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CHOCOLATE fans will be doubly disappointed this Christmas as Cadbury has shrunk its classic Santa Selection Box by ditching the Double Decker.
The 1970s and 80s favourite chocolate bar has been replaced with a caramel Freddo, which is around half the size.
This year’s box weighs just 125g, down by 14 per cent from 145g last year. It is more than a quarter smaller than the box was in 2018, when it was 169g.
But the price has increased.
In 2021 – when it was bigger – it was available in supermarkets for between £1.25 and £2.
This year, it costs between £1.75 and £2.75 at the UK’s four main supermarket chains.
Consumer expert Martyn James described the exchange of the Double Decker for a caramel Freddo as an “outrageous example of shrinkflation” – where companies sell a smaller product for the same or a higher price.
“A Freddo is the lowliest of chocs and is not a fair swap for the majestic Double Decker,” he said, adding that Cadbury had “ruined” the Christmas classic.
The former British brand Cadbury’s – now owned by US food giant Mondelez – came under fire in 2018 for removing the Fudge from the Santa selection box and replacing it with an Oreo bar.
But since U-turning on the move and reintroducing the family favourite in 2019, it has made repeated changes to the box which have left customers short-changed.
The latest move is thought to be the fourth time in six years the chocolate maker has cut the size of its traditional selection box.
In 2020, it shrunk the size of the Fudge in the box by 12 per cent.
Then a year later it cut the size of the Wispa and Double Decker bars, meaning customers got 24g less chocolate, compared with 2018.
Now the 37.3g Double Decker is gone completely, with the replacement caramel Freddo weighing it at just 19.5g.
Overall, there is 44g less chocolate in the box this year than there was in 2018.
It now includes small versions of Fudge, Wispa and Crunchie, a treatsize pack of mini buttons and small Dairy Milk bar and the caramel Freddo.
A 180g bar of Dairy Milk contains more chocolate and costs less at most supermarkets, at between £2 and £2.50.
Mondelez has been approached for comment.
We all love a bit of chocolate from now and then, but you don't have to break the bank buying your favourite bar.
Consumer reporter Sam Walker reveals how to cut costs…
Go own brand – if you’re not too fussed about flavour and just want to supplant your chocolate cravings, you’ll save by going for the supermarket’s own brand bars.
Shop around – if you’ve spotted your favourite variety at the supermarket, make sure you check if it’s cheaper elsewhere.
Websites like Trolley.co.uk let you compare prices on products across all the major chains to see if you’re getting the best deal.
Look out for yellow stickers – supermarket staff put yellow, and sometimes orange and red, stickers on to products to show they’ve been reduced.
They usually do this if the product is coming to the end of its best-before date or the packaging is slightly damaged.
Buy bigger bars – most of the time, but not always, chocolate is cheaper per 100g the larger the bar.
So if you’ve got the appetite, and you were going to buy a hefty amount of chocolate anyway, you might as well go bigger.
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A MAN who was declared medically dead three times after a horror car crash at the age of eight claims he saw his father in heaven.
Landon Kemp from Charlotte, North Carolina, was involved in a major collision with an ambulance on October 19, 1997.
The Pontiac Sunfire in which Kemp and his parents Andy and Julie were travelling from church was T-boned by the emergency vehicle.
Andy died in the accident and his eight-year-old son had to be revived at the scene, on the way to the hospital, and when he was at the Carolina’s Medical Center.
Kemp believes that on each occasion he went to heaven and that on one of these times, he saw his father before he was told of his death.
In an interview shared on YouTube his mother who suffered from broken ribs, a collapsed lung and a concussion, has detailed the moment her child revealed he had been to heaven.
After being in a coma for two weeks, Kemp opened his eyes and to the shock of his doctors had not sustained any brain damage.
However, his mother Julie knew she had to tell him about the death of his father.
“I didn’t want to hurt him anymore. So I asked him, Landon, do you know where your Dad is at?” she recalled.
“And he told me, ‘Yes I know where he’s at – I saw him in heaven.”
Kemp who is now 35 also claims to have seen other dead people including his two unborn siblings and Jesus.
Each time he went to heaven it was different, he explained.
“I remember being able to see my dad and his friend Olan Palmer who had passed away less than a month before he did, also in a car accident,” Kemp said.
“And Olan’s son, Neal Palmer, who had died on a four-wheeler years before.”
He claims that no one spoke but that they all stood around each other until he was revived.
Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.
Landon Kemp
Kemp also reportedly saw two other people who he had no prior knowledge of but knew they were family when he saw them.
“He looked over to me and he said ‘Oh mum by the way I forgot to tell you I saw your other two kids,'” Julie recalled.
“I just looked at him because I wasn’t sure what he was talking about.”
She revealed in the interview that before her son was born she had suffered two miscarriages which neither she nor her husband ever mentioned to their child.
“I knew that they were my siblings even though no one had ever told me about them,” Kemp said.
“Just being in heaven, I guess you know your own or you know who everyone is.”
On his third visit to heaven, Kemp says Jesus came to him and instructed him to return to Earth to “be a good Christian and tell others about him.”
While it is rare for people to believe they have seen things fro a higher place after a near-death-experience, others have shared their stories.
A mum-of-three who died for 40 minutes detailed last year what she saw as doctors were reviving her.
She claims something “magical” happened and she was “brought back” to life.
In 2021, a 55-year-old man who died when his heart stopped during an operation has since claimed that he became separate from his body before he was revived and was “in the spirit realm.”
“I knew I had died. I was separate from my body. Then I just went to sleep and I woke up, alive and the bleeding had stopped,” he said.
Meanwhile, two other women claimed that they have also seen heaven and that one is excited to return.
