to throw the sweets away

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My lovely and well meaning neighbours came for lunch this weekend and brought a bag of sweets with them as a present for our girls. By bag, I mean a carrier with 3 packets of 200g (or more) each of various Haribo stuff.

The DDs are 1.5 and 3.3, and aren't really used to sweets, and I don't want them to get used to them either. They get an occasional chocolate button as a treat, DD1 sometimes has a 10p pack of Haribo when given it. DD2 would have chocolate day, noon and night given a chance, and probably other sweets too.

I could open a bag and give them to the DDs a few at a time over the course of weeks, however, I can see them clamouring for more and more. Plus, I am bad at sweets myself, and trying to lose weight. I know that if I opened the bag, I'd probably start eating them myself, no matter how good my intentions were to start with... One or two to start with, then more.

I'm tempted to just throw them away and be done with it, but that feels bad because they were a gift for the girls. What does the MN jury say?

It's up to you what and how your feed your kids

But with regards to your own willpower, that's something you're going to have to work on as your kids will in the future be eating things that don't suit your diet.

Give them to someone else. Don't throw them out.

Option 3, hide in a cupboard until the next dc's birthday party then recycle or you find them melted into a luridly coloured glutinous mass 5 years past their sell by

send them to me!! or save them as an extra christmas pressie for older kids.

Well I would throw them away if I was tempted to overeat them.

Stick them in a high cupboard, write on the calendar for the end of October where you've hidden them and forget about them until Halloween. Perfect for Trick or Treat.

My DS is just 3. I'm happy for him to have some chocolate but in small amounts and he doesn't have gelatine sweets. The sugar rush would be incredible.

If you feel guilty about not giving the girls sweets, get a small bag of buttons or similar for each of them to have a few every couple of days. Your neighbours don't need to know that they've been given other sweet treats "in their name" as it were.

Agree about the willpower thing by the way - you don't want to be one of those mothers who eat their children's easter eggs.

Food isn't a treat that is gor animals. Throw them away but severly restricting sweets makes children crafty and greedy.

Sweets are a treat though Sole

Sweets are a treat for me.

I would bin them, I have the most wonderful neighbours, but despite having conversations numerous times about no sweets or chocolate, they all continue to buy dd easter eggs, random bags of sweets and chocs. They do mean well, whatever they buy for their own grandchildren, they include my dd.
I did have a mini meltdown on sunday dd was playing with neighbours gs, neighbour came out and said I have just made gs a cup of tea, so I made one for dd, I only put one sugar in hers tho!!! I politely but very firmly, put my point across on that one!! p.s DD is 2.

I'd definitely throw them, maybe keep a few but get rid if the rest. Or if you know someone who works in an office, send them there. Work places are a great way to pass on unwanted goodies. I regularly send stuff like that to work with my DH. They rarely last more than a few hrs.

I particularly hate lollipops. My kids manage to make them last ages and all I can think of is the sugar washing around their teeth. I discretely rob them out of party bags and throw them out. I'm so mean

I would keep one pack to ration out over the coming days (weeks?) and pass the rest along to a friend.

.Ive done the same when my son has been given hard boiled sweets or anything like that, i just accept it say thank you, either eat it myself or throw them in the bin.

Throw them in the bin.

I throw sweet and biscuits away. Even ones I've been given.

Actually I finally threw away the remaining half of the hamper my sister sent DH and I for Christmas. She lives on the other side of the world, so I understand that an Amazon hamper is the easy option, but it showed absolutely no thought. She sent something similar 2 years before and I had asked for her not to send us stuff like that again. It's a waste of her money, and while I'm grateful for the gift, I can't appreciate something that ultimately 80% ends up in the bin.

I have also been known to chuck stuff I have bought myself.

And people who think gifts of sweets for small children is alright, need to be slapped frankly. We don't pump our kids full of shit, so why would I let someone else do so?

I should point out, when we are given things we don't want, we do politely say thank you etc! and leave the binning/redistributing til later.

Save them for a family party if you (quite reasonably) don't want them eating that many in one go.

But some of you need to loosen up the bumcheeks a tad A chocolate button? Seriously?

I think a fine balance needs to be found regarding kids and sweets

Blanket banning anything or restricting sugar too much will only make them crave the 'forbidden' when they're old enough to be away from their parents.

I think moderation and self discipline are probably the two greatest things we can teach our kids to take through life.

Give them to someone else. It's a terrible waste to throw things away like that. Someone will eat them.

Can't you give them away? I hate throwing food in the bin.

"A chocolate button as a treat" Jeesus you'd all drop dead if you saw that my daughter had a bag of chocolate buttons maybe 3-4 times a week!

The idea of keeping for trick or treaters is a really goo - but me? I'd just eat them myself - wouldn't want my kids to get rotten teeth

Talking of sweets, I bought my dd a sherbet dip dab the other day, and she hated it! They were a highlight of my childhood, I felt a bit sad dd didn't share my joy.

Post them to me :)

You'd give a 1.5 yo 3 bags of chocolate buttons a week?

I wouldn't. Only one of them has turned into a sugar craving freak.