Nestle Chocolate Egg with Two Kit Kat Chunky Bars

Review of Nestle Easter Egg with two Kit Kat Chunky Bars

Well, Easter has been and gone, as has my Easter Egg! I may be over 50, but my Mum still buys me an egg and makes me promise not to open it until Easter Sunday if I am not seeing her over the actual weekend.
This year she presented me with a Kit Kat Chunky egg. I know for a fact that she got it along with a selection of Easter eggs for other family members some weeks before the event when Sainsbury's had a buy 5 eggs for £5 promotion. Mum did her best to hide the Easter gifts from me, but as I'd taken her shopping and packed her buys at the checkout, I was pretty certain that at least one of the eggs would come my way!

The product, price, weights and packaging

The Easter egg consisted of a fairly thick, hollow milk chocolate egg and two full sized Kit Kat Chunky chocolate bars. The weight of the egg itself is approx 135g and the Kit Kat bars are 50g each.
As stated above, my mother purchased this Easter egg as part of a supermarket special offer, so she paid £1 for it. The manufacturer's recommended price for the egg was £1.99.

This year, 2009, Nestle have undertaken to reduce the non recyclable packaging used in their Easter eggs. The usual plastic presentation tray inside the carton has been replaced with a cardboard basket in which the egg and chocolate bars sit. They are still well protected and the overall packaging has been decreased by 25%. A good move from Nestle on an environmental issue.

The outer cardboard box bears the Kit Kat logo, the Nestle trade name in a heart shaped lozenge and a picture of the Kit Kat chunky bars. The main colour is red and the carton projects a bright, cheerful and modern image. All nutritional information, manufacturer information and further details on how to go about recycling Nestle's Easter egg carton, are on the sides and rear of the package.

Taste, aroma and the chocolate!

The chocolate egg was a decent size and the chocolate was sweet and creamy without being sickly. At first bite it was firm in texture but soon melted in the mouth to a rich chocolatey dream. I could not detect any after-taste other than chocolate, which in my opinion is a plus for Nestle. It can be very disappointing to eat chocolate and be left with a cloying sweetness. The Kit Kat bars were exceptional, the same size as those you can buy individually and very good quality. Nestles chocolate has virtually no discernible aroma.

Chocolate, as most chocolate lovers will know, can vary enormously, but this Easter egg was produced with a reasonably good quality chocolate which certainly shows in the taste and flavour of the egg. The chocolate taste does of course depend on the cocoa solid mass used in the production and whilst this is certainly not one of your 70% cocoa chocolates, having 25% cocoa solid does put it above some of the other Easter eggs I've seen on the market.

Nutrition values

No confectionery product is ever going to be healthy and with this in mind, I am not going to list each and every ingredient and nutritional value! Suffice to say, each Kit Kat chunky bar contains 263 calories, 31g carbohydrate, 14.3g fat and 2.6g protein. The egg contains 800 calories in total, with 5.6g protein, 61g carbohydrate and 29g fat per 100g.
As I stated earlier not a healthy option, but what confectionery is?!

Nestle company information

Nestles is a well known company who produce a wide range of products.
The United Kingdom branch of Nestle has a free customer helpline number, 0800 604604 and their postal address is:-
Nestle
PO Box 203
York
YO91 1XY
For further information on Nestle and their products can be found on the company website.
www.nestle.co.uk

Conclusion

An enjoyable Easter egg which I scoffed with relish! Hardly health or diet concious, but as a now and again treat, a very pleasant chocolate egg and accompanying chocolate bars.
Would I buy again? For myself, no I would not, but as an Easter gift for family or friends, then I feel you would have to go a long way to beat this particular Easter egg for value and quality.

Thank you for reading
©brittle1906 April 2009

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