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Do you buy your kids Easter eggs?

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Morningcoffeeview · 07/04/2023 20:15

And if so how old are they?

Mine and nearly 2 and 4. I’ve never got them eggs and tbh I don’t really give them all that we get given. They get given so many 6+ each and they are only small. They get the odd one but they get so many. DH and I tend to scoff them instead… In fact I’m eating one right now.

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Hotcrossed · 08/04/2023 09:05

yes, but not for me Sad
i also bought mini eggs for work colleagues, but due to lent have not given them out, and may just keep them!

AlwaysGinPlease · 08/04/2023 09:50

@CraftyGin you sound proud of being horrible, to children that need even more kindness. You absolutely shouldn't be a foster parent. If they found out what you are like I don't think you would be. You're awful.

rc22 · 08/04/2023 12:34

I'm 45. My mum buys me an egg, one for my 48 year old DH and one for my 43 year old brother 😀

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:24

So I had a little look at the sugar content of the eggs - I took a Cadbury wispa egg.

Egg alone has 84g of sugar plus the wispa which has 15g that’s 99g of sugar. A 2-4 year old should have no more than 19g of “free sugar” a day (NHS) so ONE egg contains 5 days of sugar. That’s if they’re not having anything else and they do have fruit, jam/honey on their breakfast etc so suffice to say they of course have other sources.

My nearly two (but still one year old) has had 8 similar eggs. That’s 40 days worth of sugar if he’s not having sugar from any other sources.

Say I just give him the 25g serving that’s a sixth of an egg, that’s 14g sugar. So 75% of his daily sugar intake.

id have to do that for 56 days for him to eat all his eggs.

But don’t forget they have 2-3 birthday parties a month and other days when their sugar intake is higher. Like family dinners etc.

Yeah I think it’s too much for a toddler and it’s not just me being disordered but actually responsible as a parent. It’s not just “one day” it’s a minimum of two and actually probably several months of sugar overload to have all his eggs to himself.

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Darhon · 09/04/2023 09:30

Three late teens now, with separated parents. So a large egg from each of us and a small chocolate gift from my mum. As kids we did them a trail and they got eggs from other relatives too. But they’ve never had as many as I had as a child. I got them from grandparents, parents, 3 aunts/uncles. But I think kids only got treated at Easter/birthdates/Christmas then. Whereas, often children are treated more frequently now. Certainly we have never given additional gifts at Easter.

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 09/04/2023 09:32

@Morningcoffeeview We do now (DD’s 9) but certainly didn’t when she was as small as your younger child. I can’t remember at what age we started - 4, maybe? But I agree that a 1-year-old doesn’t need chocolate.

NewNovember · 09/04/2023 09:34

They can't have 6 eggs between now and the end of July? Why on Earth not?

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:35

NewNovember · 09/04/2023 09:34

They can't have 6 eggs between now and the end of July? Why on Earth not?

Because it’s far too much sugar as I have illustrated. I’m confident their usual diet probably reaches the daily limits of sugar so it’s not like this is the only source.

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:35

Also they have a total of 16 eggs! We’ve not seen all our relatives yet so I suspect they’ll be more. It’s too much.

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tuppencenonethericher · 09/04/2023 09:36

Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:24

So I had a little look at the sugar content of the eggs - I took a Cadbury wispa egg.

Egg alone has 84g of sugar plus the wispa which has 15g that’s 99g of sugar. A 2-4 year old should have no more than 19g of “free sugar” a day (NHS) so ONE egg contains 5 days of sugar. That’s if they’re not having anything else and they do have fruit, jam/honey on their breakfast etc so suffice to say they of course have other sources.

My nearly two (but still one year old) has had 8 similar eggs. That’s 40 days worth of sugar if he’s not having sugar from any other sources.

Say I just give him the 25g serving that’s a sixth of an egg, that’s 14g sugar. So 75% of his daily sugar intake.

id have to do that for 56 days for him to eat all his eggs.

But don’t forget they have 2-3 birthday parties a month and other days when their sugar intake is higher. Like family dinners etc.

Yeah I think it’s too much for a toddler and it’s not just me being disordered but actually responsible as a parent. It’s not just “one day” it’s a minimum of two and actually probably several months of sugar overload to have all his eggs to himself.

Completely agree

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:36

I will save some for summer potty training 😂 daily sugar limits don’t count then!

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Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:37

Yes of course. Even my 13 year old secretly enjoys the hunt with his younger brother. He had a chocolate bar for breakfast with milk, gasp!! He’s now gone to play a 90 minute game of competetive football. But to be honest this is the only day of the year when a glass of milk and some chocolate is acceptable.

Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:38

In the morning that should have said.

ferneytorro · 09/04/2023 09:38

Morningcoffeeview · 07/04/2023 21:21

Better ring the social care hotline.

