For those who don't eat Nestle products ... what tin of sweets do you get at Christmas?

[MissGreatBritain]

I find that Roses are a bit pants, Celebrations and Heroes aren't really what I'm after either (they're just mini choc bars rather than little sweets). So is there anything else? Anything fair trade would be best. TIA.

we weave lentils into teh form of rollo's

How are Roses pants? They are very nearly identical to Quality St, excep the blocks of chcocolate are proper things like dairy milk.

I agree about Celebrations/Heroes/etc. If I want a mars bar I'll have a mars bar. If I want something little in a foil wrapper I want something special.

i prefer roses too!

I don't get a tin of sweets. Are you supposed to?

I like Bendick's Bittermints at christmas (in fact I'd eat them non-stop but at xmas I let myself go ) However I haven't checked if they're owned by nestle.

We have a large jar of chocolate brazils and another of chocolate raisins from Costco.

ooooooooh! chocolate raisins, now you are talking. sweets that are almost good for you

Foxy - I don't think it's compulsory (although maybe it should be ), but we always like to have a tin of sweets at Christmas, as we don't really buy them at other times.

Maybe I will put together a tin of choc brazils, raisins, toffees etc - thanks for the idea Pesto.

Roses are okay, but still not fair trade choc and seem to have a lot of sweets that are very similar to one another.

WouldYou - maybe you should read up on Nestle's activities in the developing world, and the children that are injured harvesting cocoa before taking the piss.

I have checked and Bendick's are not owned by nestle.

The other thing we do is get dragees, yoghurt coated nuts, raisins & dried pineapple & ginger as my Mum is particualary fond of these too.

I thought Cadbury's had gone fairtrade now?

We like to indulge in a healthy way, us Pestos

Not a tin, but one of the fairtrade choc people (I think Divine) do a clone of After Eights that utterly delicious & much better than proper after eights (loads more chocolate).

My mum always lays out a selection of sweets on a posh tray at xmas with clingfilm over them - same effect as a box but you pick what you put on them, so you can have lots of the sort you like & no hard centres that lurk uneaten. (Its quite a small tray!)

Also it means that short sighted elderly relatives don't have to spend ages peering through the whole tin to find something that won't trash their dentures while the rest of us are desperate to get our hands on the choccies

I buy Nestle stuff all the time, what's the big fuss?

does ethical living require a humour bypass?

Sorry WouldYou - didn't realise it was supposed to be funny.

what, you thought i actually make rollo's out of lentils?

They sound delicious goat, I'll try one.

I thought it was hilarious

sorry, has to be Roses.
i love Cadbury's

(although, i'm being swayed by the lentils idea.....)

Surely no one actually eats lentils? Aren't they just used for small children's art work?

Well you can eat them but like Wouldyou said you have to weave them first so most people don't bother.

would never buy Quality Street

...but if someone gives us a tin, of course we have to eat 'em

[hoping desperately that Cadbury's manage to squeeze out Fairtrade Roses before Christmas]

Seriously do some peope only buy fairtrade?

I have never bought it, unless grabbing something quick from Co-op count