What do you do with your chocolates?

[ShufflingHedgehogs]

Maybe it's just us, but each year we buy tubs of wrapped chocolates, like Quality Street or Roses - or something a bit nicer

I never know what to do with them. I want to put them out around the house so everyone can just grab what they want but I hate having the plastic tubs lying about.

Does anyone have any inventive ideas for putting out chocolates in a decorative way?

I did think of a large glass jar, like a biscotti jar. I am just worried it might be a bit heavy?

We have a festive ceramic bowl that sits on the coffee table, [[https://www.marksandspencer.com/christmas-cracker-serving-bowl/p/hbp60614258#intid=pid_pg1pip48g4r3c4 www.marksandspencer.com/christmas-cracker-serving-bowl/p/hbp60614258#intid=pid_pg1pip48g4r3c4 this sort of thing. It rations them out a bit more too as it's easy to sit and dip repeatedly into the tub until you feel sick. And the tubs don't look very nice.

Not a bad idea @TheNoodlesIncident - thanks!

Without a lid, we'd have to keep it higher up and out of the reach of the dog. He doesn't normally bother, but I'd hate to risk it over Xmas.

But this could work!

We've got a ceramic Christmas pudding where the white sauce is the lid. It's so cute.

Sort of like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ceramic-Handmade-Christmas-Pudding-Cookie/dp/B0182HM7IK/ref=asc_df_B0182HM7IK/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=390060779202&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16941534942592460117&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046655&hvtargid=pla-827777449129&psc=1&mcid=fc567c883f2d30ee87a8d220fafc0ae3&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=80150922856&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=390060779202&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16941534942592460117&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046655&hvtargid=pla-827777449129

Sorry for the enormous link. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Little glass trifle bowls dotted about, out of reach of the dog, of course.

Or a clip top kilner jar on the coffee table

@Squirrelblanket That's such a great design!

I am glad you are not already looking for ideas to use them up!
We have a festive bowl too. No idea where it will go now we have moved- no mantle piece!

I bought a cut glass bowl from a charity shop after someone on here suggested it a few years back. It sits in the living room from Christmas Eve onwards.

OP, I guess you could operate a 3-tier system with this?

Chocolates in smaller top one, savoury snacks in middle one, Christmas crafts/non-food items in bottom tin, perhaps?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Muddy-Hands-Set-Christmas-Chocolate/dp/B0BN4FV1PJ

Put them straight in your mouth?!
😁

@Newstaronthehorizon I like your thinking...

I put mine in the Christmas train 🚂

I have some cut glass bowls that have been passed down to me, but you can get them for nothing from charity shops

We have a big glass sweetie jar with a lid, and I tie a red velvet ribbon around it. It gets filled up with various flavours of Lindor, and starts on the first of December.

"...but I hate having the plastic tubs lying about."

Oh, FFS. Get over yourself and let the family have their chocolates.

I’ve got a small wicket type basket for fruit and a Christmas plate for sweets, the sweets doesn’t last long, so I only put a handful out a day 🤣

I put the old style Wuality Street in glass bowls. I like the way they twinkle. Others stay in the pantry & come out when we fancy them.

I always hide the tub in the cupboard and get it out once in a while, or the chocs would be gone in a day. And I don't have any qualms about the plastic being visible (though I did prefer it when it was a tin). However, I seem to have a clear picture in my mind of the kind of glass sweet bowl that should be used - I don't know why! Anyway I've looked for the sweetie bowl of my mind's eye online, and it's something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BK9CLMMZ/ref=sspa_dk_detail_5?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B0BK9CLMMZ&pd_rd_w=vnRbF&content-id=amzn1.sym.84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_p=84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_r=XFRM8HEP4KPVPAX43QRN&pd_rd_wg=MrQZN&pd_rd_r=6874b7e5-52f2-4e87-91d4-7473fc3a7278&s=kitchen&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw

😂. That's were mine go. I don't have them long enough to worry about how I'm gonna display them

https://www.therange.co.uk/christmas/christmas-decorations/models-scenes-ornaments-and-figurines/christmas-ornaments-and-figurines/glass-christmas-tree/#171412

I’ve got this glass Christmas tree jar from The Range for sweeties, not that they last long in there!

oooohhhh pretty pink ones
https://www.amazon.co.uk/MASSJOY-European-Nostalgic-Relief-Seasoning/dp/B0B9MHR7X8?th=1

I'm going down a rabbit hole now and will end up buying something...

Obviously you need a whole set of little glass bowls so you can separate them out by colour and dot them round the house (after you've eaten all the best ones of course)

I put quality street in a short glass vase but I bought some recently and they have switched to paper wrappers and it's just not the same!

My optician has a fantastic large glass Christmas tree, that I covet for exactly this sort of thing (I have a pumpkin one for Halloween).

No-one knows where it came from, and I've never seen one for sale myself.

Merry Christmas to you too!