12 best advent calendars for foodies – from gourmet cheese, crisps, chilli and marshmallows

If money is no object, then this is the one for true gourmands. There really is no better way to countdown to Christmas than with a luxury food advent calendar from Fortnum & Mason each day, up until and including 25 December. There is a bit of everything, from tea and coffee to confectionary and biscuits, preserves and condiments, with highlights including Pistachio & Clotted Cream Biscuits, Cognac Butter and a quarter Champagne Bottle. Heavenly!

Welcome to cheese heaven! This food advent calendar from Ilchester features 24 individually wrapped mini cheeses in mouth-watering flavours including Jarlsberg, Applewood, Mexicana and even Wensleydale and Gingerbread! It's made to fit perfectly in your fridge door.

Behind each of the 24 windows in this foodie advent calendar, you’ll find a mini bag of deliciously flavoured pork scratchings – from Perfectly Salted to Marvellous Maple and even Pigs in Blankets. All so tangy and moreish – possibly the winner of the 'advent calendar we never knew existed but want immediately’ award.

Do you know someone who likes it hot when it comes to their food and can’t get enough of chilli? This food advent calendar comes with 24 sachets of hot sauce, from mild to extra fiery, so it's definitely one to spice up December.

This is an advent calendar for those who love luxury confectionery. You get 24 sweet delights featuring gourmet Scandinavian licorice. With a sleek new design, inspired by the long-standing Danish tradition of weaving Christmas hearts., this is a stylish and delicious advent calendar for foodies. It’s back with improved packaging too -  it’s been reduced to just a few grams of plastic and the packaging is made of 75% recycled, FSC-certified gray cardboard.

Popcorn never tasted so good, seriously. Joe & Seph’s food advent calender offering contains 24 bags of their award-winning popcorn in 19 different flavours, with highlights including Banoffee Pie, Caramel & White Chocolate and Toffee Apple and Cinamon. Oh, and they save the best till last – the milk chocolate popcorn bites are the treat behind door 24.

The gourmet marshmallow advent calendar is back with 25 hand-made marshmallows to enjoy. There are 12 different flavours, including Vanilla Bean, Candy Floss and Cookies & Cream. There’s an extra treat on Christmas day – a milk chocolate enrobed vanilla marshmallow bar made using yummy Belgian milk chocolate.

Whether you're a spice connoisseur or want to be introduced to new flavours, the Just Spices advent calendar is the perfect way to level up your meals. There are 23 mini spice sachets included with a full-size version on Christmas Eve, with a variety of flavours for breakfast, lunch and dinner. A great way to inspire new meals, some of the flavours include avocado topping to banana bread seasoning and more.

If you're a fan of preserves then you'll be in heaven with this food advent calendar. The Mrs Bridges Preserves calendar comes with 24 preserves in a range of unique flavours, from pink grapefruit to lemon curd and pineapple and ginger. Whether you're spreading on your toast or an afternoon scone, the preserves are the perfect daily treat - with an extra special champagne surprise on Christmas Eve.

This beautiful Santa illustration calendar comes jam-packed with marzipan, truffles, pralines, and more often than not has more than one treat per window! Niederegger marzipan is made in Germany, from 100% finest marzipan paste, made using traditional roasting cauldrons and with production supervised by a master confectioner, so it's definitely an advent calendar for foodies.

Pip & Nut's advent calendar is filled with 24 individually wrapped (full-size) dark chocolate nut butter cups. As well as being vegan and sustainably sourced, they contain no palm oil or gluten and the chocolate isof the ethical single-origin type, sourced from family-run Luker Chocolate in Colombia.

This one really is for the foodies! If you're a cheese lover looking to treat yourself throughout December (why not?) then this Artisan cheese advent calendar is the one. Coming in three separate parcels throughout the month to ensure the freshest quality, the set comes with 24 individually hand-cut and wrapped cheeses to enjoy.

This bargainous sweets advent calendar is packed with some of the classics you will no doubt remember from your childhood. Refreshers, Drumstick Squashies, Parma Violets, Fizzlers, Love hearts, Drumsticks... ring any bells?

Yes, you can even get a crisps advent calendar! Pringles have thrown its hat into the ring with its 12-day advent calendar for savoury fans, there are four different flavours to open, with a different tub each day.

If you're a biscuit lover, you need the Walkers advent calendar. Filled with pure butter shortbread fingers, you can sit back and enjoy a cuppa and a biscuit as you count down to the big day.