What's an extraordinary treat for your kids in your house?

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I used to get away with a £3 toy from Home Bargains but that doesn't seem to cut it anymore. Looking for new suggestions.

A take away or a box of luxury chocolates.

Mine are older (24, 22 and 14) so their tastes have changed over the years, but a stack of homemade American pancakes with a variety of toppings still does it for them, or a family trip to one of our favourite restaurants with cocktails and their mum and dad picking up the tab.

Peeling all the Post-its off a stack or unravelling a whole loo roll. Dreading the day she discovers things from a shop, or chocolate

Starbucks drivethru.
Drink AND food AND muffin.

@LarkspurLane

A jar of edible cookie dough (gookiedough).

I’d never heard of this but one of those mini jars has 624 calories gookiedough.co/pages/nutrition

Papa John's pizza or box of Lindors for my teen daughter.

Stickers. Even just one tiny sticker. They will do pretty much anything for a sticker.

DD is 4, so fair enough, but DS is almost 8, so I thought he'd have moved on to greater things by now!

Depends on the age. When they were toddlers a splash in puddles was a mega treat (still true for 2yo who's just discovered puddles). Also a magazine with a toy attached or a kinder egg - also still a treat for 2yo. For the older ones it's.now a Starbucks Frappuccino or a trip to the Thai shop for noodles and bubble tea.

Pot noodle! Chicken and mushroom one. I refuse to buy them regularly even though I love one myself now and then, because they go crazy and fight over it if they see it in the cupboard! What the heck do they put in them!

Being allowed to choose what’s for dinner. Being allowed occasional “in app purchases” - it’s a total waste of money and I very rarely agree to it.

Last year for youngest DD it was Robux for Roblox. This year Roblox barely even gets a mention! Can't say I'm sorry to see the back of that fad.

Cereal for breakfast. They've only recently discovered it as an alternative to our usual porridge and they think cheerios and shreddies are a huge huge treat.

Not gonna disabuse them of this notion

Daughter's biggest treat is going to sit in her Grandparents' classic cars with her Grumpa. She goes mad for that.

If she's been really good at a car show, I have a hidden stash of classic car Hotwheels.
She's 17 months, the bar is low.

@Reallyimeanreally2022 there are chip shops that do GF... I'm guessing pp uses one of those, rather than makes the family sick every now and then on a Sunday for a treat...!

A Freddo Frog.

Now it's roast lamb.

Interesting thread! For mine it’s hot chocolate usually. It was a £1 shop toy before COVID. A new book is steadily coming in, but they’re a bit more pricey so it is a special reward. For me when I was a kid it was a new book or a pack of posters with colouring pens. I like the fiver in The Works.

Just saw pp actually responded - glad you're not counting getting sick as your treat..!

2 and a half year old

Being able to blow the dog whistle and give the dogs a treat when they come back (loves it even more when she is really good on a walk so I let her go hide and blow the whistle so the dogs find her)

Surprise eggs - if she's good or does something beyond expectations we get one out of the little stash - just cheap 69p ones from pounstretcher. If it has a dinosaur or a pony she is enthralled for hours)

Dada juice (every Friday after work her dad brings home a Capri Sun for her and she calls it dada juice, she knows dad will be off the next day too so it's their little celebration)

Being finally allowed to pick the fruit from our fruit bushes and eat it as she goes

For our 9 year old ds a trip out with with Dad to go shooting together or a shooting lesson.

As a really big treat he absolutely adores fine dining and adores trying really good restaurants and us all getting dressed up for it. Extra points if it specialises in fish.

For a little treats going to the lovely little traditional sweet shop in our village and being able to choose a quarter of any sweets he would like.
He also each week as a treat gets to go to the fishmongers to pick a fish to try.

Mine are older now. 15, 12 & 10.

When they were younger we used to bake a "pimp my snack" which they loved:

www.pimpthatsnack.com/

carrot sticks and some diluted juice once a month - don't want to over indulge them

actually DD1 - some nice pants or cans of Malibu cocktails, DD2 a retro t shirt or cash, DD3 money for crystals or a desert shop delivery

Chocolate or donuts or biscuits or cake

DD (4) - McDonald’s, stickers, anything Frozen, being allowed to choose sweets in a shop.

Their own tube of Pringles.
Their own can of foaming shower gel.

DS 1. Making him a deluxe sandwich for his lunch
DS2. Magic the Gathering Cards
DS3. A new book
DD1. Afternoon tea with Victoria sponge