MARS has revealed its range of Christmas chocolates that shoppers can stock up on ahead of the festive season.
The chocolate giant is known for its favourites like Maltesers, Galaxy, Mars Bars, Snickers and M&M’s.
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Its Christmas range is always exciting for shoppers too – after all, it includes Celebrations tubs and Maltesers Reindeer.
Mars has now unveiled to The Sun a host of new chocolate treats, as well as some returning favourites.
Among them is a Milky Way Advent Calendar, which is being released for the first time and will be sold exclusively in Asda.
If you’re a Tesco shopper, you’ll be able to get hold of the new Galaxy Miniatures Pouch.
The 260g pouches contain a mix of individually wrapped Galaxy chocolates in the original Smooth Milk and Caramel flavours.
They’re currently selling for £4.50 or £3.95 with a Clubcard.
Some eagle-eyed shoppers have already spotted these in stores, but the Gingerbread Maltesers Reindeer is also part of the new Christmas range.
You can get an individual 29g chocolate reindeer for 70p at Morrisons or 85p at Tesco.
Or you can get a pack of Mini Gingerbread Reindeers.
They’re currently selling for £1.48 in Asda or £2 in Tesco.
There’s also a Maltesers Christmas Mix bag that includes Maltesers Teasers, Mini Reindeers and the new Gingerbread Mini Reindeers.
It’s selling for £3.48 in Asda.
Plus, the much-loved M&M’s Crispy Santa is making a return.
You can get an individually wrapped 29g Crispy Santa, which is £1 at Morrisons.
Or, for the first time, you’ll be able to get it in a five-pack.
Meanwhile, the Maltesers Assorted Truffle Advent Calendar will be available in multiple stores.
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More festive chocolates on shelves
It might feel a bit soon to be thinking about Christmas but plenty of stores are already filling up with bits for the festive season.
Tubs of Christmas favourites Quality Street, Celebrations, Heroes and Roses have already been spotted on shelves.
In Tesco, Quality Street tubs have been slashed in price from £7 to £2.95.
Elsewhere the Cadbury Dairy Milk Winter Mint Crisp is back on shelves, as well as the Cadbury Festive Favourites chocolate box.
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.
