These are the best advent calendars for foodies
Let’s use the next two weeks to get the whole house ready for Christmas, since we’re at home all evening anyway. With this advent calendar, every foodie will get into the holiday spirit, and those Christmas pounds will pile on in no time too.
Tea every day
One, two cups of tea, and a different flavor every day. Sustainability fanatics can opt for Pukka tea or Yoghi tea—with those profound little sayings on the labels. Daily Teacup, Lipton and even Pickwick have an advent calendar with tea.
Chocolate calendar
Christmas and chocolate go together like Bassie and Adriaan, Dolly and Kenny, or a frikandel and special sauce. So brace yourself: M&M’s isn’t the only brand with an advent calendar featuring special editions of M&M’s, including ones with puffed rice and peanut butter. Milka is no less, with a kitschy calendar full of mini chocolates. Lindt? Check. Tony Chocolonely? Of course, also. December is a good time of year for chocolate lovers!
MyMuesli
Is Santa trying to tell you something if you get this calendar in your shoe? Or are these your own good resolutions for the end of the year? With this advent calendar from MyMuesli you eat a different healthy breakfast every morning. Porridge, granola, dark chocolate, butterballs: it’s all in there.
Beer calendar
An advent calendar with beer? Yes, yes, at our house they simply call that a crate: counting down to Christmas with a bottle a day, and then a nice little side table as a gift on the Christmas days… No, there are also real beer advent calendars, with a specialty beer every day. The annual returning hit is the one from Beerwulf. It contains beers from 24 different brewers and in more than 12 different styles. Alongside a number of favorites and classics, this year you’ll also count down with new beers you’re guaranteed not to have tasted before. And ho ho ho, it’s on sale now too. Order your beer calendar here.
Pringles
A new little bag of chips for two weeks—surely that works in any season? But at Christmas there’s the Pringles advent calendar, with 25 small tubes of Pringles. No limited editions or exotic flavors, just the most popular flavors of recent years in a cardboard box. Is it still a surprise then? Yes, you never know which flavor you’ll get today. And you also have no idea what the scale will say on December 25 if you wolf down a tube of chips every day.
Wine calendar
Starting every morning by opening a new compartment of your advent calendar—that’s a good idea. Aldi is selling the popular wine advent calendar again this year (as well as one with beer!); behind each compartment is a small bottle of wine—how cozy does that sound? The Wijnbeurs calendar promises 25 glasses of wine, because each tube contains 100 ml. There are tasting notes for each wine, so you’ll know what you’re tasting.
Coffee calendar
A barista at your door every day to make the perfect coffee? No, not that, but a calendar with 25 compartments, each containing a coffee pod from L’Or. A delicious way to start your day! And add one of those little chocolate treats from Lindt or Tony’s, and let the holiday season begin.
