To think one Easter egg a child is enough

[brexitstolemyfuture]

I'm not a total killjoy, but i want to limit their intake to one over Easter and give away the others.

Even just one contains 16 tea spoons of sugar! Seeing as sugar is linked to diabetes, obesity and cancer i do want to limit it. They've been given 8 eggs each so far, with at least two more to come over the weekend. It's just too much imo.

[HoldBackTheRain]

We used to get this amount as kids and ate them probably at the rate of 1 a day til they were gone. Except my eldest sister who would still have at least one left over by June, the cravings me & my other sister would get seeing it there

But if i think about it giving some to a food bank is a good idea - when you have that amount you wont miss a few and someone else will get pleasure out of them to.

[Nan0second]

We do small Easter gifts instead of eggs for extended family kids. A book or a puzzle or an item of clothing.
They still receive chocolate but 2-3 eggs rather than 6-8!

[lbsjob87]

Spread Yes, this!!
When I was about 7, my birthday was on Easter Sunday. I had a party the day before and genuinely got 32 Easter eggs and only two actual presents.
I don't mean 32 big ones, but I distinctly remember opening 4 of those Creme Egg six packs for starters.
They are the shittest birthday present for a child - as if you would give someone with a Christmas birthday a box of mince pies?!

Anyway, for what it's worth, I think kids should only really get eggs from maybe parents/guardians and gps who can't resist, and only if the parents think it's OK.
MY MiL tends to get my DCs a small toy or similar - this year they are getting a new plate and bowl set (2yo) and a DVD (7yo) but they already have 3 each from other relatives, plus DD had one from school and one from Brownies, plus they will get two on Sunday, from us and my parents.

We ration it - we're still on Halloween and Christmas sweets in this house. I only buy sweets/etc if there is none in the house already.

Plus they forget about it after a week, so sometimes we eat what's left....

[AddictedtoSnickers]

We don't do the big ones at all not even for us, I let my DM and MIL know that if they want to treat the DC then I'd rather them spend money on a little Easter craft / or colouring book. We do a few hunts in the garden and allotment with the little foil eggs and ration them over the Easter weekend. They are always delighted and I can't see why they need big whopping chocolate eggs too when they are too young to care (all under 7). Will be a different story when they get older unfortunately...l

[ElsieMc]

In the past my gs's have been given lots of eggs, some from people who did not have a lot of money to spare. They did not appreciate them at all.

This year I have bought them one v large Cadbury's Crème Egg and some relatives will buy one or two others. My youngest gs in particular was over the moon with his believe it or not.

I have bought my other two younger gs's Lindt animal sets which are lovely and my own girls larger Lindt bunnies. Even on this modest basis, it cost me over £40 and some were on offer.

The only person who hasn't got one is me!

[Ragwort]

Where would you give the Eggs away to? Don't want to sound ungracious but I volunteer at a Food Bank and we are still getting through the mountains of chocolates we were given at Christmas (and afterwards when everyone goes on a 'detox' ). Last year we were inundated with Easter Eggs - in the end we used loads for making cakes etc but even then there were too many. This year we don't seem to have so many but perhaps they will all come in after Easter .

[SaorAlbaGuBrath]

We bought little chocolate treat boxes for ours this year, in previous years the chocolate eggs have ended up just lying around because they don't eat them. I know they'll get from grandparents, aunties and uncles too so it seemed more sensible to just get them a box of treats each and let the eggs come from family.

[ShitIForgotToUntick]

Our family all give each others kids eggs so DS does end up with a few but tbh they end up sitting in cupboards and mostly go uneaten. I've not long chucked out some from last year along with some chocolate coins and Santas!

[Laiste]

When i was a kid i got loads of eggs. When my older 3 were little we got loads and bloody loads of eggs! If there had been food banks in those days (late 90s early 20s) i'd have gladly taken some there.

These days (with little DD4) most friends/relatives say something along the lines of i know DCs don't need even more choc so do you want money or a toy instead? I usually say yes to them all for money or a toy and DH and i will buy her an egg or choc bunny and that's plenty!

