Sweets Direct Review: A Pick ‘n’ Mix Lover’s Dream
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If you’re anything like me, the words Pick ‘n’ Mix instantly transport you back to happy childhood days, the excitement of that cup or paper bag with your favourites, then trying (and often failing) to resist nibbling before you get to the till. Well, thanks to Sweets Direct, that nostalgic joy is now just a few clicks away, and it’s even better when you can do it from your sofa in your pyjamas and have it delivered straight to your door!
A Sweet Selection for Every Appetite
One of the things I love about Sweets Direct is that their Pick ‘n’ Mix comes in a range of sizes to suit any craving, or excuse! You can go for:
- 250g – 5 picks
- 500g – 10 picks
- 1kg – 20 picks
- 1.75kg – 35 picks
- 2kg – 20 picks
- 5kg – 50 picks
I was kindly sent the 1kg option, which meant I could choose 20 different sweet treats. Honestly, it felt like the online version of standing in front of a giant sweet stand with a scoop in hand, only without the risk of someone knocking into you mid-scoop.
Easy to Navigate & Fun to Use
The Sweets Direct website is beautifully laid out and easy to navigate, to find the sweets of your choice, from pre-mixed sweet options, to retro favourites and more! You can even shop by sweet type if you know exactly what you want. They also have a 5-star food hygiene rating
When it comes to the Pick ‘n’ Mix page, one of my favourite features is the handy tracker that shows you exactly how many picks you’ve selected for your chosen size. It’s perfect for making sure you don’t accidentally miss out on a sweet you had your eye on or overfill your bag (although, is there really such a thing as too many sweets?).
Freshness Guaranteed
When my order arrived, I was impressed by how fresh everything was. The sweets come with a Best Before date for both when they’re sealed and after you open the pack, ideal for those with more willpower than me who might make them last longer than a few days.
The Pick ‘n’ Mix create your own range starts at £3.99!
Delivery & Dispatch
Sweets Direct, send via Royal Mail Tracked 48 or Tracked 24 (depending on how desperate your sweet tooth is). Dispatch is quick, just 1–2 business days, and delivery is free when you spend £45 or more.
A Little Something Back – The Loyalty Programme
If you think you might become a repeat customer (and I suspect you will), their loyalty programme is worth signing up for. You earn 10 points for every £1 spent, and every 100 points is worth 50p off your next order. It’s a sweet little bonus that adds up quickly.
Plus, if you really like Pick ‘n’ Mix, you can sign up for a monthly subscription and save 15% with the choices of 500g or 1kg and fizzy, non-fizzy or a mix!
Final Thoughts
Whether you’re stocking up for a movie night, sending a gift, or simply treating yourself because you deserve it (and you do), Sweets Direct makes it easy, fun, and delicious. With so many size options, a smooth ordering process, and the joy of creating your own personalised Pick ‘n’ Mix, it’s definitely a treat worth trying.
Tip: Just be prepared, choosing between fizzy bottles, jelly hearts, chocolate treats, and gummy bears is harder than it looks!
What is your favourite type of sweet that you can get from Sweets Direct?
Competition
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rhubarb and custards, cherry gummy’s and anything else fruity flavour are my favourites!
I’d add Kola Cubes to my cart because even though I didn’t eat many sweets as a child I’d buy a quarter on Saturday afternoons as a treat to enjoy over the weekend.
I’d make a mix of all sorts of sweets for my cart.
Love Wine Gums, so they’d be the first sweets going into my cart.
I honestly can’t choose! I think I’d have to go with the fizzy sweet mix
I like retro sweets, so I’d like the Fruit Salads.
My top choice would be the Glisten Chocolate Mini Eggs. I love chocolate and I can’t resist Mini Eggs!
I like fizzy sweets, so the 1kg Fizzy Sweet Mix would be top of my list.
Fizzy sweets for my little boy as they are his favourites
I would love milk bottles , strawberry milkshake bottles and some fizzy sweets for my husband
All the fizzy sweet options!! nothing better!!
strawberry pencils , i love the soft centres and chewy outside
I would choose fizzy cola bottles, my favourite childhood sweets. What a blast from the past that would be!
jelly cherries are a favourite
Cola Bottles!
cola bottles and fizzy dummies
Jazzies, bon bons….eveything!
White Jazzies I can’t get of them. The creamy candy with the crunch of the hundreds and thousands on top. Delicious 😋
Sherbet Lemons and other hard boiled sweets.
