chocolates in the Christmas Tins

If your an eco-warrior and hell bent on buying the expensive chocolaters in Tins.
Tescos have purple Quality street in tins down to five pounds.
Same price as plastic tubs,at least tin is easier to recycle.

They only encourage piggy-ness anyway. Avoid them. Just get a couple of boxes of some good quality chocolates.

ayes- have they changed the ingredients or have we just got more sophisticated tastes these days? Like you I want my calories to be amazingly delicious.

I don’t buy Cadbury anymore. They are disgusting and made with cheaper ingredients. I told DH I’d rather have a small box of lovely chocolates rather than a big container with unpleasant rubbish.

Info man- at £1.25p that would mean we could all get fat very cheaply?

I always find a use for the plastic boxes, and the tins were always pressed into service. I wouldn’t be prepared to pay extra for tins because the chocolates are pretty awful these days - especially Roses. And, as Riverwalk says, by changing the shape of the box, they can reduce the weight of the contents without reducing the price! Unfortunately, DH likes them?.

I'm just sorting through the bits of crap Xmas baubles and lights some of which are stored in a Cadbury's Rose tin which says best before 1997.

The tin looks twice the height of current ones but standard for the time - content states 1.9kg, excluding wrappings, probably half as much these days!

At least the plastic boxes are reusable unlike plastic coated paper and single use plastics. I’m a bit of a dinosaur and believe that many old fashioned way of life was preferable to rampant consumerism.

I liked the tins - we used them as cake tins for years. When I was at school and if you did Domestic Science you needed to take one with you to bring you cooking home - before Tupperware.

I found tins in Morrisons and as you say they were more expensive than those in plastic. It makes me cross that there is little choice and plastic is everywhere.

I do reuse plastic sweet tins (?) but I wish they were square. So much easier to store

I do try to re-use the plastic boxes rather than throw them out. Probably best not to buy them at all.