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.

[Nanny0gg]

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

The ones whose parents use a food bank?

If you don't want your children to have lots that's fine. But don't just take them away, discuss and donate.

The teeth argument is nonsense though. You can eat chocolate and then clean them surely?

[CarpetBagger]

I think it depends what sugar and choclate is like at other times of year and day to day. If they have a good diet with good food in general a few eggs at easter is going to do diddly squat to their health.

However we dont have big family buying for them. Mil goes mad as if we dont buy eggs for them however.

Because of this I have scaled back this year and brought them small gifts instead, DD 10 Lego game for box and DD 5 Belle dress up dress, they will get one lindt selection pack from me each, one smarties egg each and one haribo sweet pack each, and a small kinder egg each.

Their diet is excellent usually, they are both very slim fit and move lots.

[CarpetBagger]

Food bank is excellent idea however - thanks for reminding me! will buy some anyway for it.

[ohtheholidays]

Our 5DC will probably end up with about 5-6 meidum to large eggs and a bag full of sweets from the Easter egg hunt each.

Luckily my DH's family send the DC money for Easter and we usually buy them some non Foodie presents for Easter and take them for a nice day out as well.

Otherwise they'd no doubt end up with between 15 and 20 Easter eggs each and I could not bare the thought of having 100 Easter eggs in the house.

[ArcheryAnnie]

Can't lie, DS has already eaten his weight in mini-eggs, as I'll often buy him a small bag if I go to the supermarket. That, or one of the teeny lindt bunnies for 50p. He's a lanky, active teenager so I have no issues with his health re weight. He's very good at regulating his own intake, too.

I've got him a chocolate dinosaur for actual easter, because DINSOSAUR.

Sending the excess eggs to the foodbank is a lovely thing to do, but do it today if you are going to do it, so it can get to families in time. I can promise you that nothing makes you feel poorer than getting seasonal goodies given to you way after the date.

[FairytalesAreBullshit]

I don't see the point of Easter Eggs. I get the hypothetical symbolism, but I don't understand what I gained as a child or adult getting them.

Trifle I don't know if I've misunderstood, but are you asserting that your 6 month old baby will be traumatised, being bought Eggs that if you were another parent, plus that way inclined, you would donate to a food shelter?

Dismissing the teeth argument then, if your DC were lucky enough to have 10 eggs, for some of you, it wouldn't even enter your thoughts, there's children or a person somewhere with no eggs that my child could donate to?

It's not the no eggs thing that's the issue, it's the fact that for children living in poverty, or even a disadvantaged adult, receiving an egg would likely make their day. We're talking children where it's Easter and they get nothing at all, where friends have presents or a load of eggs. They're going to feel pretty shitty.

[caitlinohara]

Rationing out Easter eggs for months on end to otherwise healthy kids is way too controlling imo and needlessly makes an issue out of what is supposed to be a treat. I agree with others that it's better to just get them eaten than having them in the cupboard for weeks.

[peggyundercrackers]

if your DC were lucky enough to have 10 eggs, for some of you, it wouldn't even enter your thoughts, there's children or a person somewhere with no eggs that my child could donate to?

no it wouldn't enter my thoughts - what I would think though is they are lucky to have such loving family and friends around them that want to make them feel happy and loved by giving them gifts.

[SetPhasersTaeMalkie]

10 is a lot. My local Tesco has a trolley at the door for donating Easter eggs. Could you do something like that? DS is a teenager but still gets quite a few, 5 at the last count. He will eat 2 enthusiastically and then he's usually done. I don't have an issue with it once a year.

[ellencherry]

Yanbu

It's not just the eggs.

At school mine has made chocolate nests filled with mini eggs, chocolate hot cross buns and then did an Easter egg hunt with loads of little chocolate eggs and some medium sized ones

Then her bloody ballet group and gymnastics both have each child an egg.

I've got her a tiny one for ester Sunday but have been given one half her size by her gran.

It's so cheap at the moment people get loads in poundland even in tesco they are cheap enough then it's buy one get one free they're cheaper now then when I was a child in the 1980s!!!