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Joking aside, I’d Be careful with the older one as it can teach them that their presents are not theirs. I used to have a mum that ate mine and I felt obliged to say it was ok when I really did t think it was but I thought I was expecting say i didn’t mind.

Awrite · 09/04/2023 09:39

No, and I never have. They are late teens and early teens.

They have been gifted 2 each this Easter by family. So far.

When they were little, the vast majority of gifted eggs went in the bin. A much better place for them.

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:40

ferneytorro · 09/04/2023 09:38

Joking aside, I’d Be careful with the older one as it can teach them that their presents are not theirs. I used to have a mum that ate mine and I felt obliged to say it was ok when I really did t think it was but I thought I was expecting say i didn’t mind.

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Genuinely the older one isn’t fussed by them. He had some eggs left in a basket at the bottom
of his bed. Between DH and I we had to prompt him probably half a dozen times to even go and look - he was more interested in his porridge.

Younger one by contrast threw his porridge aside and was straight into the eggs.

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Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:43

We do have too many eggs though from family. We forget about them and they end up in the cupboard for months. I just forget they’re there in the end.

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:45

Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:43

We do have too many eggs though from family. We forget about them and they end up in the cupboard for months. I just forget they’re there in the end.

Yes we get too many. It’s a nice gesture but I tell those I can not to bother. I don’t feel I can tell elderly relatives that though as I know part of the joy for them is in the gifting and they don’t need sugar guidelines ramming down their throats.

My DH has a big family and they’re all relatively local. When I was a kid I’d get maybe 2 or 3.

I struggle to have the cupboard space too! I took some of their boxes and put them in a basket. I like the tuppawear idea someone else suggested upthread.

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Oblomov23 · 09/04/2023 09:46

Yes. Still. 19 and 15, and I still did an Easter egg hunt this morning. Dh buys a Malteser pack of 17 eggs and bars of chocolate, which I hide.

Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:50

@Morningcoffeeview

The sugar guidelines wouldn’t concern me they can be spread out if necessary and not ate in one sitting. I’ve never overly been concerned with sugar with mine due to the sheer amount of sport and activity we do as a family and also genetically slim. Coupled with nutritious meals etc it’s not biggy if mine actually do want some chocolate from time to time. Can appreciate it’s difficult for people though. I work with kids and they’re getting bigger every single year.

Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:51

Well, my husband is very slim naturally. I’m not, I have to work at it. But, they all take after his side and not mine 🐷.

WhatAmIDoingWrong123 · 09/04/2023 09:51

I’ve made her hot cross buns for her breakfasts over Easter and we got her an egg from us. She’s had books from one set of grandparents, chocolate bunnies and some other things from the other set and a little outfit from my sister.

I used to have about 12 eggs when I was a kid from different friends and family, but the same thing doesn’t seem to be happening here!

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:52

Easterfunbun · 09/04/2023 09:50

@Morningcoffeeview

The sugar guidelines wouldn’t concern me they can be spread out if necessary and not ate in one sitting. I’ve never overly been concerned with sugar with mine due to the sheer amount of sport and activity we do as a family and also genetically slim. Coupled with nutritious meals etc it’s not biggy if mine actually do want some chocolate from time to time. Can appreciate it’s difficult for people though. I work with kids and they’re getting bigger every single year.

I was just trying to illustrate in tangible terms quite how much sugar that is. I don’t monitor their intake but I am mindful of it. I don’t have any concerns for their weight right now but it’s a factor I consider.

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Susurrar · 09/04/2023 09:55

Of course I buy my child an Easter Egg. A huge one. I also get one and so does DP. We also do an Easter egg hunt, this year I hid 20 small chocolate eggs. DC also gets Lego and we’re also going to do another Easter egg hunt in the park. DC gets loads of chocolate for Easter because we have a large family. I don’t police his chocolate consumption and I think that’s one of the reasons he’s really not that bothered. Last year he used some of the eggs for rice crispies nests and chocolate cupcakes and still had some eggs left on the run up to Christmas.
I come from a diet obsessed home, my mum knew the kcal and sugar content of every food item on the planet and I was aware of the looming danger of becoming fat and therefore ugly probably at the age of 5. It didn’t do me any favours so I’m trying very hard not to make food an issue for my son. We eat healthily because we want to feel good and we are active because it makes us feel good, that’s it. A chocolate egg or 2 is not going to push us over the edge.

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Morningcoffeeview · 09/04/2023 09:58

@Susurrar I appreciate what you’ve just said and come from an equally diet obsessed home so wish my children to be sheltered from that too. But bear in mind the ages of my children, especially my youngest, their eggs going into the cupboard and not surfacing again isn’t even on their radar. They’re still v much at the stage where I prepare their food for them rather than ask.

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