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.

[Alsohuman]

@Bagpuss, bin them? Do you not have food banks where you live?

[Yogagirl123]

A lot of children’s charity’s are needing Easter Eggs, I sent one into school with my DS, food bank also a great idea, must do that too.

You will only feel sick if you eat them OP!

Don’t ask your DD for permission, I know my DS’ would be a NO! Hands off!

[ValleyoftheHorses]

At 3? Of course - you’re only thinking of her poor precious baby teeth
DS is 6 and I might not get away with it. May melt a load down for rice crispie cakes though.

[jaseyraex]

4 year old DS1 is still eating chocolate coins from Christmas! He has a little bit of chocolate most nights after dinner. I do the same with Easter eggs, they tend to last months. Can't you do that? Just keep them in cupboard or fridge and give her a little every now and then? If they get close to their expiration date though before she's done I'd definitely eat them then

[Cel982]

I eat some of the kids' Easter eggs every year without a bit of guilt. They get loads of chocolate from family, far more than I would be happy for them to eat over the Eadter period (especially the 1yo), and I've no desire or space to have multiple eggs and all their packaging hanging around for months while we dole them out a bit at a time. Neither of them (5 and 1) are precious about which eggs are 'theirs' yet, thank goodness - long may it last.

[IceCreamAndCandyfloss]

I'd just break up,the chocolate and put it in a tub, it will last months with a three year old and can be used for baking etc. Saves buying treats.

[RosamundDarnley]

Bloody hell, as a child we had half an egg a day until they were gone. And that's from a family where we had probably 12 Easter eggs each because of lots of aunties and uncles. We knew it was a once yearly treat, when they were gone no problem. None of this parent scoffing the child's eggs or melting them down for cakes etc. We were allowed to enjoy them, not to whip ourselves and wear sackcloth and ashes as recompense for the fact that people cared enough to give us Easter eggs!

Fucks sake, the nasty bitch who said bin the eggs - You're a whole bundle of fun, aren't you! Nasty cats bum mouthed person who can't stand for children to you know, be children and have fun!

[Alsohuman]

I think I love you @Rosamund.

[mummyofdaughters]

Who are all these people saying no?! I'd eat them in a heartbeat because I have no willpower whilst they're sitting in the cupboard/fridge unopened

[Badwifey]

Jaysus there are some holier than thou parents on today...

Tuck in!

[keepforgettingmyusername]

I'm eating one of my 2 year olds eggs as I read this. Those who are horrified at the theft mustn't realise that they're your kids, you buy them everything they have, and you'll replace the chocolate a thousand times over every time you let them choose something from the shop (that they might not have been allowed to eat if they had 4 month old broken up Easter egg that they don't want at home)

[keepforgettingmyusername]

A thousand times over taking account every time you let them get something from the shop I meant. Not that a tube of smarties is x1000 the cost of an Easter egg, that would be ridiculous.

[cliquewhyohwhy]

Go for it. I'll be helping my kids eat theirs.

[FurrySlipperBoots]

You could maybe donate some of them? Round here there are collections of Easter eggs that go to kids in care. I see that you want to 'help' her with some of them but surely even after that and even after melting some (yummy drizzled over fruit kebabs - she might enjoy making them as an activity, if you chop up a range of fruit and give her a wooden kebab skewer) there'll be more left over than she can work her way through?

[blackteasplease]

I wouldn't. Or certainly not so soon after she has received them. I might eat a little bit here and there once she'd started the particular egg, or melt them into rice krispie cakes together but not scoff whole eggs as soon as she receives them.

[megletthesecond]

Yanbu.
That's part of the deal when you have pre-schoolers.

[Wheelerdeeler]

Of course you can. The responses here are hilarious

[StormcloakNord]

Aye I'd eat them. DD only gets 2 or 3 (if shes lucky) eggs a year. Small family. If she ended up with that many theres no questions I'd be eating some.

Its chocolate ffs not birthday money

[Bluntness100]

I'm of the opinion if you treat your kids with respect from a young age, they will learn that behaviour and treat you with the same back.

And a three year old has an opinion, so ask her, if mummy can have some, if you can share one together.

Because you'd not be happy if she does it to you, when she's a bit older, would you. Just went and took yours. Without asking.

Just because they are little and you pay for them, doesn't mean you get to be a bit shitty to them.

[Stroller15]

I would eat them! I don't see it as theft from a 3 year old or how a child can eat chocolate for 30 days plus by some pp maths.

[IceCreamAndCandyfloss]

Agree Bluntness. It's like posts re children's savings or Christmas money, it's seen as fair game to many to take from children.

[Margot33]

No I wouldn't eat my child's just because I didn't have any! But i would open one when she wanted to, and share with the family. It would be gone by the end of the night! Any left over chocolate can be melted into cornflake cakes with her permission!

[Borntobedifferent]

Treat your child with respect?!? She is 3 and to those saying it's her gift. Ok I'll buy her a knife! That's her gift now too.

She is the mum. The first thing I would do is to out a stop to it for next year, maybe say really appreciated etc but pls no sweets or chocs as she gets so many but if you wish to get her something Easter activity books etc would be great.

Use at least half in baking with her helping.

[Bluntness100]

Ice cream, yes, but what's odd about it, is the same people expect their kids to grow up and ask and not just take from them,

The little girl is three. Teach by example. I'm sure she will say yes. But it's nice to ask if she wants to share, or use her chocolate for cakes etc.

Not just take them and eat them, I'm sure if people wished that they'd have given the op the eggs instead. They are hers. It's just chocolate. So treat her like you'd want her to learn to treat you.

At three they have an opinion.

[BendingSpoons]

DD is 3. I would eat some. She wouldn't remember them all individually. She can then have other things as a treat rather than only being able to eat Easter Eggs for the next 9 months. We would share some too but I allow myself more chocolate in a day than I allow her My local leisure centre are also taking donations so I would drop some off there too. DD will only get 2 so that's not an issue for us.