The Best Vegan Advent Calendars to Buy in the UK (2025 Edition)
For many people, picking the best vegan advent calendar is an essential component of the festive period. Whether you’re after advent calendars with dairy-free chocolate, sweets, or non-edible treats, there’s something for everyone in 2025.
Advent calendars are a beloved festive tradition dating back to 19th-century Germany, where cardboard calendars were first used to count down the days leading up to Christmas. The first chocolate advent calendar was introduced in 1958, and they have since gained immense popularity worldwide. Today, vegan advent calendars are easily found on the high street – if you know where to look.
Why Choose a Vegan Advent Calendar in 2025?
Buying chocolate advent calendars that contain a cow’s mammary secretions means paying for pain, suffering, and death. Cows used in the dairy industry are forcibly impregnated and have their babies dragged from them hours after birth. They’re then milked repeatedly until they are eventually slaughtered. The dairy industry is also environmentally destructive, responsible for at least four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Choosing a vegan advent calendar is not only a cruelty-free and sustainable choice, but a delicious one, too! Many companies offer animal-free chocolate, sweets, and gift advent calendars. From Hotel Chocolat and Nomo to Candy Kittens and The Body Shop, here are the best vegan advent calendars in 2025.
Top Dairy-Free Chocolate Advent Calendars
Chocolate advent calendars are the most popular choice in the UK – and many on the market are completely free from dairy. Here are our picks of the best.
Nomo Advent Calendar
For dairy-free chocolate fans, Nomo has achieved icon status. It’s no surprise, then, that its annual advent calendar line-up is hugely popular. This year, Nomo is offering two advent calendars: The classic version offers small chocolate drops, while The Ultimate Advent Calendar comes complete with mini chocolate bars in every window.
Hotel Chocolat Vegan Advent Calendar
Hotel Chocolat offers a delightful vegan festive range including the Up To Snow Good Advent Calendar, which features penguin and snowmen characters made with the luxury chocolate purveyor’s famous hazelnut milk. If you want to size up, you can opt for the 45% Nutmilk Chocolate Calendar, which offers larger Christmas pieces with 45% cacao alongside nut milk.
Mummy Meegz Advent Calendar
Mummy Meegz, a dairy-free brand renowned for its Mini Eggs, also offers oat milk-based Choccy Balls, which can be found in its 2025 vegan advent calendar. The Choccy Balls feature a silky truffle centre with a smooth chocolate filling, and it’ll take all the willpower you have not to eat them all in one go.
Chococo Plant-Based Advent Calendar
New for 2025, Chococo’s Plant-based Advent Calendar is filled with an array of beautifully designed and decorated dark and oat milk chocolates that taste just as good as they look. You’ll find everything from whiskey-infused Colombian oat milk chocolate to dark chocolate ganache with a fiery chilli jam. It’s a great option if you’re in the market for something a bit more upscale.
Ombar Advent Calendar
Ombar is a popular dairy-free chocolate company that’s prized for its diverse range of flavoured chocolate treats. Its Super Chocolate Advent Calendar comes complete with mini versions of some of its most popular chocolate bars behind each window. As well as Pistachio, Raspberry and Coconut, and Hazelnut Truffle flavours, you can find classic Coco Mylk and its iconic Blonde bar – inspired by the now-discontinued Caramac bar from Nestlé.
Kakoa Vegan Advent Calendar
The aptly named Iconic Vegan Chocolate Advent Calendar by Kakoa offers an enticing range of flavoured dairy-free chocolates behind each window. As well as classics like Cookies and Cream, Salted Caramel, and Turkish Delight, you’ll also find more surprising flavours like Pretzel, Champagne, and even the bright green (and oddly realistic-looking) Truffle Sprout.
HiP Advent Calendar
HiP is known for its tasty oat milk chocolates, and its 2025 Vegan Chocolate Advent Calendar features 24 of these behind each window. Its fun packaging is perfect for kids and adults alike, and flavours include Creamy Original, Gingerbread, Salted Caramel, and Orange.
Montezuma Dairy-Free Advent Calendar
If dark chocolate is your thing, Montezuma has you covered. Behind each window on the Organic Dark Chocolate Advent Calendar is a rich, vegan dark chocolate made with cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla extract – and all ingredients are organic.
Monty Bojangles Vegan Advent Calendar
There’s nothing like an indulgent chocolate truffle, and with the Monty Bojangles Curiously Moreish Vegan Truffle Advent Calendar, you can have one every day in December! Flavours include Choccy Scoffy, Cookie Moon, Orange Angelical, Flutter Scotch, Popcorn Carousel, and Berry Bubbly.
Plamil So Free Advent Calendar
At just £6.95 (at the time of writing), the Plamil So Free White Advent Calendar is the most affordable option on this list. It’s made with delicious vegan white chocolate and – due to its price – is a great option for large families with lots of kids to treat.