[WorraLiberty]

We've only just finished Christmas chocolate and I expect Easter chocolate to last until Aug/Sept. Just because they have then it doesn't mean they have to eat them all at once.

Same here.

I think kids will just learn to binge eat if they think their parents are going to give their Easter eggs away.

[TittyGolightly]

Because of this I have scaled back this year and brought them small gifts instead, DD 10 Lego game for box and DD 5 Belle dress up dress, they will get one lindt selection pack from me each, one smarties egg each and one haribo sweet pack each, and a small kinder egg each.

That's scaled back?!

[metalmum15]

Why can't you just leave them in the cupboard and let them have a bit every time they fancy some chocolate? They'll last for months. We still have chocolate tubes left over from Christmas. I always have chocolate of some description in the house anyway so while there's Easter chocolate left I won't be buying any from the supermarket. My dc have had 2 eggs each and a couple of packs of mini eggs (gps always buy so I don't )

Perhaps if you feel it's too much, next year you could ask some relatives to give money and your dc could treat themselves to something they like that would last longer than chocolate.

[metalmum15]

Why can't you just leave them in the cupboard and let them have a bit every time they fancy some chocolate? They'll last for months. We still have chocolate tubes left over from Christmas. I always have chocolate of some description in the house anyway so while there's Easter chocolate left I won't be buying any from the supermarket. My dc have had 2 eggs each and a couple of packs of mini eggs (gps always buy so I don't )

Perhaps if you feel it's too much, next year you could ask some relatives to give money and your dc could treat themselves to something they like that would last longer than chocolate.

[glumbumm]

I'm a have wonderful memories of waking up on Easter morning to a pile of Easter eggs! There was probably about 6 each, we were healthy kids.

[CarpetBagger]

Yes titty very much so, thats 2 eggs each, one small lindt bunny each and some small bug chocs and some sweets

[TittyGolightly]

Plus Lego and dressing up. It's like a second Xmas. (We don't even do that.)

[starzzzz]

It's an interesting thread. I think I am inclined to agree that it does no harm but just the same it's encouraging greed and gluttony which I don't think we want really.

[PinguForPresident]

YANBU

I get my kids a small egg each, a net of chocolate coins (my 5y/o son is FURIOUS that chocolate coins aren't a year round thing, after discovering them last Xmas) and a little present - book for 8y/o, toy dinosaur for 5y/o.

The PIL sent them a tenner eac, so we went to the toy shop today and they bought themselves something each.

We go to friends for an egg hunt each year, so they'll get handful of titchy eggs (wrapped mini egg type things) which they'll scoff straight away becasue it's half the fun of the hunt.

If my kids were given stacks of eggs then yes, I'd talk to them about donating some to the foodbank, or the specific egg collections for disadvantaged kids that happen locally. We donate to the foodbank every time we go shopping, and they've bought tins etc with their pocket money before now, so I doubt they'd have much trouble giving away an excess egg of 2.

[trixymalixy]

We still haven't got through the Christmas chocolate yet either.

I usually end up using some of the easter eggs to make DD's birthday cake in august as they just sit there otherwise. They usually get about 6.

[Livelovebehappy]

I read somewhere that it's best to let them binge on the chocolate over a few days, rather than spread it out over a few weeks, as the potential damage to your teeth and weight is a lot less by getting it all out of the way quickly.

[monkeytoad35]

Using up left over easter eggs to make cakes is a good idea

[Trifleorbust]

FairytalesAreBullshit:

Huh? Where did I say that?

[caitlinohara]

glum me too. And I have never been overweight in my life. OP do what you feel is best by all means, but I don't think that rationing treats is any guarantee that your kids will grow up able to self regulate their sugar intake, if that's your goal here. Sometimes it's better to learn the hard way that eating half a dozen eggs will make you feel grim, or that watching telly all day makes you grumpy, or indeed that mixing gin + beer + wine will give you an evil hangover. It is the same principle, no?