THE festive season is quickly approaching and if you’re looking for a sweet way to get in the spirit you can’t go wrong with an advent calendar.
If you have the will power not to dig in before December, now might be the best time to pick up your Cadbury calendar.
With just weeks left until Christmas, most UK supermarkets have already stocked their festive buys.
This includes a wide variety of advent calendar options, including the crowd favourite Cadbury’s buy.
The Sun has rounded up the best deals on this festive tradition, with one retailer offering 50% off the treat.
Best value
While the 90 gram Cadbury Dairy Milk Christmas Chocolate Advent Calendar normally retails for £2.50 to £3, many outlets have slashed the price in pre-Christmas offers.
Online retailer Ocado has reduced the advent calendar from £2.50 to just £2.
Sainsbury’s has offered customers the same reduction, while Waitrose slashed a whole pound off the price of the item.
Previously marked at £3, the supermarket cut the price down to just £2.
However, the cheapest offer and the best value, as well as the biggest savings can be found at Iceland.
The frozen food store has slashed a whopping 50% off the price of the calendar.
This Cadbury buy went from £3 to just £1.50 as part of half-price sale at the chain.
Advent calendars
And if you’re not someone with a sweet tooth, there are other advent calendar options available.
Beauty fans can pick up a Christmas set that features festive nail polishes to count down to December 25th.
The P Louise Advent Calendar is loaded with £567 worth of beauty products.
And the No7 Beauty Advent Calendar that one reviewer described as “very moreish”.
Plus, more advent calendar Black Friday deals you can snap up right now.
How to save money on chocolate
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don’t have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
More on chocolate
Lindt has recently launched two new flavours of its viral chocolate bar.
And a new Terry’s Chocolate Orange flavour has been launched ahead of Christmas.
A discontinued 90s Cadbury chocolate bar has been spotted back on shelves for just 87p after decades.
And Celebrations have made a huge change to tubs ahead of Christmas.
Plus, B&M shoppers have spotted two new flavours of festive chocolate favourites, and they’re scanning at tills for just £1.
