Monito Monita Ideas From Marks & Spencer That Aren’t Their Chocolate Digestives

(SPOT.ph) It's long been one of Filipinos' many inside jokes about Christmas that we commonly give and receive the same gifts every holiday season. One of those gifts is Marks & Spencer's Milk Chocolate Digestives. Not that we or anyone's complaining—those chocolate-covered biscuits rightfully deserve the hype.

But in the interest of being unpredictable this Christmas, Marks & Spencer has always had other food items for Monito Monita beyond the Milk Chocolate or the Dark Chocolate Digestives. Again, not that we wouldn't want to find it under our Christmas tree or stuffed in our Christmas stocking—but we wouldn't mind receiving fun Marks & Spencer noms this Christmas too.

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Here are (multi-purpose!) Marks & Spencer food items to give as a Christmas exchange gift:

Christmas Village Tin Cans: Hot Chocolate Light Up House and Luxury Gold Tea Light Up House

We're sure you know at least one friend or relative who decorates for Christmas as soon as September begins. If you drew their name for a Christmas exchange gift, these gorgeous metal tin cans in the shape of houses and Christmas trees are surprisingly affordable if you have a P1,000 budget. Plus, it's small enough that it isn't space-consuming, a thing to consider for condo dwellers. There's the Hot Chocolate Light Up House (P795) which is filled with easy-to-mix hot chocolate to provide you warmth during the -Ber months, and then there's the Luxury Gold Tea Light Up House (P795) which is stuffed with forty pieces of traditional tea bags.

Four In A Row

Something fun that you can bond over with your co-sweet tooths is the Four In A Row( P1,495). This is a chocolate-filled game with the objective of putting four discs (made with Swiss milk chocolate) of the same color in a row, horizontally or vertically, in the provided red cardboard box.

Christmas Cars

If you're seeing the pattern now, Marks & Spencer's Christmas items are mostly multipurpose. Such is the case in the Milk Chocolate Cars (P795) which you can display and play with—yup, the wheels move!—before unwrapping to eat. These are solid milk chocolates in the shape of a Volkswagen Beetle with a Christmas tree lugged on top. 

Gingerbread Musical House

Another item worth being displayed (and a great conversation starter) is the Gingerbread Musical House (P995). This tin can in the shape of a gingerbread house comes filled with spicy, buttery gingerbread biscuits that you can munch on while waiting for Noche Buena or Media Noche. Just turn the metal knob on the gingerbread house's roof for it to play the music.

The Original Verry Merry Munch

Know someone who needs to replace their dusty, rusty old Danish cookie tin can-sewing kit? The Original Verry Merry Munch (P1,295) is the festive, colorful upgrade once you've completely annihilated all its sweet and salty snacks inside. This tin can has milk chocolate-coated salted peanuts, milk and white chocolate-coated popcorn, salted pretzels, sugar-coated milk chocolate, sugar-coated milk chocolate peanuts, almonds in salted caramel coating, and dark chocolate-coated salted pretzels. 

Percy Express Tin

For the anik-anik girls and guys who love collecting the cutest containers, the Percy Express Tin (P795) is a train-shaped tin can with a design of Percy Pig, a Marks & Spencer brand character, maneuvering the bright red locomotive. When you open the tin, there are Percy pennies—similar to your gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins—which are these pink chocolate coins wrapped in a Percy-branded metallic pink foil.

All these fun, cute, or interactive Marks & Spencer Christmas items are available at their stores across Metro Manila. As we all know how bad the Christmas rush tends to get, it would be best to shop before the Christmas rush turns into Christmas chaos.

See list of Marks & Spencer branches. For more information, visit Marks & Spencer's website.

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