What do you do with your chocolates?

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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?

OOOH!!! I have to get to The Range right now - I need the Christmas tree sweetie jar.

Like this?

https://homesweethomeware.co.uk/products/glass-christmas-tree-storage-jar

Sounds like it might be the plan!

Very much like that - that's nicer than the range one... choices, choices :)

Every year : big cut glass bowls with Quality Steet , big wooden bowl with nuts in shells and a large metal bowl thing with grapes and satsumas in.
After Eights and dates how they come.

( there’s only two of us 😬)

Noooooo!

Luckily the Lindor are still in shiny wrappers, I think.

That pudding jar linked is pretty cool 😎

Again!

I've already had to resist buying them now in case they don't make it to Christmas.

I am so intrigued by this answer.

The Christmas TRAIN?

Mine don't last long enough to get into any container other than my stomach.

I may be going down the same rabbit hole 😂

I've always put Quality Street in a glass trifle bowl because they looked so nice and festive, but they've changed the wrappers and they look boring and shit unattractive now, so I won't buy any this year.

Festive bowl like everyone else. We also have a revolting/amazing plate on duck feet that we use exclusively for Lindor and try to keep away from the kids

Ours must be divided into labelled kilner jars to ensure everyone gets an equal amount of the good ones or utter chaos ensues 🙈 It is pretty though!!

I have a selection of glass & ceramic bowls but now want the Christmas pudding bowl!

I eat them.

I have a big heavy glass jar in the coffee table , miraculously it has survived our Female Cat who likes throwing things onto the floor (two fruit bowls shattered )

I'll get some Malteaser ones (pretty red wrappers) mini Toblerones and a tub of Heroes or Celebrations . No-one likes Quality Street or Roses.

Any left over get melted down into sauce or baked into chocolate brownies

I hide them and once a day let everyone eat one. My teens would demolish them otherwise.

I use Christmassy cake tins, but a large glass bowl would be nice too

Any left over get melted down into sauce or baked into chocolate brownies

This is a nice idea.

Normally they hang around here, stubbornly, until the very last one is eaten - around the middle of January. We all lower our standards more and more until we are prepared to eat whatever is left!

We also have a revolting/amazing plate on duck feet that we use exclusively for Lindor and try to keep away from the kids

This intrigued me so much I went looking for 'plates with duck feet'.

Amazing.

(though it did also bring back lots of pictures of plated and cooked duck's feet; which was less amazing)

A crystal bowl, kind you make trifle in?

I’m in your group as well. They usually on a shelf near where I’m sitting so I can pass them on or not depending on my mood.
I do have a small bowl about ramekin size to display some of them for a very short time occasionally.

Few little bowls scattered around the house. I have some cute Emma bridgewater Christmas stuff that usually gets laden with quality street, lovely little star shaped plates.

Chocolates sitting around the house is actually what makes Christmas for me 😂

I love seeing bowls of chocs in people’s houses in the run up to Christmas. Reminds me of visiting relatives as a child.

The original Quality Street wrappers were much better, agreed!

I have a tin that had biscuits from Debenhams I think originally, it's in the shape of a book (night before Christmas) and has a lovely picture of some mice hanging decorations on it. I mix a range of chocs for full shiny effect, although am sad about the quality street wrappers this year.