One of the top reasons Christmas is the best time of year is thanks to the food. Tell me I'm wrong - see, you can't; because there are so many mouth-watering morsels to devour. Well, gourmands will be pleased to know that you don’t have to wait 'til the big day to indulge, thanks to the amazing range of decadent food advent calendars available.
You can get an advent calendar totally devoted to cheese, and there are options featuring truffles and marshmallows. And then there’s Fortnum & Mason's stellar offering… We’ve gathered together the best, so keep scrolling and make your choice for a delicious festive countdown.
- Best luxury food advent calendar: Fortnum's Feasting Advent Calendar
- Best for chocoholics: Love Cocoa Luxury Large Chocolate Advent Calendar with Truffles
- Best for cheese addicts: Illchester Cheese Advent Calendar and Hampton Chutney Hamper Set
- Best for him: Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Mega Advent Calendar 2024
- Best for her: Joe & Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar
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How we chose the best food advent calendars
- Variety: Whether you love cheese, crisps or spices, I've chosen a variety of options, including some unique flavours, too.
- Price: I've selected a range of price points for every budget, ranging from affordable to luxury.
- Trusted brands: Where we weren't able to personally test any of the advent calendars in the list, I've taken into consideration the brands that are trusted by the HELLO! team.
The best food advent calendars to shop for 2024
Fortnum & Mason Feasting Advent Calendar
© Fortnum & Mason- Number of doors: 25
- Contents: Gourmet foods, including classic teas, biscuits, chocolate, confectionery, preserves and condiments.
- Storage: In a cool dry place, refrigerate once open
- Dimensions: 40 x 39 x 16cm
If money is no object, then this is the one for true bon vivants. There really is no better way to countdown to Christmas than with a luxury food advent calendar from Fortnum & Mason each day, up until and including 25 December. There is a bit of everything, from tea and coffee to confectionary and biscuits, preserves and condiments, with highlights including Chocolate Chestnut Liqueur, Orange-Infused Olive Oil and a quarter Champagne Bottle. Heavenly!
The Cartwright & Butler Advent Calendar 2024
© Cartwright & Butler- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: Best-selling Cartwright & Butler treats including sweet and savoury biscuits, preserves, hot drinks, cakes and confectionery
- Storage: In a cool dry place
This is one for food fans who want to indulge in the run-up to Christmas. The beautifully illustrated, gigantic advent calendar contains 24 doors of Cartwright & Butler’s bestselling gourmet treats, and the full list of products is truly mouth-watering. We don’t want to spoil the surprise but some of the highlights include Winter Spiced Orange and Cranberry Shortbread Rounds, Chilli & Garlic Seeded flatbread crackers and the most delicious Christmas Pudding.
LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW - Liquorice Advent Calendar 2024
© LAKRIDS BY BÜLOW- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: Chocolate covered gourmet Danish liquorice
- Storage: In a cool dry place
I can personally confirm that this advent calendar - which contains 24 gourmet Danish liquorice treats - is scrumptious! I can’t recommend it enough to the liquorice fans out there. If you struggle with gluten intolerance then this is a great food advent calendar option - it’s made with 100% gluten-free liquorice cooked with rice flour. The box itself - which is inspired by the long-standing Danish tradition of weaving Christmas hearts - is beautiful and you get plenty for your money. There are two chocolate-coated liquorice balls in a variety of flavours behind each door, plus an original liquorice stick on one of the days and an extra treat on Christmas Eve.
Love Cocoa Luxury Truffle Advent Calendar
© Love Cocoa- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: Gourmet chocolate truffles
- Storage: In a cool dry place
- Dimensions: A3 sized
Truffle is without a doubt, my fave flavour so you can bet I’m adding this food advent calendar to basket! Love Cocoa, the brand founded by James Cadbury - the great-great-grandson of the OG Mr Cadbury - have released a Luxury Truffle Calendar for 2024. There are 23 luxury chocolate truffles (including Salted Caramel and Spiced Gingerbread) and a mini choccy bar to count down to Christmas 2024. As well as being totally delicious, this food advent calendar ticks all the eco boxes - it’s made with 100% plastic-free packaging. Plus Love Cocoa works with Eden Reforestation Projects, with the aim of planting over 200,000 trees each and every year (they’re up to 1.6 million trees and counting!)
