Nestlé Milkybar Reindeer - 88g

Milkybar is the white chocolate a lot of British children meet first, long before they have opinions about dark chocolate. Come December, the chocolate shapes join the selection boxes in the shops, and the reindeer is one of the favourites.

Here it is mostly bought by people who remember finding one in their own stocking and want their children to have the same Christmas morning. Some are buying for themselves. That is allowed.

It is a proper 88g figure, wrapped and ready, and it fits nicely in the toe of a stocking or on a plate by the tree. Keep it in a cool cupboard, well away from the radiator, unless you fancy a reindeer that has had a long lie-down.

It sits happily alongside the rest of the British Christmas food people send for: a UK selection box, a tin to pass round after dinner, a few stocking fillers for the grown-ups who still insist on getting one.