Giving Easter eggs to nieces and nephews

[Amber76]

My dd is 4 at Easter and we're doing an afternoon party for her. It will mainly be her cousins (about 12 or so). I was going to give them each an Easter egg when they left the party. I would always have given all nieces and nephews an Easter egg in the past.
Saw sil earlier and she said not to give her 3 kids Easter eggs as she doesn't want them eating that much chocolate - fair enough.
Now it would seem mean to give others eggs and not those three kids.
Any ideas for suitable alternatives? Budget fairly low which was why choc eggs were perfect.

plastic eggs with something else inside?

I would just give the other children the eggs and let her deal with the fall out from her children!
People like this give me the pip! Make work for others so they don't have to be the bad guy to their children.

My children would be allowed to have the eggs but not eat them all at once, yes this is a pain for me having to say no if they have had a load of chocolate that day already, but it is my job.

I would also say a genuine thank you to the giver of the egg as it was kind of them to think of my children.

Hope she has a lovely party.

Kinder eggs. Abit if chocolate but lots of fun

Do you have a Tiger shop anywhere near you? Because they have all sorts of very cheap easter things in right now.

Buy eggs for all the children, including you SIL's three, and you've got enough to hand to deal with the fall out if there are problems in they're not getting one. They're cheap enough and you can eat the three left over if they're not needed. Alternatively, a bag of Jellie Bunnies will do the trick.

Easter cookies. Or a tiny easter choc bar from Lakeland ...they do gorgeous ones.

Yep kinder egg each. Small enough that sil will have to just cope with it, and toy inside. £1 for x3 atm. So less than £5 for enough for everyone plus spare

Just put them in a plastic bag and give them to the parents who are allowing their kids eggs, as they are leaving. The mum has probably told the children they aren't getting a tonne of chocolate at Easter anyway. It does get silly. I ask my family not to get dd eggs and let the il's get eggs. If they want to get her something instead, fine. If not, that's fine too. DD isn't bothered, as if there is any left after easter, she wouldn't even know. I ended up chucking a load away last year. Seemed such a waste. She had a bit of one egg, fancied trying another etc., then they sat in the fridge for weeks.

I really don't see the point of easter eggs - and my brothers have started giving my pfb chocolate now for easter - Too late for me to fob it off this year but next year deffo a "No chocolate please" message - if they really feel the need to give a gift then a couple of quid for their piggy bank that can be put towards a nice book would be far more appropriate

Pbwer the point is that it's nice! And at Easter it's pretty as well as nice.

Why wouldn't you want your child to eat chocolate now and then?

Surely as adults parents are capable of controlling their child's intake of chocolate?

They don't expire straight away, and just because they CAN be eaten in one doesn't mean they should.

Even my parents (who are stricter than strict) got me and my brother an egg at Easter but we were given a bit at a time over a period of a few weeks.

A few alternative ideas here - clockwork chicks & bunnies, Easter egg bubbles, bunny ears etc.

I would but them anyway. My two dc's get given lots of easter eggs from relatives so we don't bother to buy them one from us and it's not like they have to eat them all at once

MrsFlannel

must have missed that on the RDA labels.. :S

Nevertheless it isn't the chocolate that is necessarily the bad thing, rather the expectation that I should be grateful for a gift marking an event which means precisely diddlysquat to me.

Poundland home bargains etc have easter crafts, eggs to paint and so on. If it's just the chocolate she objects to HB also had egg shaped tins with mallows in for about 79p.

Tbh I'd do as suggested and buy eggs for everyone anyway and just offer them to the parents rather than the children. That way, the parents can decide whether or not they want to accept them or not and eat them themselves if they don't want their dc to eat them.

As a child I remember getting loads of eggs and my mum used to rationalize them so we had either one small egg, or half a large one, every day/every other day. They lasted weeks.

It's the parents' job to teach their children that chocolate, as part of a relatively balanced and healthy diet, isn't a big problem.

I really don't get this idea of refusing chocolate and banning it; imo that's just storing up problems for later on when they have their own money (pocket money for example) and can go to the shop and buy all the chocolate they can afford.

I heard it was better for your teeth if you do eat them all at once.

To be honest I agree with your sil. They will already have loads of chocolate. Could you do something like egg painting and they could take them home instead?

Once you add up all the potential sources of eggs at Easter, you can have loads. So I totally understand this.
One Easter my 3 yo DD got 12 Easter eggs. And she didn't even like chocolate at the time (she loves it now was an odd phase!). Those who ask in advance are asked to get something else if they have to bring something. Bubbles are always good!

Unfair of your SIL to pass the responsibility of restricting her children's chocolate consumption onto you but there are plenty of alternative Easter presents - print off some Easter related drawings and a small pack of crayons?

My daughter still has an Easter Egg in the fridge from last Easter and is resisting all efforts to turn it into chocolate buns before she gets more at school on Friday !

Easter craft sets seem to be in good supply at the moment. Or a sticker book.

I think SIL is being sensible, but it is a bit cheeky of her to ask, imo.

My mum is giving my dc money this year...which I am going to go out and use to buy Easter eggs because, and this is the funny part, it's Easter!
My dc will stuff their faces until they are sick for a few days but then that's it, it's gone and any left over dh & I will polish off

Poundland sticker book or puzzle book!

I would have been gutted as a child if I hadn't received at least six Easter eggs! I know they would have been rationed by my parents (they probably lasted us weeks) but it's an Easter tradition - I really can't see the problem with it. I'm pretty careful how much sugar my young DCs consume, but I wouldn't want to deprive them of the thrill I received from seeing so much chocolate at the same time.

Also, as nobody buys any for me now, I scoff at least half of theirs.

kinder eggs perfect.