Non-Chocolate Vegan Advent Calendars
If chocolate isn’t your thing, there are loads of other edible advent calendars that taste amazing while being completely animal-free. Here are some of your best options.
Candy Kittens Advent Calendar
Candy Kittens is an all-vegan sweet company that ditched gelatin in 2018. Now, every single one of its hugely popular treats is plant-based – including its Advent Calendar.
Chilli Lovers Advent Calendar
Spice up your festive season with this fiery Chilli Lovers Advent Calendar featuring 24 days’ worth of vegan chilli sauces. Options include cayenne pepper, sriracha, chipotle, scotch bonnet, and the terrifying-sounding “scorpion”. It’s not for everyone, but it could seriously delight any spice lovers in your life.
Popcorn Shed Advent Calendar
If popcorn is your preference, the Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar from Popcorn Shed, which features incredible flavours like Butterscotch, Cherry Pie, Choc ‘N’ Roll, Christmas Pudding, and Gingerbread – each one completely plant-based.
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar
Tea fans, this one’s for you! Bird & Blend has unveiled its 2025 Advent Calendar – and it’s once again jam-packed full of wholesome and comforting flavours of plastic-free teabags. It’s available in both regular and caffeine-free varieties, featuring black teas, herbal infusions, fruit infusions, green teas, and more.
The Best Vegan Beauty Advent Calendars for 2025
Beauty advent calendars have been skyrocketing in popularity over the last few years – but be sure to check that they are vegan and animal-test-free. Some beauty advent calendars contain animal-derived ingredients, and others come from brands that still test on animals. Thankfully, more brands are ditching animal testing and animal-derived ingredients – so here are our picks of the best vegan and cruelty-free advent calendars.
Baylis & Harding Advent Calendar
This Book of 24 Bathing Beauty Treats advent calendar from Baylis and Harding is the ultimate gift for pampering. It features some of the brand’s most beloved bath and body products in vegan scents like Sweet Mandarin and Grapefruit, Jojoba, Vanilla and Almond Oil, and Midnight Cherry.
LUSH Advent Calendar
LUSH is renowned for its gorgeous selection of vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics, and its 2025 Advent Calendar will have you feeling (and smelling) amazing all December. It’s not cheap – £205 at the time of writing – but includes some of its most beloved products. Bath bombs, soaps, shower gels, and candles can be found behind each of its 25 doors.
Technic Advent Calendar
The Technic Beauty Box Cosmetic Advent Calendar features 24 days of vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics. You’ll find brow gel, eyeshadow, blusher, and more, all wrapped up in festive boxes.
The Body Shop Advent Calendar
The iconic beauty chain The Body Shop went fully vegan in 2024, and some of its most beloved products are available in advent calendar form. Depending on your budget, there are two options to choose from. The Classic Beauty Advent Calendar contains mini versions of popular products, including Mango Shower Gel, Shea Shampoo, and Moringa Shower Gel. If you fancy splashing out on the Ultimate Beauty Advent Calendar, you’ll open each door to one of the brand’s top full-sized beauty products.
Revolution Beauty Advent Calendar
The Revolution Beauty Makeup Advent Calendar offers 24 beauty products for eyes, face, and lips – plus tools. Items include Pout Bomb Shimmer Lip Gloss in Berry Lustre, Satin Kiss Lipstick in Icon Nude, and a Highlighter Stick and Mirror.
Where to Buy Vegan Advent Calendars in the UK
It’s 2025, and vegan food and beauty products are everywhere, so there’s no need to go on a big expedition to pick up your vegan advent calendars. Finding one to suit you can be as simple as walking into supermarkets like Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose, or high street stores like Boots and The Body Shop.
As advent calendars often sell out, and stock varies, it’s probably safest to buy them online – that way you can be sure you’ll find the product you want most. Check out the websites of popular shops or online retailers, such as Amazon UK. Specialist vegan shops, like The Vegan King and Ethical Superstore, also tend to stock advent calendars.
Vegan Advent Calendar FAQs
Q: Are Vegan Advent Calendars More Expensive Than Regular Ones?
A: Not necessarily. Budget options like Plamil’s So Free start at just over £6, while luxury calendars can reach over £200 depending on contents.
Q: Can Children Enjoy Vegan Advent Calendars?
A: Absolutely. Many brands like Plamil and Moo Free design kid-friendly chocolate calendars with fun, festive packaging.
Q: Are Vegan Advent Calendars Also Gluten-Free?
A: Many are, but not all. Look for labels like “gluten-free” to make sure that what you’re buying is suitable for your dietary requirements. Nomo is a great allergen-free chocolate brand.
Q: Where Can I Buy Vegan Advent Calendars in the UK?
A: Online marketplaces like Amazon, high street shops, and supermarkets stock them widely.
Q: When Are Vegan Advent Calendars Released?
A: You can buy a wide range of vegan advent calendars , and they may even be available at reduced rates when December arrives.
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