Illchester Cheese Advent Calendar and Hampton Chutney Hamper Set
© Illchester Cheese / Hampton Chutney- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: 24 sticks of delicious British cheese (including Applewood Vintage and Ilchester Red Leicester) and six pots of Hampton Chutney of different flavours including Chunky Onion and Sweet ‘n Spicy Tomato
- Storage: In the fridge
Welcome to cheese heaven! This food advent calendar from Ilchester features 24 individually wrapped mini cheeses in mouth-watering flavours including Jarlsberg, Applewood, Mexicana and even Wensleydale and Gingerbread! It's made to fit perfectly in your fridge door. Plus with this set you have the added extra of six jars of mouth-watering chutney to enhance the cheese countdown. Flavours include Onion Chutney and Poting Shed Pickle. Yum!
Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Mega Advent Calendar 2024
- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: 24 bags of delicious Snaffling Pig pork crackling in six different flavours - Pigs In Blankets, Low & Slow BBQ, Maple, Black Pepper & Sea Salt, Salt & Vinegar and Perfectly Salted.
Behind each of the 24 windows in this foodie advent calendar, you’ll find a mini bag of deliciously flavoured pork scratchings – from Perfectly Salted to Marvellous Maple and even Pigs in Blankets. All so tangy and moreish – possibly the winner of the 'advent calendar we never knew existed but want immediately’ award.
Joe & Seph’s Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar
- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: 24 bags of gourmet popcorn in 19 different flavours including Bannofee Pie and Caramel and Belgian Chocolate.
- Storage: In a cool dry place
Popcorn never tasted so good, seriously. Joe & Seph’s food advent calender offering contains 24 bags of their award-winning popcorn in 19 different flavours, with highlights including Banoffee Pie, Caramel & White Chocolate and Toffee Apple and Cinamon. Oh, and they save the best till last – the milk chocolate popcorn bites are the treat behind door 24. This calendar is suitable fr vegans and vegetarians and gluten free.
The Naked Marshmallow Co. Gourmet Advent Calendar
© The Naked Marshmallow Co.- Number of doors: 25
- Contents: Gourmet marshmallows in 12 different seasona flavours including Cookies & Cream and Honeycomb and Chocolate
- Storage: In a cool dry place
The Naked Marshmallow Co's food advent calendar is back with 25 hand-made marshmallows to enjoy. There are 12 different flavours, including Vanilla Bean, Candy Floss and Cookies & Cream. There’s an extra treat on Christmas day – a milk chocolate enrobed vanilla marshmallow bar made using yummy Belgian milk chocolate.
Swizzels Sweets Gifts Advent Calendar
- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: A selection of retro sweets
- Storage: In a cool dry place
- Dimensions: 38.6 x 31.6 x 6.6 cm
This bargainous sweets advent calendar is packed with some of the classics you will no doubt remember from your childhood. Refreshers, Drumstick Squashies, Parma Violets, Fizzlers, Love hearts, Drumsticks... ring any bells?
Pringles Crisps Advent Calendar 2024 - 12 Days of Christmas Advent
- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: 12 mini tubs of Pringles in four differnt flavours - Salt & Vinegar, Original, Texas BBQ and Sour cream
- Storage: In a cool dry place
- Dimensions: 43.4 x 29.2 x 8.5 cm
Yes, you can even get a crisps advent calendar! Pringles have thrown its hat into the ring with its 12-day advent calendar for savoury fans, there are four different flavours to open, with a different tub each day.
Walkers Shortbread Advent Calendar
- Number of doors: 24
- Contents: Pure butter shortbread fingers, mini shortbread rounds and mini chocolate chip shortbread.
- Storage: In a cool dry place
If you're a biscuit lover, you need the Walkers advent calendar. Most people might think of the crisps but the biscuit brand started baking its crumbly shortbread in the Speyside village of Aberlour back in 1898.
Their tartan-printed food advent calendar is filled with their pure butter shortbread fingers, min shortbread rounds and mini chocolate chip shortbread. Perfect for enjoying with the morning cuppa.