Fizzy cherry cola bottles because they’ve always been my favourite
coconut mushrooms as I’ve always enjoyed their taste since my dad gave me some when I was a kid
I would choose chocolate jazzie’s and blue & pink bubblegum bottles because they are sooooo good! 🙂 x
Jelly berries because they were my absolute favourite when I was young and I haven’t seen them in years! Also up there for particular nostalgia value are foam shrimps and bananas, milk bottles and fruit salads. Pick n mix is the best!
I would fill the bag with a variety of Bon Bons.
Tongue Painter Bats – My grandkids love watching their tongues change colour!
My son likes fizzy colas and peach rings, I’d go for chocolatey ones like jazzies and chocolate mice. Also I haven’t had chocolate fish and chips for years!
Too many to choose from but definitely fish and chips, jazzies, dracula teeth, fizzy peaches and red lips because they remind me of the 10p sweet bags I used to buy as a kid.
Difficult choice but definitely Toffee Bonbons, Jazzies, milk bottles and aniseed balls as they remind me of my childhood and going to the corner shop
fizzy bubble gum bottles, chocolate ice cream cones and flying saucers it would remind me of my childhood.
Oh my gosh! My faves are always white mice, chocolate jazzies, fish and chips and black jacks. Want!
I love really sour sweets so like sour dummies or bears
Little pink foam shrimps, I’ve loved them since childhood.
Hard gums are my favourite…
anything liquorice and also raspberry liquorice and any other flavours. liquorice is for me, the flavoured ones to share with my niece and nephews 🙂
Love hearts _ simple and classic
Love Hearts. They are lovely and refresshing
These sound delicious!
Well, I love love love Halloween, and it’s next month… yay! So I would choose the Dracula teeth…old skool style!
I’m a massive fan of apple bonbons but rarely see them these days. They’d be the first into my bag.
Fizzy bubblegum bottles. I love fizzy sweets and these are my favourite.
i love chocolate ones like the white chocolate stars
I love chocolate ones like white chocolate stars
So many sweets to choose from! But I’d go for the sour cherries as my first pick
Drakula Teeth as the Halloween is around the corner
Skull Crushers ready for halloween!
love the look of these sweets , cherries are my favourite! but my family love any sweets especially fizzy ones!!
My favourites are anything watermelon or peach, extra points for a bit fizzy 🙂
I would put the Tongue painter bats into my cart because i think bats are cute and i would love to try these.
I would include fizzy bubblegum bottles, blue raspberry bonbons, bubblegum bonbons, raspberry liquorice slices, cola bottles, fizzy cherries, foam bananas, chocolate limes. All our favourites!
I would definitely include blue raspberry bonbons, bubblegum bonbons, raspberry liquorice slices, cola bottles, fizzy cherries and chocolate limes. All my favourites!
cola bottles
My favourites are the cola bottles and cherries , they bring back so many childhood memories.
milk bottles have always been my favourite so addictive and yummy
Love hearts for me because they’re my favourite, strawberry bon bons for my eldest because shes obsessed and fizzy cherry cola bottles for my youngest who loves them, anything sugary and sour!
That would be a big decision but probably chocolate jazzies – reminds me of pick n’ mix at Woolies!
I’d stock up on any blue sweets – love both raspberry & bubble gum flavours
its gotta be the cherry’s theyre the best, could eat them non stop, like cherry juice flavour
this would satisft my sweet tooth. White chocolate mice are super nostalgic!
Wine gums because I have always loved them and sherbert lemons, they were my dad’s favourites
Love Hearts
I’m a big fan of anything fizzy and my favourite is the pink and blue bubblegum bottles!
It’s got to be White Chocolate Mice, I love the sweet chocolate and they’re very nostalgic!
I’m looking forward to Halloween and trick or treaters, so I’d stock up on scary sweets like the jelly eyeballs to hand out!
Sherbet Lemons and many other hard boiled sweets. I love Love Hearts and Strawberry Pencils.
I love anything Fizzy, love haribo and also love hearts
Milk bottles as my nan used to buy these for me when i was knee high to a grasshopper.
Has to be Fizzy cola bottles for me, just love them, reminds me of my Woolworths pick n mix days.
I would choose strawberry pencils and icy cups because they are delicious and remind me of my childhood
Icy cups! Used to love those when I was a kid.
Mystery Pick and Mix, because I love a good mystery
I would get some Milk Bottles as I haven’t had them since I was a child.
I could seriously eat some strawberry pencils right now!
pint pots always loved them and so hard to find now
Fizzy cola bottles and cherries as these remind me of my childhood
White and pink mice, plus fizzy cola bottles
I would choose jelly beans because there are so many flavours so something for everyone.
