MerrilyMe

When I'm not being Merry Raymond of Patch of Puddles, I'm writing as MerrilyMe. Unless I'm selling toys. Or parenting.

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How not to eat a large box of chocolates.

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You might have seen these pop up on my instagram feed?

Hotel Chocolat very kindly sent them too me to review. I was very grateful (very hormonal, very over tired and so VERY grateful!)

The children were thrilled. They really like chocolate. Very much.

But.

Erm….

I like it more.

And I was VERY hormonal.

So I ate them. Quite a lot of them. With Max's help and I did save four for the girls.

But… Well, it was a Mother's Day selection.

For mothers.

With blueberry chocolates and some salted pralines and an extremely nice champagne one.

Not really child chocolate. Would have been a shame to waste them on minors.

UNFORTUNATELY…

Two of the girls have instagram accounts.

And so I got busted.

Big time.

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…

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I even ate the four I saved.

And told Facebook.

Oops.

 

Ps. You absolutely HAVE TO TRY THE LEMON ONE.

I was sent these chocolates free for review. All social media bloopers in regards to my daughters lost innocence about their mother and her sweetie greed were my own. As are my views.

 

Hotel Chocolat competition and review

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Last week we were very excited by the arrival of a review product from Hotel Chocolat. We don’t often get food goodies and this was very, very big news in the house.

We had to have an unboxing 😉

We were sent a Rather Large Cracker which had a variety of entertaining things in it; excellent quality hats for one…

And some really terrible jokes too.

Most of all though, it had little packets of extremely lovely chocolates. I hadn’t had their chops before; the girls blagged samples while in Cambridge the week before but it was new to me. Ooooh so yummy. Mulled wine chocs! Eton Mess chocs! Heaven! Champagne chocs! Delicious! And there was a penguin shaped one… We gave it to Josie. Of course.

Errr… Yes, I liked them very much. I let the children have some too. And then sent them to bed. Ahem.

This cracker is, of course, designed to be a party piece. It really does go bang (we did comedy cracker pulling) and it was the source of much merriment. It would look amazing on a big table for a family christmas and the chocolate is good enough to bring ooooh and aaaaahs. If you do big parties, I definitely recommend it 🙂

If you would like to win one, Hotel Chocolat have offered a second cracker to one of my readers. Leave a comment on this post and I will pick one winner randomly on the 28th November. You can leave a fresh comment for every social media share you do via Twitter, Facebook or Pinterest. Comp will close at midnight on the 27th Novemember. Hotel Chocolat are responsible for providing the prize. UK entries only.

We had a lot of family fun with this. Thank you to Hotel Chocolat for the free sample and for providing a competition prize. All views are my own. I did not miscounted any chocolates and give my children less than they deserved. Definitely.