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AIBU?

To think one Easter egg a child is enough

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brexitstolemyfuture · 13/04/2017 08:26

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.

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starzzzz · 13/04/2017 09:45

YANBU. Mine have one.

Underparmummy · 13/04/2017 09:47

I don't buy mine chocolate as they get so much, they have an 'easter present' instead.

My dentist yesterday said either a. get it all eaten straight away in a few days (mega binge!)or b. have bits after meals for the next few months. No regular chocolate between meals snacking is the dentist message!

I think worrying that one easter blow out will give them diabetes or cancer is slightly over the top.

SerialReJoiner · 13/04/2017 09:48

My dc will eat everything at once. DD specifically asked for a small egg so she can eat it without feeling sick afterwards.

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 09:50

Just hide them. Give as treats.

JanetBrown2015 · 13/04/2017 09:51

They get one hotel chocolat one each and indeed 1 of the children doesn't want one this year. So I bought 4. They will get none from anyone else . It's more than enough.

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 09:51

And if sugar is so unhealthy and awful, why would you give it to a food bank? Give pasta and soup. Throw the eggs away if you think kids shouldn't be eating them.

Jaxhog · 13/04/2017 09:56

Wow, 10 eggs per child!! I hadn't realised it was getting this bad. I'll get something else for the nephews this year.

Wincarnis · 13/04/2017 09:56

Chocolate freezes well.... or break them into bits and use them for making cakes....or just eat them, it's only once a year!

user1469095927 · 13/04/2017 09:57

We also end up with a lot of chocolate over Easter but it gets rationed out when they want a bit of chocolate. Last year we ended up with 12 eggs between 2 kids plus smaller eggs used for an Easter egg hunt in the garden. Just ration them and when it becomes too much melt the chocolate down to make a cake topping/rocky road etc like a previous poster suggested. At least is saves buying any chocolate/sweets for a while!

starzzzz · 13/04/2017 10:00

It's excess though Trifle

Bit of sugar, harmless enough, ten Easter eggs - ridiculous!

TimeIhadaNameChange · 13/04/2017 10:04

winewolfhowls Don't worry, despite having bought myself a Hotel Chocolat egg I'm fully intending to stock up in their sale!

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 10:06

starzzzz:

I still think it smacks a bit of noblesse oblige

Youdontwanttodothat · 13/04/2017 10:07

It's the getting them rather than the eating them. Lining them up. Looking at the shininess. Eating rarely happens for ours. They go in the outside fridge until DH or I gets rid of them. The better quality choc maybe used for chocolate chips.

moggle · 13/04/2017 10:12

Growing up, my family was a one egg per person household, maybe we would get another from GPs if we were visiting them at Easter.

DH's family is terrible though. Everyone buys everyone else an egg. There's 7 adults and 3 kids. DH and his two brothers are all overweight, DNiece age 5 has poor enamel on her teeth and isn't supposed to eat too much sugary treats, DD is only 2 and has a terrible sweet tooth and I don't want to get her used to the idea of having sweets every day (yet). Dniece just 1 yr old is too young to eat much. As well as big eggs for everyone from everyone, DMil does an egg hunt for the littles and they all get tons of little eggs too.
We're away with them next week and to save space in the car SIL asked if she could just add all the eggs they were going to buy for everyone to the Tesco order we're doing for the week!!! I just don't see the point of this!! Sure if you're going to go out and choose eggs for everyone... but 7 people tacking on 7 eggs to the order and then sharing them out... just highlights how meaningless it is!

Anyway this year I decided to bite the bullet and said, please can no-one buy me an egg. DH will buy me one and that's enough. Then surprise surprise once I'd said it, almost everyone else decided actually they didn't want tons of eggs after all and SIL suggested we each went out and spent a few pounds on non-edible easter bits like stickers and fluffy chicks to hide in the egg hunt eggs instead of choc.

MIL is terrible at over buying crap at all occasions so I'm hoping I'll have the courage to do this again at Christmas to try and reduce the literal bin bags which are our 'stockings' every year and filled with utter shit like cheap nasty gardening gloves from the pound shop (I had THREE pairs in my 'stocking' this year), Tesco value toothbrushes (totally 100% true), and little notepads. ARGH it's raising my blood pressure just thinking about it!

FairytalesAreBullshit · 13/04/2017 10:14

We don't really like them eating chocolate because of their teeth, so we always make a big deal how they can have an egg or we can donate double the amount an egg costs to charity. We go for child friendly charities, my DC know about Water Aid, plus charities that help child in Syria, other countries where what we take for granted isn't the norm. I saw a few shops with Eggs for £1, they don't need a big egg really.

It's not everyone's cup of tea, as I'm religious, although faith doesn't have to come into it, Easter is a time before during Lent, giving up things for the purpose of acknowledging there's those who go without. So that's how we bring charity into it.

We don't give something up, we just have a day on Fridays, where we fast, the children are encouraged not to eat meat and to think about children who don't have choices when it comes to food. They eat what they're given.

Usually both DC would have quite a few eggs from elderly friends and neighbours, but most have died in the last year. They're not big on chocolate anyway. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer, most of us are winging this parenting thing. With DH it's about having teeth that are nice as we knew one poor child who had to go to hospital for baby teeth extraction they were that rotten. They would have fizzy pop, sweets, chocolate etc.

I'd say it's entirely your choice.

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 10:18

We were allowed all our Easter eggs growing up. I've never had a filling. As long as you limit sugar consumption the rest of the year, a few days here and there aren't the end of the world. I would prefer to ask family not to buy chocolate, rather than have my DD receive gifts that she then has to watch me give away.

neonrainbow · 13/04/2017 10:28

So those people who are rubbishing the idea of giving extra eggs to disadvantaged children who may not get any eggs at all , are you saying that there is only two options either let your kids pig out on 10 Easter eggs or throw them away?

I didn't say there was anything wrong with a child having one or two eggs. No child needs 10 eggs so what harm does it do to teach them to share with other children who are less fortunate than themselves?

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 10:34

neonrainbow:

I actually have no problem with the giving when it is done in the spirit of sharing and kindness. That's commendable. I do think it should be their choice, however.

What I have a problem with is "Urgh, sugar is so disgusting and unhealthy - let's donate the disgusting, unhealthy food to some poor kids who probably have a shit diet anyway"

ShelaghTurner · 13/04/2017 10:51

My brother and I had eggs lined up across every shelf in the 70s, loads of them each. Yes I have weight problems but that's because of my love of bread and crisps and lack of movement, not the amount of Easter eggs I got!

My kids will get about 5 each and they go mad on Sunday then they're rationed and eaten bit by bit till they're gone. No big deal.

OOAOML · 13/04/2017 11:00

I would have a logistics problem with multiple eggs - we live in a tenement flat, and mice are not frequent but not unknown, so storing large amounts of chocolate would require finding boxes to tuck it into.

RainbowsAndUnicorn · 13/04/2017 11:03

Just save them and spread them out over a few weeks, Giving away gifts that belong to somebody else is mean, if the giver wanted to give to charity rather than a child they obviously love they would have dont that themselves in the first place.

neonrainbow · 13/04/2017 11:13

Oh yeah trifle because that's exactly what i said isn't it?

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peggyundercrackers · 13/04/2017 11:14

where does one find disadvantaged children who don't get £1 easter eggs?

Trifleorbust · 13/04/2017 11:41

neonrainbow:

Where did I say you said that?

PeaFaceMcgee · 13/04/2017 12:22

I don't get all the angst. If you have lots, you ration them - even if they last all year.

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