Cadbury Dairy Milk Creamy Advent Calendar - 170g

Dairy Milk is the chocolate most British people quietly measure all other chocolate against, and the Cadbury advent calendar is the first sign in a UK house that Christmas is actually coming. It goes up on the windowsill, and suddenly the countdown is real.

People in Canada go looking for this one for a simple reason. You want your kids opening the same purple calendar you did, or you want it for yourself and are past pretending otherwise. Either is a perfectly good reason.

It is a 170g calendar with the chocolate spread across the doors, and it stands up happily on a shelf, a mantelpiece or the top of the fridge. Keep it somewhere cool, away from the radiator and the tree lights, or the later doors get a bit soft and sorry for themselves.

Most people pick up a bar of Dairy Milk at the same time, because one small chocolate a day is a lot of willpower to ask of a grown adult. A Cadbury selection box for Christmas morning tends to follow.