The move to ban glitter and reduce plastic in Christmas ranges means that Morrisons will be removing more than 50 tonnes of plastic from its shelves during the festive period, and more across non-seasonal products all year round. The crown is a bit rubbish but the prizes make up for it, giving the posher crackers a run for their money. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The shoebox shape boxes from the other two retailers seemed more resilient with just enough gap to see what was inside. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Andy Whiteman, Product Developer at Morrisons, said: “Santa Paws is truly coming to Morrisons this year as we introduce our biggest and best Christmas pet range. And then, if you've got little kids, they're not going to want to wait whilst you pop out all the counters. The other thing that was good was the fact that everything in the box was 100 percent plastic free and recyclable, including the box and the game.

Mr Kimpton, 70, of Norwich, Norfolk, the author of Tom Smith's Christmas Crackers, said: "How many similar products survive so long?

This means that we’re now 100 per cent glitter free across all our own brand ranges which is an important step in the fight against plastic pollution. These very pretty red and white snowflake crackers felt sturdy and of decent quality with a good bang, a hat and jokes.A big family pack of crackers decorated with photos of Santa making his deliveries on the back of a scooter.

Cheerful-looking, festive crackers, but they seem to contain the same novelty gifts and jokes as the brands from Lidl and Dobbies . Christmas Crack Ingredients: - 1 cup butter - 1 cup light brown sugar - Two sleeves of saltine crackers - 1 package of chocolate chip Sprinkles (optional) Instructions: 1. It is filled with enough cheap and cheerful plastic novelty toys, multi-coloured hats and corny jokes for eight people.A 45mm tiny sticky notebook, paper tape-measure, three ‘magic cards’, a springy key-ring thingy and golden crown with a joke and a charade suggestion left me feeling a little let down. This means all Morrisons cards, crackers, wrapping paper, present bags, flowers, plants and wreaths are now 100 per cent glitter-free. It’s one super-sized cracker – and, yes, it does come with an extra-loud snap – and is packed with chocolate snowflakes and penguins as well as festive specials like mince pie brownies, Christmas mess and apple strudel.