I’d definitely get some pint pots. I used to love these as a kid, tastes like lemonade shandy 🙂
I’d get some chocolate white mice as I’ve yet to find white chocolate that is as delicious as these!
Pink Pigs – Chocolate Jazzies – Jelly Beans and White Chocolate Mice all firm favourites but to be perfectly honest I would happy with any combination because I have a really sweet tooth
Strawberry pencils! They remind me of my childhood!
I’d go mostly rhubarb and custard – for me, and cola bottles – for my partner
I love Icy Cups, so chocolatey, smooth and very, very moreish!
White milk bottles and white mice have always been my first picks. I have to agree that Sweets Direct is the place to go for Pick ‘n’ Mix.
cherries and cola bottles!
I’d pick the strawberry pencils because they’re my all time favourites, but also the haribo rhubarb and custards, ive never seen them before and they are in my favorite shape so I expect they’d be delicous 😋
Shrimps and cola bottles were always my favourites – we used to walk home so we could spend the bus money at the sweet shop
my favourite sweets are baby dolphins so I would choose to add those
I would take my luck, knowing I would like whatever I chose.
rhubarb and custard, cola bottles and fried eggs. Those are my favourite
It’s got to be retro for a trip down memory lane. Cola bottles because we all love them. Shrimps, Jelly Babies and other retro sweets.
Fizzy bubblegum bottles and Haribo rhubarb and custard. My two absolute favourites.
Fizzy Bubblegum Bottles / Baby Dolphins / Green & Red Candy Canes / Witches Heads
For me, it’s white chocolate mice, sherbets and pink prawns.
Icy cups were my absolute favourite as a child, I would add them. The Pink Sweet Mix looks delicious too. I know my daughter would love this mix.
Fizzy cherries for me and anything blue raspberry flavour!
chocolate is my weakness
I would order fizzy cherries as they remind me of childhood
The giants strawberries, they are my absolute fave! 😍🍓
Weirdly I love gummy cola bottles but not the drink itself.
Oh my goodness, those Fried Eggs and Fizzy Colas would be straight on my list. They are soooo tasty & perfect for a pick me up when walking!
Would have to be the Rhubarb & Custard Chewy Bon Bons – combines two of my absolute favourites!
I would add white chocolate Jazzies as they’re my favourite and love crunching them
For me it has to be the Jelly Berries, I love jelly sweets, and the berry ones are always a favourite rather than orange, lemon, etc
Definitely the Milk teeth – I love the ones with the powder on and you don’t see them anymore.
Anything chocolate would be added to my cart as im a real chocoholic
I love anything cherry flavoured, so either fizzy cherries or happy cherries.
I’d fill it up completely with chocolate limes, can’t beat them.
I love pic n mix. Strawbs are number one for me.
I’d add the fizzy watermelon slices because I love anything watermelon flavoured and so do my kids!
The Haribo Rhubarb & Custard candy looks delish!
Fizzy watermelons slices, Fizzy cherry cola bottles and Rhubarb and custard would certainly make the list. Simply because i like them.
I would add fizzy bubblegum bottles, pigs mugs, passion Fruit slices and midget gems as those are all my favourite sweets.
Cola bottles and jazzies/snowies as those are my partners favourites 🙂
I don’t like these sorts of sweets, but my partner would be in heaven, he would take all of them.
Fruit Salads and Black Jack’s to transport me back to my youth.
Yummy, looks delicious and enough to share
I love Fried Eggs sweets – all to myself as others avoid them 🙂
I love Fried Eggs sweets. They remind me of childhood !
Would be such a fun task choosing which sweets to put in the bag
Freaky Fish, Bon Bons and Jazzies. As far as I can tell they don’t contain gelatine and as I am vegetarian that is essential.
White chocolate mice. They’d be a nostalgic treat as they were my favourite when I was little.
I am obsessed with Strawberry Pencils. I also love a foam banana!
foam mushrooms, foam shrimps, dracula teeth, white chocolate stars, twin cherries and haribo jelly babies
Mini Foam Bananas loved these since I was a bairn, used to get them in my 1d mix
I would add Flying Saucers because they are my favourites and Pina Colada Slices because I have never tried them before but I like Pineapple & Coconut.
My kids love jelly hearts so I’d add those to my cart
Chocolate limes, love them but haven’t had them for ages
There looks to be a good range of Vegan Pick N Mix. I’d like to try the different Bubs flavours.
