I counted chocolates in family Christmas tubs… popular pick had 15 fewer treats than its rivals but cost same price

CHRISTMAS wouldn’t beryllium implicit without a ample tub of choccies for the household to enjoy.

M&S has launched its ain contender with a monolithic 700g enactment of Mini Bites.

But with everyone feeling the pinch, immoderate brands person reduced their sizes, meaning less chocs.

Celebrations person shrunk from 600g past twelvemonth to 550g, portion the terms is up by 50p.

Laura Stott totted up the contents of immoderate celebrated household favourites to find retired however they compare.

CADBURY ROSES 550g, £6 - 51 chocs

THE fashionable bluish tub contained less chocolates to stock than immoderate of its competitors.

There were a bully fig of signature Dairy Milk minis, hazelnut successful caramels and orangish cremes.

But fans of the signature truffle volition person to beryllium speedy arsenic determination are lone 4 successful the container I opened.

The instrumentality is the aforesaid value arsenic past year, but volition present outgo you an other 50p.

QUALITY STREET 600g, £6 - 65 chocs

MORE chocs than immoderate different tub – and astatine 600g, the purple offering is the second-biggest connected the shelves, arsenic good arsenic being the aforesaid size arsenic past year.

That said, the terms has accrued by 50p from 12 months ago.

There were plentifulness of Fudge and Orange Cremes to bask and a decent magnitude of the celebrated Purple Ones, though Green Triangle devotees whitethorn consciousness short-changed with conscionable 4 up for grabs.

MARS CELEBRATIONS 550g, £6 - 59 chocs

THERE’S not overmuch to observe successful presumption of size, with the tub shrinking from 600g successful 2023 to 550g this year, portion the terms is up by 50p.

If you emotion Snickers, Mars Bars oregon Milky Ways you’ll find tons of each.

Sadly, though, determination was lone 1 Snickers successful this tub, which was inedible owed to the damaged packaging, portion the Maltesers and Galaxy Caramel number came successful astatine conscionable 5 each.

LINDT ASSORTED 337g, £10 - 27 chocs

POSH and pricey, Swiss Lindt choccies are larger than the mean idiosyncratic wrapped cocoa treat, which explains wherefore you get less successful this sharing box.

There’s a reasonably adjacent magnitude of each antithetic benignant of truffle, with conscionable 1 less salted caramel compared to the others.

An costly enactment though.

There were:

• 7 Milk (red)
• 7 White
• 7 Coconut (pale blue)
• 6 Salted Caramel (dark blue)

MALTESERS ASSORTED TRUFFLES 200g, £5.75 - 21 chocs

MARS, which makes Maltesers, describes this saltation connected its acquainted marque arsenic “the malt crunch you cognize and love, positive a creamy truffle filling, each wrapped successful our finest white, acheronian and beverage chocolate”.

If you similar your chocs successful your sharing container to beryllium a small lighter, past Maltesers acceptable the brief, but the 200g packet is alternatively small.

There are doubly the fig of beverage choc balls than achromatic and acheronian combined, truthful you volition person to determination rapidly if those are your favourites.

CADBURY HEROES 550g, £6 - 60 chocs

THERE is plentifulness to scoff successful this elephantine tub of perennial household favourites, which contains 60 idiosyncratic chocolates.

The value is the aforesaid arsenic 2023, but this twelvemonth determination is simply a 50p summation successful price.

With 11 each, determination were much than treble the fig of Dinky Deckers and Fudge than the different chocs.

Twirl was the lowest with four, portion Dairy Milk, Dairy Milk Caramel and Creme Egg were 5 each.

MARKS & SPENCER MINIBITES SELECTION TUB £10, 700g - 48 chocs

NEW for Christmas this year, M&S has launched a elephantine sharing tub of its much-loved mini bites.

At £10 it’s pricey, but the 700g tub is the biggest supermarket enactment around, with 48 good-sized cocoa treats inside.

There are lone 3 antithetic types of treats but the dispersed is beauteous adjacent – 15 Chocolate Mini Rolls, 16 Caramel Crispies, and 17 Cranberry Clusters – truthful determination are plentifulness to spell round.

TESCO FINEST FREE FROM TIFFIN SELECTION BOX £5 - 12 chocs

THOSE with dietary requirements oregon intolerances which forestall them enjoying modular dairy-based chocolates tin consciousness alternatively near retired astatine Christmas, truthful this free-from sharing battalion is simply a large alternative.

And the adjacent amounts of Cranberry and Orange, Belgian Choc and Rocky Road Tiffin successful the container means determination won’t beryllium immoderate arguments astir who gets what either.