AIBU to think that children should be able to eat large chocholate bunnies at easter??

[cabbagesoup]

I've just got back from the supermarket and purchased a large choccie bunny of the gold variety - not the supersize £35 quid size one just a smaller version - so its on the belt ready to pay and a lady with an approx 4 year old came up and stated putting her stuff on the belt behind.

The little very girls says "Wow mummy look at that bunny" to which the mum said "yes darling, lovely, now you know your only only to get very little eggs and you have to hunt for yours, that's just a ridiculous sized bunny" to which the little girl looked sad and said "yes mummy that's ridiculous" and then she kept eyeing it up the whole time - she looked so sad

I felt like paying for the blumming thing and giving it to her!!

This wasn't by the way a case of them in no way being able to afford the rabbit - just having a nosy sweep of their shopping, I just thought it was a bit mean to make the girl think that it was silly!

I maybe would of said to my DS if he had commented "Wow yes that's cool, some lucky person is going to get it" not pointed out it wasn't them!

Fgs sake just because a child eats one giant egg/bunny doesnt mean they are guna suddenly become obese!!!
My kids are all skin and bones and eat a healthy diet with moderate junk food as kids should be allowed to be kids.
Its all about moderation-one giant bunny isnt going to harm a normal sized child.
Why should everyone have to suffer because others eat TOO much

Well good for you Seahorses

However, some mums netter's statistically must have obese kids mustn't they?

Lets hope they're not the ones buying the massive eggs and saying "well it never did me any harm"

Everything in moderation I think. A little indulgence doesn't do any harm but massive indulgence I'm afraid is not a treat, it can only be a negative thing for children.

It's not so much that children will get fat from an oversized pile of Easter eggs but the fact that gigantic quantities are being shown to be acceptable.
Isn't that the problem many overweight adults have?

Rude, rude mother and she's teaching her DD to be equally rude and bitchy as she grows up. Poor kid - a few treats along the way make life fun and teach kids that everything is good in moderation. I think her teenage DD may have some serious rebelling planned.

FWIW I don't give my kids huge eggs because they get hyper and we end up with tears and fighting. I hide some little ones in the garden and get them a non-edible present -a- -feckin- -awful- -Barbi- -plastic- -car- also. We have a cakes/buns or chocolate treat about once or twice a week. They are fit, healthy and slim.

So the strike out font would be then

"Fgs sake just because a child eats one giant egg/bunny doesnt mean they are guna suddenly become obese!!! "

Maybe not but like most food that is marketed to us, portions have become bigger and bigger and in line with weight increases.

The OP was saying the girl looked sad because she couldn't have a giant egg and the way it was written implies that the mother was mean not letting her. If you advocate each to their own then let the mother who doesn't want to feed her child inordinate amounts of chocolate do that without being told she is mean.

Not nice to comment critically & aloud on your shopping.
Not nice to assume that the other child is deprived.

HC, surely by definition eating a large chocolate bunny once a year is everything in moderation? I seriously doubt that eating chocolate at Easter makes any significant contribution to obesity rates. It is people's everyday habits, not occasional seasonal treats.

The woman that commented on OP's shopping was rude.

And a chocolate egg or bunny is not a 'portion size.' How can it possibly be? It isn't part of a meal. Is there a government recommended amount of chocolate egg people should be consuming? It is obviously meant to be a seasonal treat. The clue is in the name: Easter bunny, Easter egg.

wow thanks for all of this!! I agree on the point about moderation, my children are like rakes - they eat a balanced diet and at easter balance includes a bunny!! which BTW is for sharing between 2 of them! (and me!)

Loving that CheerMum arranged bunnies, waiting for comments, how funny - if we'd been in the same supermarket I would of spotted you!

Maybe my post is a tad smug - it was written while I was thinking "how rude" - and I think you tend to make assumptions. Yes I do actually think the mum was mean, not for denying her girl the chance to even look at bunny (that's her choice) but denying the girl the right to make her own mind up as to what she thought about the bunny - she wasn't allowed her own opinion?? she just repeated her mum.

My boys have their own opinions on life and they would of said "Cool!!" and they will say "thanks mum that's a awesome bunny" as the word Awesome seems to be the word of the month.

Happy easter everyone. I'm signing off else when on the laptop I start doing "work"

It is people's everyday habits, not occasional seasonal treats

Very true. Easter is a time for chocolate and if you restrict it you are going to have DCs who can't regulate their diet for themselves later.
I agree with cabbagesoup and think the worst of it was that the DD had to mirror her mother's opinion when she clearly didn't.

I was thinking of you today, OP, when I was shopping. Mother with 2 small boys - they had found the smarties hen houses - her reaction was "yes, they are really cool - there is loads of cool Easter stuff, isn't there? Now, what else do we need?" Textbook, IMHO.

happy easter - me I've very excited about getting my Nestle egg my DS has just told me that daddy bought me, love them... [bugrin]

Happy Easter cabbagesoup! We are looking forward to chocolate eggs of various sizes for our Easter Egg hunt (if the rain allows) and we will enjoy all chocolate animals or similar confectionery sculptures. Lots of happy guests all round. [busmile]

YANBU. We eat healthily with the occasional treat and today certainly warrants a chocolate feast!

She definitely shouldn't have commented on your shopping and should stick an egg where the sun don't shine

She wasn't just insulting the size of your bunny, she was also criticising you for not making your children hunt for their eggs. Clearly a stealth boast that her child can hunt for eggs better than your child [bugrin]

I take it the bunny was the Lindt one because if it is and the child may be coeliac she wouldn't be able to eat it, one of the safest eggs this year is actually the cadburys mini eggs so YABU as you don't always know the facts.

The other woman was rude.

And there is no excuse for rudeness not allergies not anything.

Lordy - if she can't say no to her child without resorting to being rude about someone else - well honestly . . . .

Sorry just reporting in - hubbie has eaten bunnies bottom end and due to large amounts of cadburys arriving via grandparents - I'm proud to report on route to grannies house we had our first "Pass the bag" incident at 11.30 am easter morning...Joy.. DS1 was fully recovered over large easter lunch and back to choccie eating by the afternoon.

Just read your title as "children should be easier to eat than large chocolate bunnies"

Based on that Yabu. Bunnies melt in the mouth. Children are stringier.