Well I love my Cadburys advent calendar its the only chocolate I have had since September!I gave my GS a John Lewis gingerbread cookie one and he was so happy he hugged it he takes it to school for his snack - dont care if its poitically incorrect according to the food police I love it when he's happy!
This is the first year - for the last quarter of a century, anyway, that I have NOT bought an advent calendar - I was just thinking of that as I trudged around ASDA and it made me quite miserable! But really, 25 is just too old for one, as I keep telling DD1.
Then you DO have to eat all the chocolate in one go, which amounts to probably half of a very small bar of chocolate [if that]. One tiny iota of chocolate gets me wanting to eat it for the rest of the day. Someone gave me a very large block of chocolate the other morning and I [I'm ashamed to say ] ate the whole lot.
I won't give the chocolate ones either; takes away the whole meaning of advent calendars and I don't like them eating chocolate first thing in the morning [especially if they're going to school afterwards]. By the way, thanks to whoever put up the link for the Jacquie Lawson advent calendar; my two grandsons absolutely love it! We rather go to town on advent stuff; got the playmobil one and a train with a draw for each day. Biggest disappointment ever was the Ninja turtle one from way back; my son was so disappointed to find pictures of pizzas etc each day.
I'm a meany and don't buy chocolate ones. Youngest daughter's work colleagues didn't believe the non-chocolate ones really existed! I like typing "f" in front of emoticons - it makes me feel as though I am swearing
Does anyone else find that the tiny bit you get just gives you a longing for more, more, more!!! (was in a panic this morning cos couldn't find number 4)
We torture our grandkids with these, don't we?!
Unless..............
they are very sensible shocking and eat them all in one go.