Easter eggs and Ramadan

[LottleEsme]

Help!
I teach a small class of children and I was planning on collecting a little Easter egg each for them this morning as a gift for their hard work. 3 of my group are fasting for Ramadan and I don't want to leave them out! How do I do this?! They're amazing pupils and I love to show them how much I appreciate them.

Yep. The whole thread is unnecessary and a bit of common sense would have provided the answer.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Thanks all for your input.

Not entirely sure who I'm virtue signalling to, given that this forum is mostly anonymous, but some helpful posts were useful - thanks!

Don't think it has to be that deep. You're doing a nice thing, most kids will appreciate the chocolate so go for it.

Just get them all a book

As a rule, people should not be feeding random children junk, unless they’ve checked with the parents. I don’t even offer a Babybel or a homemade shortbread biscuit unless I’ve checked with the parent.

Ah, those amazing homemade shortbread biscuits that are magically less problematic than shop bought ones. I would be glad if you asked me, since I don't know where your hands have been. But if it's shop bought, bring it on🤣

Some posters should just take the stick out of their arse. The Easter eggs are a lovely thought. Any child well enough trained to recognise 'junk' will throw theirs in the bin or give it away to their less healthy friend, or perhaps bring it home and hand it to their parent, who can then get on the phone and complain about the teacher who tried to do something nice. These are, of course, equal opportunities options, applicable to all religions or none.

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Thanks for all the jabs at me for merely pointing out how harmful seed oils are.

Keep treating your bodies and those of your children as trash cans. I’m sure they’ll thank you for it in a decade or two. 👍

But stop kidding yourself you are “doing a nice thing” by handing out insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes palm oil to strangers’ children.

Give everyone an egg but tell all the children they have to wait til they get home to eat them

I'm just imagining the faces of DCs if the OP announced "As a reward for your good work kids, I was going to get you all Easter Eggs but on the advice of Mumsnet, I got you dates instead. Enjoy!"

Dates are used to break the fast presumably because they are high in sugar and indigenous to Arab countries so would've been readily available to the first Muslims. But it's like eating cardboard. Although I like them in a scone.

@THisbackwithavengeance have you tried the Asda extra special dates? I used to think dates were horrible until I tried these. Nearly £5 a box now though.

These aren't little kids. Presumably a fair few maybe making their own food choices at the canteen or tuck shop everyday. Op isn't giving them chocolate everyday. End of term/ Easter is a treat. Muslim DD and her friends will eat Easter eggs, now that they fast they would save them until after dinner. DD loves a date and breaks her fast with one every day but would still love the chocolate.

If your dates taste like cardboard then you are being tight and need to stop buying shit ones.