The Best Food Advent Calendars For 2024
In this article:
- Cheesegeek Cheese Advent Calendar
- Fortnum & Mason Feasting Advent Calendar
- The Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Advent Calendar
- Joe & Seph’s Giant Popcorn Advent Calendar
- The Naked Marshmallow Co Gourmet Advent Calendar
- Numskull Official SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog Collectable Advent Calendar
- Grenade Protein Bar Advent Calendar
- Pringles Advent Calendar 12 Days Crisps Countdown to Christmas
- Ilchester Cheese Advent Calendar
Okay, chocolate. We get it. But we’re over you now. Wouldn’t it be great if other foods we love were available in 24 little doses, holding our hands in the countdown to Christmas? Thankfully, there’s plenty of choice on this front.
You might have heard of the cheese advent calendar but there’s others too, including marshmallows, biscuits, crisps and other foodie delicacies. All without a chocolate truffle in sight.
We’d searched the pantry looking for the best foodie advent calendars around for Christmas 2024. From the gourmet selections to the bizarre, we’ve selected our favourites. Perfect as the best Christmas gift for festive foodies, these calendars contain a variety of indulgent treats to see them through the best month of the year.
The big department stores and luxury grocers often put together large advent calendars stuffed to the brim with tipples, condiments, spices, jams, and other Christmas foods. These are ideal for those that love to indulge this December.
See here for tea, coffee or hot chocolate advent calendars, here for boozy beer and gin advent calendars, and here for fabulous chocolate advent calendars.
Cheesegeek Cheese Advent Calendar
RRP: £150.00 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now
Best for: Die hard cheese fans. With huge portions of cheeses and plenty of crackers and condiments, there’s enough here for two people.
Not one advent calendar but technically three (or at least three deliveries) ensuring freshness. It’s so fresh, the boxes are prepared on the day of despatch and are speedily shipped. They ship with Cheesegeek’s 48-hour freshness guarantee.
This is the ultimate foodie advent calendar for cheese addicts. Each day you’ll discover a new type of cheese (a super secret selection to increase the suspense). Each of the three delivery boxes contains Peter’s Yard crackers, a honey and a condiment.
The cheese boxes are designed to fit comfortably in your fridge and each contain eight doors / windows, so you still get the thrill of opening an advent calendar, just with cheese instead of chocolate.
Fortnum & Mason Feasting Advent Calendar
RRP: £200.00 | | 25 doors / windows | Shop now
Best for: Those that appreciate the finer things in life.
Work your way through Fortnum’s shelves of luxury treats in this Feasting Advent Calendar. Inside, there’s 25 items, from classic teas, biscuits, chocolate and confectionery to preserves, condiments and festive tipples.
There’s something for everyone, with boozy treats, sweet snacks, savoury items and even some spices to make your own mulled wine at home. All the items have been chosen by Fortnum’s expert buyers for their quality and provenance.
It’s all presented in a beautiful reusable Advent Calendar that you can refill next year. With more treats from Fortnum’s, of course!
The drawers inside vary in size, so some days you’ll get a smaller treat and on others, namely Christmas Day, you’ll get a larger indulgence. There’s even a Christmas Pudding buried in there somewhere!
The Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Advent Calendar
RRP: £21.95 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now
Best for: Fans of moreish pork scratchings.
Get ready to pig out on one of the more unusual alternative advent calendars this year! The Snaffling Pig Pork Crackling Advent Calendar serves up a savoury twist. Behind each window, you will discover 24 mini 5g bags of flavoured pork crackling. These light and crispy delights may not be festive in shape, but score points on the wackiness scale.
Inside, you’ll find an assortment of salted, black pepper, BBQ, maple, salt and vinegar, and the limited edition Pigs In Blankets (a triple-pork threat).
Joe & Seph’s Giant Popcorn Advent Calendar
RRP: £25.00 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now°
Best for: Popcorn-munching addicts.
Unwrap the magic of this indulgent calendar, featuring award-winning popcorn. It’s the perfect alternative to a traditional advent calendar, offering you a scrumptious journey through 24 days of popcorn delights.
Open the calendar like a giant storybook and step into a snowy popcorn kitchen scene, where the real treasures lie. Inside, you’ll discover 24 treat bags (7g) that include unique flavours, ranging from the irresistible milk chocolate popcorn bites to the classic salted caramel and the decadent caramel and white chocolate.
