One thing that always takes us back to our childhood is sweets. When I was younger you used to have the penny sweets and go in the shop with your 10p to choose your favourites. Or get a quarter of something (yes I am showing my age). Find out more in my Swizzels Sweet Hamper Review & Giveaway
I was recently contacted by Swizzels to ask if I would like to review their sweet collection. For a sweetaholic I could not refuse, and I knew I would have willing helpers as well.
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Retro Premium Sweet Hamper
I received the Retro Premium Sweet Hamper which is full of all the sweets from childhood, plus a few newer ones that we have grown to love.
What’s inside the box?
The top layer is one of my favourites Rainbow Drops
The next layer you will find packets of Squashies
Next you will find Double Dip I used to love these when I was younger as well especially the sherbert
Then you will find a huge selection including
- drumstick lollies
- double lollies
- parma violets
- love hears
- fizzers and more
The hamper really is a sweet lovers dream and bursting full of all the above.
My Opinion
One thing I have found over the years when buying sweet selections like this, is the disappointment on receiving them. Usually what you see in the picture you are buying is not as impressive as what turns up. The lovely selection you think you are buying is far less. I have always known Swizzels are a reputable brand, they have sweets from all our childhoods. On opening the hamper I was very impressed that it was full to the top. You literally could not have got another sweet in there. I am definitely going to be making my purchases from here from now on.
The Giveaway
If you have a love of sweets like we do, or know someone who would love to receive this hamper. I have one hamper as shown above to giveaway to one of my lucky readers. Full Terms and Conditions are shown on the entry widget, please ensure you complete all mandatory sections
Have you seen my other great giveaways
Dairy Diary 2021 and A Zest For Life Cookbook
I love drumstick lollies and sherbert dib dabs
Dip dabs and flying saucers were my favourite
I love the refreshers chews in the blue packet!
Drumstick lollies I always have to pinch one out of the childrens lots of lollies bag
Cola bottles
I used to love Sherbert Dabs
Cola cubes or fizzy dummies, there was a shop on the way home from school who sold them by the quarter!
My favourite was refreshers
Rhubarb and custard were my favourites
Sherbet fountain
I loved the double lollies…I still do haha
I loved Parma Violets!
I loved (and still do) the drumstick lollies. So do my kids now.
My favourites were opal fruits
Refresher Bars
My favourite sweets were cola cubes x
Drumstick lollies were/are my favourite
Flying Saucers were my favourite childhood sweet 🙂
I loved sherbet pips and white mice.
Pineapple chunks were my favourite
Black Jacks
i’ve always like refreshers
Gummy teeth
I loved Wham bars
My favourite sweet was cough candy. We used to get a quarter of those and a quarter of clove candy (I forget the proper name) on a Friday, after school.
I loved the sherbert dippies. Not sure if they were. Swizzels though!
I loved a pink panther chocolate bar & chocolate white mice.
Sherbet fountains
My favourite were the little white chocolate teddy bears
Black Jacks – we used to put the last little bit on a tooth and pretend we had a gap lol
Coke Cola love the taste.
i use to love the double dip ,
Flying saucers
I loved the fizzy cherries. I like sucking all the sugar off them first and then eating them…still a guilty pleasure.
Fizzer were my favourite
Looks fab
my husband loves his sweets every day i do the washing i will find a random assortment of wrappers in his trouser pockets 🙂 he would love this
I love Refreshers!
Black Jacks were my favourite childhood sweets 🙂
I liked peanut crunch
white mice
I loved and still love drun stick lollies and black jacks
Mmm black Jack’s I’ve nit has them I. Years!!! Fingers crossed 🤞 🤞 🤞
fried eggs
Parma violets for me!! I love the perfume taste!
Parma violets where my favourite
Swings
I loved the drumsticks
Mmmm Cola Cubes X
I love hearts
Blackjacks and fruit salad where my favourite childhood sweets and still are
Flying saucers – even now when I see them at fairgrounds I have to buy a bag!
cola cubes
White mice are my favourite
Drumstick lollies yummy
Flying saucers were my favourite sweets
Pear drops
I loved a dib dab
My favourite would be the refreshers, so moreish
So hard to choose, I absolutely loved sweets as a child! I think I would definitely say haribo sour mix is my favourite especially the cherries. Thank you for the fantastic giveaway
i loved blackjacks
I love the love hearts
Wham bars and refreshers
I love rhubarbs n custards still my favourite
Black jacks!
My absolute favourite sweets of my childhood were Trebor’s Mummies sweets – They had ghost stories on the inside of the wrappers.
