'm also happy with a galaxy bar!

Nobody has mentioned constantly spending £1 on terrys choc oranges in the run up as you keep eating them... just me?

Yes to this every bloody year! 😂

I must spend more on the chocolate oranges than I do on anything else. Because I replace them then eat the replacement!

This one - hoping they send another one this year!

Forgot to add we get given loads of chocolate every year so other than the choc orange just buy a couple of tubs of Roses and Quality street and some Lindt.

Another vote for Audreys. I buy their pick your own boxes a couple of times a year for myself, but go all out at Christmas with chocolates from them. Absolutely worth every penny, especially the coffee creams!

I try to support small local businesses - Paul A Young and Dark Sugars are both quite easy to get for gifts.

For myself I like a mix - usually get a small box of one of the above and I like lindor too which I often buy for myself.

I usually buy one box of chocolates for the house, this year it's hotel Chocolat, so I think £24.50, I've probably spent another £10 between three stockings on Toblerone and Lindt. I might get some chocolate covered marzipan if I see some that look nice.

We'll receive chocolates for Christmas I'm sure so I don't go crazy.

I don't think I've ever bought one of those big tubs, nothing against them, I just think they'd disappear very quickly, we're a bit more thoughtful eating more expensive chocolates, we'll have 2/3 each of an evening rather than handfuls.

This year, we've got a drum of non alcoholic truffles, a smaller drum of whisky truffles, a box of assorted chocolates, some icy mints, a little box of Napolitans & some Cerisettes.
Also little bags of chocolate coins to go in stockings.

It cost a bit over £100.

Family of 6 and we usually entertain over Christmas. We can have anywhere up to 20 on Christmas Day.

£14 on 2.5kg box of hero's
£10 on 2kg box of celebrations.
I brought 12 terrys chocolate oranges at £1 each.
£5 on 3 packs of after eights

And probably do another £20-30 on random bits for stockings and to eat over Christmas.

So about £60-70 give or take a few quid.

When looking at boxes of chocolates, I find it's less about the chocolate itself and more about the fillings.

I actually quite like HC chocolate but their fillings leave me cold. I think that's just personal taste.

For the last few years we've bought a stack of Choccoco boxed chocolates which have been lovely. £50 for the stack so definately more expensive that Quality Street (which I am also partial to ) but not too bad considering it's the star of the confectionary show.