Now, the real challenge: can you resist the temptation to open all the windows at once? Trust us; it’s harder than it sounds!
The Naked Marshmallow Co Gourmet Advent Calendar
RRP: £17.00 | | 25 doors / windows | Shop now°
Best for: Lovers of squishy, pillowy bites of heaven.
Say ‘nom’ to The Naked Marshmallow Co Gourmet Advent Calendar, where every day in December promises a spectacularly gooey surprise. Trade out your cheap advent calendar chocolate for these delectable cubes of pillowy heaven.
This Advent Calendar is a treasure trove of 25 gourmet marshmallows in 12 irresistible flavours. Each day, you’ll unbox a new marshmallow to savour while enjoying the festive joke or fun fact tucked behind the cardboard window.
Sadly not suitable for vegetarians or vegans, each marshmallow weighs approximately 13g.
Numskull Official SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog Collectable Advent Calendar
RRP: £59.99 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now°
Best for: People who can remember playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the original SEGA Megadrive!
Count down the days until Christmas with Numskull’s Sonic the Hedgehog Countdown Character calendar. This isn’t your average run-of-the-mill advent calendar; it’s an adventure into the thrilling world of everybody’s favourite blue hedgehog.
Unbox a new component in this official SEGA product as you zip through December, building up a high-quality figurine across 24 days.
By Christmas Eve, you’ll have your model complete and ready to be showcased as a treasured collectible or gifted to a fellow Sonic the Hedgehog enthusiast. The final figurine captures the essence of Sonic the Hedgehog in his element, ripping it up on the slopes with his trusty snowboard – cool, cheeky and fun-loving.
See the Numskull Official SEGA Sonic the Hedgehog Collectable Advent Calendar°
Grenade Protein Bar Advent Calendar
RRP: £55.00 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now
Best for: Gym bunnies, fitness fanatics, or anyone looking to add more protein to their diet.
Fill your boots with protein-rich snacks instead of chocolate this December courtesy of Grenade’s Protein Bar Advent Calendar (okay, there’s a thin layer of chocolate coating but it’s the protein-rich dough base that’s the real star here).
Whether you are trying to build muscle or just looking for an additional source of protein in your diet, this can be a fun way to do it while counting down to Christmas. Inside is an assortment of 24 of Grenade’s protein bars. And if you’re only just starting your research into sources of protein, this can be a great introduction to Grenade’s funky bars.
Pringles Advent Calendar 12 Days Crisps Countdown to Christmas
RRP: £24.99 | | 12 doors / windows | Shop now°
Best for: Anyone who can’t stop once they pop!
There’s no greater advent calendar for a Pringles addict than one dedicated to their favourite crisp. And who knows, they might be able to reach their hand into these 12 mini cans!
This calendar won’t see you through the 24 / 25 days of December but instead celebrates the 12 days of Christmas, in crisp form. You’ll get three cans of each of the four flavours (original ready salted, salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion, and barbecue).
It’s perhaps one of the greatest crisp-based advent calendars, but that might be because there’s really not many of them.
See the Pringles Advent Calendar 12 Days Crisps Countdown to Christmas°
Ilchester Cheese Advent Calendar
RRP: £9.00 | | 24 doors / windows | Shop now°
Best for: Lovers of Applewood, Mexicana and Ilchester cheeses
Unbox 24 individually-wrapped cheeses from the Ilchester range each day in the lead-up to Christmas. This advent calendar – which needs to be refrigerated – contains 24 taster portions (15g) of cheese.
The calendar includes nine varieties of cheese: Ilchester Cheddar with Apple, Onion and Sage; smokey Applewood; Applewood Vintage Aged for 12 months; Ilchester Mature Cheddar; Ilchester Vintage Cheddar; Ilchester Double Gloucester; Ilchester Red Leicester; Ilchester Aged Red Leicester, and spicy Mexicana.
While we’d love to see much larger portions, the smaller pack size keep this cheese advent calendar affordable. The packaging has also been created so that it can be torn in half mid-way through December to save fridge space as you near Christmas.
Note: Prices were correct when last checked but may have since changed. Design and specifications can change without notice, so it’s best to check with the stockist for the latest prices, specifications, and availability.