Has to be fruit salads or drumstick lollies ❤️❤️
Drumstick lollies
The double dip were my fave as a kid and still is now! Love sherbet
My absolute fave is the drumstick lolly
I use to love frosties not seen them in years. They only use to cost 10p
Palma violets – love them or hate them – well I love them.
i used to love sherbet Pips because you got loads for 10p
Great memories 🍭
Cola pips you used to get so many for your quarter!
Sherbet Fountains
love parma violets, still have the odd pack now
Sweet tobacco
Refreshers was my fav
Flying Saucers
I was addicted to those chocolate covered foam bananas, and kola cubes were also amazing x
Drumstick lollies were my favourite and still are
Cola cubes or bonbons
I used to love Wham bars and bubbly bubble gum. Everything seems to have shrunk in size these days though! x
White mice
So delicious
I always loved Refreshers.
flying saucers filled with extremely tangy sherbet – and sherbet dip with a liquorice sticks x
My fav was lemon sherbet – they are still yummy even today
I used to like black jacks as they made my mouth turn black!
Jelly sprogs are my fave childhood sweets
So many to choose from but I think favourite are rainbow drops nom nom
frosties – cola flavour
Sherbet fountains.
Drumstick lollies
I loved drumsticks ❤
I love parma violets and double dips i used to give the stick to my sister and just eat the sherbet lol. Dip dabs were best because i liked the lolly as well as the sherbet
Sherbet Dabs
I loved sherbet fountains
Loved milk bottles and the penny chews (whose name I can’t remember!)
It’s like going down memory lane. Its fabulous. I love sizzles. There my all time favourite sweet.
Cola Spangles
LOVE love hearts + sour belts/fizzy laces
I loved the Fruit Salad sweets
My favourite would have been Drumstick lollies.
I loved pink mice!!
I loved milk bottles
I loved black jacks 2 for 1p yay! Made your teeth and tongue black but that was part of the fun!
Sherbet Pips were my favourite, I liked getting so many.
My favourite were foam bananas and shrimps!
Loved the penny tray, Anglo bubbly up there as a fave
Russian caramels, were, and still are my favourite.
It was actually parma violets, closely followed by oddfellows.
lovehearts
Definitely has to be fruit salads for me!
Blackjacks
Drumstick Lollies are my favourite
I loved black jacks
Definitely cola bottles I love any sweet tho ha
My whole family loves drumstick squashies!!
My favourites are Black Jacks
My absolutely all time favourite sweets are the swizzels drum stick lollies… I just try & get it off the stick in one go!!
Flying Saucers
Blackjacks 😊
Fizzy cola bottles
Cola cubes were a favourite of mine.
Loved sherbet lemons
I always loved haribo eggs.
I used to love sherbert but its too sweet nowadays
I loved cola bottles
Drumstick lollies
Sherbert dippers!Yum!
black jacks
Fizzy cherry cola bottles every time!!
Fruit Salads
I loved the sherbet dibdabs…still do!
Blackjacks – esp because your tongue went black
Amazing
I love the purple liquorice flavour boiled sweets with a chewy middle. They were in the 1p pick and mix at our corner shop
White chocolate mice were my favourite childhood sweets.
Swizzles are my absolute fave!
I’ll have a fight on my hands if I’m luck, 4 adults kids will all want a share.
Giant strawberries
Swizzels are the sweetie Kings
Parma violets were my favourite childhood sweet
I used to love rhubarb and custard sweets. So good!
i love palma violets!
Fruit salads and Blackjacks
Smarties especially the orange ones
Drumsticks
Sherbert pips
Black jacks
I grew up in Switzerland and we had these sweets the cola frogs I still buy them when I’m over there and love them, full of sugar and make my teeth hurt but they take me right back to my childhood
Absolutely loved Rhubarb & Custards as a kid.
My favourite sweets are cola bottles. Especially the larger sized ones.
Love a drumstick lolly!
I used to love Fruit Salads. x
Parma violets
I loved candy lipsticks and melody pops
I loved Opal fruits, I didn’t mind the name changing but they changed the flavours too, loved that they brought them back this year for a limited time
Palma Violets
Cola bottles
I liked the Drumstick lollies, actually I still do!
Cola Bottles. Used just but them by 1/4 at the sweet shop.
As a child I was a big fan of jelly babies, in fact I still am.
My favourite childhood sweets were Tootie Frooties.
Has to be Double Dips!
Ialways loved Cola cubes!
Double duo i loved them
We used to love the parma violets when we were children!
Was parma violets. Still a favourite now. Just in gin form
Parma violets and still 30 years on they are my favourite 😋
My favourite childhood sweets were Climpies bon bons from Swizzels but they stopped making them ages ago 🙁
I loved Bruiser chew bars!
My favourite was Highland Toffee and white mice
Peg Leg
It was a sweet sticky large sweet that had a halfpenny inside
My favourites were coconut mushrooms!
