Can anyone NOT eat all the sweets once the bag is open?

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I have two bags of chocolate sweets brought back from holiday. They are amazing. The first bag is gone - eaten in one or two sittings. Felt faintly sick and annoyed I’d got through them like that. They’ll be expensive to repurchase from the UK, too, so I’d like to make them last.

Are there others who can make sweets/chocolate last longer once the bag is open and if so, what are your special powers? I’d like to have, say, three sweets a night, for a treat after my evening meal.

Have thought of giving them to DP to look after and dole out to me but suspect he would have the same problem and just eat them all!

Sweets - depends what they are, I can sometimes resist
Chocolate - cannot resist at all
Crisps - can resist a bit
Wine/alcohol in general - can easily resist

I have a "fun money" budget every month and usually spend it all (£80). But I am pretty good at saving money generally. I'm also good at work projects and hobbies that require sustained mental effort/take a while to pay off. But I am also quite physically lazy.

So for me there doesn't seem to be a connection between being unable to resist physical pleasure and finding it hard to think long term in other ways.

I can make a bag last several days, but my mum can't. I have a large bag of Maltesers in the drawer at the moment which is on it's 4th day. It's just willpower, which I don't have in all areas, but I can manage it with sweets.

Clearly not…

I think it must be down to how you were brought up perhaps??

My parents were always quite strict with only allowing me say 2 biscuits at a time - and I was only allowed to buy one bag of sweets with my pocket money and didn't get any more sweets until next pocket money day. (this was when you bought 2/4oz sweets from a jar!) I used to challenge myself to make my Easter eggs last until my birthday (which is July) I guess I'm now just wired to make things last??

I very rarely if ever finish a hole bag of sweets or chocolates in one go. I do have a weakness for roasted nuts however especially the posh ones you get around Xmas.

I have tried to instil the same control with my kids but have epically failed - they are adults now but happily wolf down an entire bag of sweets or chocs.

Sweets and chocolates can sit around for months in our house. DD1 literally cracked into her chocolate penguin from Christmas last night. We really don't have a collective sweet tooth.

Crisps, on the other hand... 😬

My scale goes:

Cake or biscuits - not at all bothered, will happily have sitting round waiting for other family members to eat them.

Chocolate - getting a bit harder, but can limit myself to a few pieces with a cup of tea.

Sweets - difficult. I have to share them with DDs to make sure I don't eat a whole bag.

Cheese - the limit is my stomach rather than my willpower, but it doesn't last long.

Crisps - I'll fight you for them. If they're in the house, I eat them.

A box of chocolates will often be unopened in the cupboard for several months. Once opened we'd have one or two chocolates per evening but probably not every evening. Same with a decent bar of 85% chocolate. Don't really eat other types of sweets except an occasional boiled sweet on long car journeys.

I should have said I find it harder with crisps and nuts which are my downfall.

I can quite happily leave cakes, sweets and biscuits alone. Never eat puddings.
crisps and nuts and cheese on the other hand……. I wouldn’t eat a whole big bag/ tin- but I would eat more than I ‘ should’. I am glad I am not a sweet fiend by nature- never really have been.

Yep. Right now I'm sitting in front of an open box of chocolate's I got from work but I've had my two for the evening so that's it. Just waiting for my husband to have his second then they're going back in the cupboard :)

I don't have much of a sweet tooth though. I only need a little taste of sugar to feel satisfied.

*chocolates

No, I can’t. Which is why I’ve not eaten any sweets/cakes/biscuits/chocolate for four months, and I’m never going to eat any ever again.

If I could just eat one, I wouldn’t have had to take such drastic action.

Freeze them! Makes you eat them slower