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.

[Galaxy88]

I've eaten and replaced 2 already. My dd is 9, so she was fuming

[PrincessTiggerlily]

a three year old is less than half the height of an adult - so a comparable egg for an adult is over twice the size of the child's egg, say 24 cm. Just imagine sitting down to several of those. Even spread over several days its just too much.

[Hopeygoflightly]

That's an obscene amount of chocolate and treats for any child. My DC's have one egg each and a cuddly Easter toy and a Easter themed mug. I would get rid of some of them, straight in the bin, a 3 year old won't notice. On Halloween we eke out the sweets they collected and throw half away after a week, kids 9 & 7 don't notice or care.
The things you do now make habits for when your DC is older - be strict now and she won't expect a ton of chocolate or treats when older . Our kids aren't expecting half a dozen eggs each because they've never ahd more than 1 or 2 each.

[Shazafied]

My 16mo got an egg from her CM - I let her have a couple of little bits after tea the last 2 days but ate the rest - I’m very pregnant and needed the sugar, plus it’s bad for her and she has no idea she was even given the egg in the first place!

[WorraLiberty]

I've eaten and replaced 2 already. My dd is 9, so she was fuming

Why did you do it? Also, why did you do it without asking her?

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

I wouldn’t as they are gifts. Go and buy yourself an egg.

[SimplyPut]

I would suggest baking with your DD. Every year we make Easter tray bake with this recipe but with Easter eggs rather thank dark chocolate.

We do it together, have fun and then share it around the neighbors!

[MustardScreams]

Dd has 5 eggs already. I have no qualms about eating them. She is 2 and doesn’t need to eat a kilo of chocolate, ever.

[BackOnceAgainWithABurnerEmail]

That’s a mad amount of choc for a 3 year old!

[Shakeitoutnow]

My dd's gave been sitting taunting me for days. I would do it. Will she notice!

[ThomasRichard]

YANBU. I did when the DC were little so they’d have one big one, a rabbit and a packet of small ones each. Now they’re a bit bigger the extended family has calmed down a bit so it’s not an issue.

[MissUGirl]

My brother is type 1 diabetic so sugar was a real problem in our family. My mum's solution was to offer to buy any sweets off him that were given to him at school, Halloween, Easter, etc for cash… He quite liked this arrangement!

Haven't RTFT, so apologies if this has already been suggested.

[QueenoftheBiscuitTin]

I'd be spreading that out until next easter

[LettuceLeave]

Can't believe you even have to ask or look for justification! Just eat it OP 😂

[TeaForDad]

Def eat some of them

[Glitterandunicorns]

Hi OP, I agree that that is far too many for a child, particularly of that age.
I wouldn't eat them though; I'd take them to either a local food bank or a refuge and donate them.

[returnofthecat]

At 3, you could persuade the child to want to share with you and/or want to share with other children who haven't received any Easter Eggs. Rather than outright steal chocolate from a kid, use it as an opportunity to encourage being kind to other people. (Including to you!)

Ultimately, you snaffle the eggs anyway. But far better to get there after instilling the message that sharing is a nice thing to do with people you care about and people who don't have anyone to care about them.

[TotHappy]

My sister used to polish off my eggs when I was little and genuinely argue, when I complained, that as I hadn't eaten them in one sitting then I didn't want them. It used to make me so mad, so unfair. I Ike to have a bit of a treat and save some for later. It's deeply ingrained, the rage at the unfairness, so when my husband does the same with chocolate, or wine, or anything that I'm saving really, I struggle not to explode.
So I won't eat my daughter's eggs unless she wants to share. And I won't eat my DH's either. Bit I have no doubt he will eat mine. Bastard!

[WorraLiberty]

I think that's the main issue TotHappy.

If kids can't grow up keeping their own chocolate/sweets in the fridge/cupboard, for fear of it not being there when they go back to it, they will probably learn to binge eat, just as my friend did.

There are always loads of MNetters who say they have no willpower/self discipline around food (and especially chocolates/cakes) and that it makes them miserable, more so when they're trying to lose weight.

So why not think about a simple, "Please can I have?" or "Could you share some please?" instead of simply taking without asking?

That is a much healthier attitude to have around food/treats that belong to other people.

[chocolatemademefat]

Don’t get the big deal here. Eat them if you want them. She’s three - you can tell her you put them away for her and she’ll believe you. And as for this - little bit for pudding - what a load of nonsense. It’s chocolate ffs not crack cocaine. Does no one on here have normal kids who get to enjoy Easter?

[WorraLiberty]

No, it seems most of the kids on here have parents who eat their kid's eggs 'if they want them'.

And apparently, there are absolutely no savvy 3 year olds.

None of them seem to have a clue about anything...

[TotHappy]

I would let my daughter eat as much as she wanted on the day (she won't get the eggs before then), then put away what's left and let her have some when I would normally let her have a treat. Husband says no, he's not comfortable letting her have as much as she wants in one sitting. I suppose this because I naturally self regulated even as a child, won't eat till im sick, whereas he is massively impulsive around food and drink and probably couldn't self regulate. But as Worra says, she's probably more likely to binge if she knows that as soon as they're out of her sight, DH might scoff the lot!

[AppleKatie]

I think there’s a huge difference between eating a 9 year olds eggs before Easter Sunday and polishing off the second half of a 3 year olds when the latter can’t even remember they had any egg left the next day.

[megletthesecond]

yy apple. I stopped eating my dc's eggs once they were school age.

[zingally]

You're worried about the amount of chocolate... Yet you've bought her 7(?!?), and are predicting she'll probably get a similar amount from other relatives?!

My 2-year-old twins are getting 1 medium sized egg each, and their maternal grandparents are getting them 1 each as well.
My DH and I are both atheists, so have never gotten each other eggs at Easter, and don't especially want our kids eating chocolate eggs every day until Christmas!

If mine got 7+ eggs, I'd absolutely "help" them eat them!! That's an insane number for anyone. Much less a 3 year old.