I loved the tartness of Refreshers – still do!
Parma violets, Mmmmmm still my fave!
I love love hearts 💕
I loved love hearts!
Black Jacks ,loved that they made my mouth all black
Pint pots. Still is. really, but they’re harder to get.
my favourite were cola bottles (and still are)
Black jacks. We used to see how many we could fit in our mouths and end up dribbling black everywhere.
fizzy cola bottles
My favourites were alphabet letters
Parma Violets! Got a bagful of them at the caravan for when we fancy a sweet treat 🙂
Fruit salad
Refreshers and fruit salads were my favorite when I was a kid, now I really like the squashies.
My favourite was liquorice (and still is) especially black jacks.
They are all lovely but double dip was always fun to eat
I loved a sherbet dib dab
I always loved Opal Fruits (would still eat them now if I could although they are Starburst now!)
Sherbet dips
My friend and I used to walk to the loa Post office and buy a double dip each and walk back chatting and dipping. Total nostalgia
I loved strawberry bon bons especially if they were covered in loads of strawberry powder.
I liked Swizzels Fun Gums – and I still do! 🙂 Thanks for running this giveaway
yes nice win!
Nothing beats a drumstick
I loved Jaw Breakers – the hot ones
texan bars
Parma Violets were & still are my faves!
Parma Violets 🤤🤤🤤
I loved Skittles!
Kola Kubes so chewy and stick to your teeth in the middle
I loved black jacks when I was younger.
I loved sherbet dips and made them last for ages and ages. I remember tearing open the packet and licking the paper too, I was obviously a disgusting sight!
My favourite childhood sweet was cola bottles
Drumsticks……yummmmmmy
Rhubarb and custards
My favourite sweet as a child was Parma violets, I still love them
Drumsticks
It was Toffee whirls . That was 50 years ago but I think they are still around.
Loved the double dip sherbert, yum yum 😋
Fruit salad sweets yumm
Fizz bombs. Not sure if they make those anymore
My favourites were love hearts as a child
Pink and white foam mushooms were my favourite.
Love Hearts
drumsticks and parma violets were and still are my favourites
It would have to be fizzy cola bottles for me
lovehearts for me!
My favourites would de Fruit Salads… would eat them all though 😉
I loved parma violets, yum thanks x
I love the double lollies!
Double dips are my all time favourite
My favourite sweet was a box of Maltesers
I loved pear drops even though they cut the roof of my mouth and tongue!
I loved Sherbet Dip – just the best sensation as a kid
Fab prize – i love refreshers!
Fruit Salads
Sherbert Flying saucers
Fruit Salads
Drumsticks! I still love them now
I always loved white chocolate fish and chips, used to buy for 1p each!
Pear Drops
mine was definitely Parma violets
Spangles
Highland Toffee
My favourites were black jacks
I loved Parma Violets, just tastd so much better than other sweets
My favourite was black jacks
My favourite sweets were flying saucers 😀 I still love them!
chocolate buttons, there’s nothing better – even now I’m quite old!
My favourite sweet was Irn Bru bars, loved them 🙂
American Hard Gums
Cola Bottles & Strawberry pencils
Blackjacks
I always loved refresher sweets… Still do x
Rainbow drops are my favourite retro sweet
I loved lemon bon bons!
Lovely and quite a tasty giveaway. My favourite childhood sweet has got to be the double lollies.
Parma violets were my favourite childhood sweet!
It has to be drumsick lollies
Fruit Salads
I used to like Apple Drops 🙂
I really liked white chocolate mice.
my favourite sweets were and still are jelly babies
I loved drumsticks
Cola bottles
chocolate limes!!
Yummy yummy
Loved Love Hearts
My favourite sweet was and still is parma violets
It’s all your childhood favourites in one.
I loved fruit salads and black jacks
my favourite childhood sweets were Coconut Mushrooms – delicious!
Flying saucers, still love them now!
You can’t beat a Parma violet, delicious
My favourite sweet was fruit salads
White mice are mine, yummy!
i love palma violets!
I have always loved a Drumstick, they are still my favourites
Sherbet saucers are my favourite
Flying Saucer were one of my childhood favourite sweets – still are
OMG Double DIP! I didn’t even know they still made them! I absolutely used to love these when I was little <3 What a fab hamper, would love this – really nostalgic.
Flying Saucers!
I loved getting Booty Bags when I was a child – sweets and a sticker, you can’t go wrong!
wow this prize is a blast from the past, i’m loving it
Refreshers love LOVE LOVE LOVE
my favorite sweet was a sherbet dip
I loved Drumstick lollies, when I was little. Now I eat the Drumstick bars 🙂
parma violets – omg that takes me back!
My favourite had to be black jacks – loved them
Drumstick lollies