Sweet Gift Ideas: The Present Nobody Returns, for Every Budget and Occasion

Nobody has ever returned a box of sweets.

Nobody has asked for the receipt, quietly passed them on to a neighbour, or left them in a drawer until the following Christmas. Sweets are the one present that gets opened straight away, handed round the room and finished by Sunday. They suit every budget and every kind of person, and the only skill involved is matching the right sweets, in the right packaging, to the right person.

That's the part we can help with.

Start with your budget

The packaging does the wrapping for you, so pick a size first.

• Under £5: Gift Cans. A can of sweets with a window on the front, so the colour shows before it's even opened. The easy upgrade for a party bag, a teacher or a Secret Santa.
• Under £10: Birthday Shells and Gift Tins. A Shell is five favourites in packaging that already looks like a party: the card that gets eaten. A Tin is seven sweets in a keepsake tin that will still be in use long after the sweets have gone.
• Under £20: Birthday Pouches and Just Because Boxes. The sweet spot. A big pouch for the birthday, or favourites set out in a gift box for no reason at all.
• Under £30: Vault Boxes. Our biggest box, filled to the lid, for the birthdays and thank yous that need more than a pouch.
• The showstopper: Congratulations Jars. A whole jar of sweets, the kind you used to point at in the sweet shop, to say well done properly.

Then pick the mix

Most of our gifts come in four mixes, so you can match the sweets to the person:

• Gummy for anyone whose tastes you have to guess. Giant strawberries, twin cherries, jelly snakes and turtles. Everyone likes a gummy.
• Fizzy for the sour fans, the teenagers, and anyone who likes a sweet with a bit of attitude.
• Chocolate for the ones who'd happily be left alone with a box of chocolate mice.
• Marshmallow for soft, light and sweet.

Buying for someone with dietary needs? There are boxes made for it: the Vegan Vault, the Halal Vault and the Sugar Free Thinking of You Vault. Full ingredients and allergens are on every product page, and our allergens and dietary page has the detail.

A gift for every occasion

Birthdays

The birthday range comes in four mixes and three sizes: a Shell, a Pouch and a full Vault. For a big birthday, the Birthday bundle pairs a Birthday Vault of Chewylicious, twenty chewy favourites in a 2kg box, with a Candy Can of our Bubblegum Mix. One big box to open now, one can to hide for later.

Thinking of you

For the days when a text isn't enough. Our Thinking of You Vaults come in eight mixes, from chocolate and fizzy to retro, chewy, toffee and sugar free. The retro one is twenty old favourites: the corner shop paper bag, scaled up until it needs a lid.

Congratulations

New job, new house, passed first time. Say well done with something better than a card: a Congratulations Jar in chocolate, fizzy, gummy or marshmallow.

Get well soon

Grapes are a kind thought, but nobody has ever been cheered up by a grape. The Get Well Soon bundle is three of our mixes picked to lift a flat day.

Just because

The best presents turn up on an ordinary Tuesday. A Just Because Box says hello, sorry, thanks, or nothing in particular.

Halloween and Christmas

The Halloween range has Dracula teeth, Skull Crushers and a ready made Halloween Mix for the trick or treat bowl, and the Christmas range has festive gifts, pouches and sweets for the stocking.

For the person who's impossible to buy for

• The one who has everything: Full Vault, our showpiece. A 2kg Vault Box of gummies plus pouches of Fizzy Shockwave, The Frost Bite and The Glow Up. Four mixes, nearly three kilos.
• The nostalgic one: The Time Capsule, twenty five corner shop classics in one big glass jar, from Black Jacks and Flying Saucers to Fried Eggs and Wine Gums.
• The sour fan: Sour Sentence, four pouches from the sharp end of our shelves.
• The American candy fan: Red, White & Chew, a haul of Mike and Ike, Laffy Taffy, Tootsie Rolls and Nerds.
• The one who has tried everything: our freeze dried mixes. Familiar sweets, puffed up until they crunch instead of chew.
• Someone who has never tried us: First Taste, a cup of our Best Seller Mix and a bucket of our Fizzy Mix. A full kilo of the sweets people reorder.

Sending it

Every order is hand mixed, weighed and sealed by our own team, never dropshipped. Order before 2pm Monday to Friday and we'll dispatch it the same day. Standard delivery usually takes 2 to 3 working days from dispatch, and it's free on orders over £50. The details are on our delivery page.

The only risk is being asked for the same thing again next year.

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