[TimeIhadaNameChange]

I probably had that number as a child and luckily my mum kept them. But I never gorged on them, they'd simply last me ages. I mind one year I finished my last one just before Christmas, then got one as a birthday present in February, with Easter the following month. I thought it was great!

TBH I'm still like that. Have a box of chocolates left from the year before last, and am trying to finish off last year's Advent Calendar before Sunday (but it's a struggle).

I think my point is to leave them, and let them self regulate (with assistance if necessary). If you give them away you may find they're more likely to gorge when older as they don't trust that any chocolate they have will be kept if they don't eat it immediately.

[Flanderspigeonmurderer]

I just buy the smallest egg I can find for mine. Luckily our family don't live close by so he tends not to get given anything else. We may do an egg hunt too.

[Notso]

I have four children who get around 12 eggs each from family, godparents and church.
After the initial checking and swapping as one hates shaped food eg chocolate rabbit and although one has nut/peanut allergy nobody in the family bothers to check packaging they eat some everyday until back to school. Then DH usually starts munching his way through the left overs.

[SpreadYourHappiness]

lbsjob87 Yeah, it's really thoughtless. They couldn't be bothered to think of an actual present so just grabbed an Easter Egg because they happened to be everywhere at the time.

If you want to buy a kid an Easter Egg, by all means go ahead. But never buy a kid an Easter Egg as their fucking birthday present.

[winewolfhowls]

Just me that can eat all the eggs in the world then?
I actually go egg shopping after Easter and buy the reduced posh ones and stuff my face.
My sons get three small ones altogether and an egg hunt party.

[RightOnTheEdge]

My Dcs get far too much chocolate for Christmas and Easter.
I usually let them eat what they want but then they lose interest.
After a while I melt it all together and we make chocolate crispy buns which usually get eaten quickly by all of us.

[GrumpyOldBag]

YANBU!

Now mine are teenagers I send them to the shop to buy their own 'snacks" and they've been coming back with Easter eggs.

Makes me fume - why can't they wait until Easter and see what they get given?!!

[Libitina]

We used to get DS a book at Easter and ask for book tokens rather than eggs. Still ended up with a couple of eggs, but it wasn't too bad.

[OOAOML]

When I was growing up it was always one egg from parents and that was it - when I had children I wondered if it was a modern thing that people got loads of eggs, but I suppose it is just different people doing things differently. I think all the multi-buy offers promote it as well.

[neonrainbow]

But what more pleasure will they get out of 10 eggs that they can't get from 2? You're just teaching them its ok to gorge on chocolate at certain times of the year.

[BeyondThePage]

mine have 3 and that is too much, but to be fair they are the "large" sized ones with 2 chocolate bars inside. They make flapjacks, crispy cakes, chocolate fudge etc. spreads it out and gives a bit of a change from "ooooo... more chocolate..."

[GetAHaircutCarl]

Mine get loads because we have a huge extended family who all give.

They've always just eaten them a bit at a time since they were toddlers.

Now they're almost adults with no health or weight or teeth or skin issues. Not been a problem for us.

[SerialReJoiner]

But chocolate isn't a once a year treat though, is it? As much as I try to stop it, my dc are plied with crap on a regular basis - at school, friends' houses, clubs, church, etc etc. Everyone says it's just a little treat, but that soon becomes the norm.

I had to laugh (bitterly) when the school sent letters home asking families to commit to reducing sugar intake during the month of April by skipping sugary drinks. The birthday sweet cones and cake stalls get a pass, though?!

[brexitstolemyfuture]

underneaththeash - well done for recognising there is a weight issue. Half of the primary school children i see are overweight and 99% parents are in total denial.

I don't want them hanging around for 3 months, sugar is very unhealthy but i don't mind a bit too much this weekend. But not ongoing, by the time the Easter chocolate is gone it will be something else.

[TittyGolightly]

We have 2 eggs left from last year (she only got 4!) and one from the year before that. Goodness knows when the 6 she came home with last weekend will get used up!

[smilingsarahb]

We make em last ages. Just break them to bits and use until Christmas time basically. Also melt and turn onto crispier cakes for the school fair.