To eat my daughters Easter eggs and Easter Chocolate?

[ChocolateEverywhere]

DD has got 7 eggs (2 large, 2 med and 3 small) plus the extra packs of sweets/chocolate they come with, a lindt chocolate bunny and a chocolate lolly.

She’s 3 and is going to her dads this weekend where she get yet more chocolate probably another 6-8 eggs (probably med size) from her dads family which will get sent home with her minus the chocolate packs that come inside.

I don’t mind her having a bit of chocolate or a handful of haribo and I’m pleased so many people love her and want to treat her (she has 3 great grandparents and is the only great grandchild on both sides so gets spoilt by them without adding in that she has 5 grandparents and parents who’re separated so buy separately for her and her godparents buy for her as well) but I feel that 13-15 eggs is too much for such a small child.

WIBU to eat the larger chocolate eggs/chocolate and just leave the packs of sweets/chocolate that come from the inside of the eggs? I will be melting some down for cookies/cakes/ice cream sauce over the next week so she’ll get those too, so it’ll just be a bit.

I’ve got no Easter Eggs so feel it’s only fair my DD shares.

[Taylia]

My mum would always steal my chocolate eggs when I was in bed. Same went with Christmas chocolate and pretty much any other treats I had.

I soon learned to hide them in my room and eat them in secret.

Not saying that was fully responsible for my obesity but I’m sure it didn’t help.

[AppleKatie]

My four year old ate about a quarter of his egg yesterday and then said to me later in the day ‘I’ve eaten all my eggs now haven’t I?’

I of course said no of course not, you only had a bit. But if I’d have nonchalantly said yes l, wasn’t it lovely? That would have been the end of it.

The overthinking about all this is staggering.

[SuperMumTum]

My 3, nearly 4, year old has already forgotten about his easter eggs. Just hide them out of view, keep a few packets of buttons etc for treats over the next week and do what you like with the rest (eat, food bank, melt down for cooking). I don't know why anyone would give a 3 year old so much chocolate.

[TheCloserYouGetTheSlowerIGo]

Some of dds are going to food bank. We didnt buy her one as before Easter arrived she'd been given 4 eggs. She now has 19 eggs.. Yes 19. Plus 3x packs of 6 mini milky bar. 2 boxes of kinder sticks. And some of the little. Milky bar shaped things in a barn shape box.
She's only 13m.. We both have huge families. We do request not to get her any if possible. But they say its not fair on her..

She still has 3 tubes of buttons from Xmas. As she was 9m and didnt need choc. I'd put in a cupboard and forgot. They don't have much date so dp will eat them now.

My ds 13 had even more. As he get at his dad's too. Absolute madness.

[Ideatcakeforbreakfast]

I can't see that she'd be overly fussed at 3 if you ate one or two of them for her. I have made a point every year at Easter and Christmas that I didn't want my now 3 year old to get loads of chocolate so people have been very respectful of that and they tend to treat him in other ways. That said he has got a chocolate train from his granny and a Lindt bunny which, even with rationing, will probably last him through the whole of spring and summer!

[LocksMyth]

Donate them to charity or a food bank - spread the love.

[Carblover]

If people don't want their children to eat all their treats xmas or easter they might want to donate the excess chocolate
What about Food banks elderly residential homes or elderly neighbours ...I've given to the local refuge before as no one cares if its a day or too after the event... chocolate is chocolate

[FriarTuck]

I’ve got no Easter Eggs so feel it’s only fair my DD shares.
I can't believe that an adult actually feels hard done by about having no Easter eggs
Teach your daughter that food actually does last if you leave it in the cupboard and encourage good manners by suggesting she shares a bit with you (if you're so desperate )

[SittinOnThaToilet]

Can't believe how worked up and invested people can get over such a trivial matter.

[Isitweekendyet]

That lindt chocolate wouldn’t have lasted the night in our house... DS got ten last year, he opened 6 maybe and finished about two?

Easter bunny came back for the rest...

[Sirrah]

I thought it was compulsory!

[Candycandle]

Nope, I eat the ones they don’t want. I’ve got to maintain my figure.

[Nutellalovesme]

YANBU. Eat the chocolate or give some away. Some people on here saying "bin them" Seriously?! What a waste

[ooooohbetty]

Yanbu. I always 'helped' my children eat theirs. I thought everyone did. No way would I have let them eat lots of eggs themselves. Far too much for children.

[NarcissistMum]

My Mum invented that slab chocolate they sell in hotel chocolat! I have two sisters, and if we had ten eggs each from grandparents/godparents/aunts etc. So 30 + egg boxes to store. She melted all the chocolate down from the eggs into a lined Swiss roll tin, then sprinkled it with all the sweets - smarties, jelly tots, smashed crunchies etc. (This was the 70’s) it was then easy to break into manageable pieces that we could have on a Saturday watching the Generation game. And it was shared with Mum and Dad too.

[Frizzy1986]

We'd still have Easter chocolate from last year if we hadn't assisted in eating some.
Dd (she is 5) gets tonnes of chocolate at christmas, we work full time so there isn't time in the week for her to have any and weekends she gets a little bit, but not much and only if she has behaved well and eaten all her tea nicely. Therefore we still have Santa chocolates, chocolate coins, Haribo, lollies. Basically a celebration tub that is full and Easter items are already arriving.

Now granted we don't eat much of it, maybe a fun size bar of something here and there so we won't be planning on eating entire eggs, but we might sneak a piece or 2 if we are desperate for a pick me up and only once she has already cracked into them.
I'm pretty sure she's still going to grow up to be a respectful, kind and caring person as she's bloody lovely already and if a bit of chocolate is going to change that then there are much bigger things I should be worrying about.

[Planetian]

JeffreyBeaver

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[turnaroundbrighteyes]

I'd maybe ask to share bits of opened ones, but I wouldn't take any.

I would look at ground rules going forward though. Why are any of them buying a big egg for such a young child? Are they all getting sweets too? Could you ban sweets until she's finished the eggs then maybe say a small bag once a month max?

[AppleKatie]

Bloody hell DM this must be the definition of #notnews surely? Slow news day or what 🙄

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Food bank. Or the local homeless shelter. DD has done this so much that she separates her own chocolate into 'things I like' and 'for the homeless children'.

[WorraLiberty]

Loving some of the Daily Mail comments

"Yep I am with her I always eat loads of my daughters"

Makes a change from chocolate eggs I suppose...

[edwinbear]

Can the DM really not find any news to write about?

[duckduckgoose2]

ha I've polished off surplus for the last 7 years - my DD was sick all over the floor when she was 3 because she ate most of one of the large kinder eggs her granny sent and it was far too much for her.

[Thesnobbymiddleclassone]

I would break all the chocolate up into one container to go in the fridge and let her have some at a small pace.

[LaurieMarlow]

And the journos complain they aren’t paid enough for their cut and paste skills