Nestle After Eight Winter Fondants - 57g

After Eight has been part of the British after-dinner moment for generations. It is the chocolate that turns up when the plates are cleared and the grown-ups pretend to be sophisticated for ten minutes.

In Canada, people go looking for it because Christmas is when the habits from home come back hardest. You can do the turkey and the crackers here, but it is the small things, like a box of After Eight on the table, that make it feel like the one you remember.

The pack is a small 57g one, easy to tuck into a stocking or set out after a meal without it turning into a project. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, out of the sun and away from the radiator, and it will wait for you. It will not wait long once someone else knows where it is.

Nestlé makes a wide spread of British favourites, and these sit nicely beside the rest of the Christmas cupboard: a selection box, a tin for passing round on Boxing Day, a few crackers for the table.