I would choose sweet tobacco as it was a childhood favourite but unfortunately they don’t stock it so I would go for jelly beans, another childhood favourite
I would go for all jellies such as cola bottles, no fizzies but then add in things like HARIBO rhubarb and custard, yummy 😋🥰
i would add all jelly sweets they are my fave especially red and blue ones they bring back memories of my childhood
I would get the Vegan Sweet Mix 1kg so I can be sure there is no gelatin in them
I love Fruit sherbets and how the sherbet fizzes on my tongue
Pink sweet mix – all m favourite sweets to share or maybe eat myself !
I love munching on strawberry pencils when watching tv in the evening
The chocolate mix for my daughter, she loves the hundreds and thousand sprinkled ones and we don’t seem to be able to get them anymore.
I would add the bonbons. Lemon bonbons are my husband’s favourite.
White chocolate stars would be my first choice – I love anything chocolatey.
Spoilt for choice – love foam bananas and shrimps, they remind me of my childhood x
Anything fizzy and a little sour is straight in my basket!
I’d add strawberry bon bons, always a favourite in this house!
I would get a selection of Liquorice and jellies to share with my family.
Love hearts! The sherbet flavour is my favourite and the nostalgia element is the cherry on top!
Fizzy bubblegum bottles and chocolate jazzies because they remind me of my younger days
iid love all of them lol if i had to choose just one though id pick. fizzy bubblegun bottles nom nom
strawberry pencils the whole family love them and they are so addictive
I’d be tempted to add ALL of them to my cart! But if I had to choose a few, I’d go for chocolate jazzies, milk chocolate mice, white chocolate stars, juicy red lips, and blackberry & raspberry gums. I’m sure my dentist would agree with my choices!
A mix of cola bottles and gold bears!
The chocolate mix looks good! Can’t beat strawberry pencils too!
I would choose black jacks, i love the aniseed chews. I would let my 2 grandsons choose the rest then we could share them at the cinema.
I’d fill it with childhood favourites such s Haribo cola bottles, chocolate jazzing, mini foam bananas, Haribo gold bears, Haribo jelly babies and chocolate limes.
I would pop in some black Jacks to take me back to being 6 year old with black teeth!
I like the double cherry there my favourite one so them and a few white mice
I like the double cherry there my favourite one so them and a few white mice
I’d definitely get a couple of bars of Hershey’s Cookies ‘N’ Creme, they’re just so delicious 🙂
Can’t wait to try the fizzy rainbow bites! They were always my favourite to get from the local newspaper agents when I was growing up
I love all sweets but I’d prefer some fizzy ones as they’re my favourite!
I would choose some of the retro sweets like Black Jacks and Love Hearts along with things with sherbet in like Flying Saucers and Sherbet Lemons. Why? Because they rekindle happy memories of my 50s childhood and spending a long time in the sweet shop deciding how to spend my 3d (later 6d) a week pocket money. I am also a lifelong sherbaholic!
I am fond of the lemon sherbets as they remind me of going to the sweet shop when I was young
I would add fizzy cola bottles as it brings back memories of buying them from the school tuck shop
The vegan fizzy mix sounds like a bit of me!
Sooo many favourites on their website! But I would have to choose icy cups and spinning tops, yum!
I’d start with mini foam bananas, jazzies, white chocolate mice and fried eggs.
I would choose Blackberry & Raspberry Gums – I struggle to find these in a lot of sweet shops and I love them!!
foam strawberries, shrimps, bananas, jazzies chocolate limes and liquorice allsorts as these are my favourite sweets.
I like the fizzy sweets and Rhubarb & Custard best
All of them as it is more fun that way
Raspberry Liquorice Slices or white chocolate mice. sometimes two different sweets at the same time creates a better combo flavour.
I would actually eat all of these, no way to pick a favourite – yummy!
I would just pick the largest pick-n-mix as I couldn’t just pick one thing as it all looks so good, and of course would need the biggest one to try more!
i love cola bottles
I feel that I should be too old for pick n mix but it turns out I’m not
You are never to old for pick ‘n’ mix!
Pink sweet mix as they are my absolute favourite
These Mini Foam Bananas remind me so much of my childhood running to the shop to get sweets out of the penny tray!
I would add a true mix of sweets ranging from fizzy cola bottles to foam shrimps!
I would build a large bag of Laffy Taffy out of your fine selection of flavours as it has always been a favourite of mine.
I love that they have a vegan option and do a bag, most places just do a couple of different sweets… this is brilliant
I would choose the Haribo Gold Bears. They are not only delicious , but also have great nostalgic value , reminding me of my childhood , and the many occasions I would buy them as a treat .
I would add Blue Raspberry Bonbons! They remind me of my childhood!