Disgusted by excessive Xmas treats!

[PinkPomeranian]

My kids are doing a final clear up before going back to school tomorrow, and 8yo trotted off to fetch her Xmas sweet haul which she had forgotten about and therefore barely touched.

Seeing it all laid out I am absolutely astounded by the amount of chocolate/sweets she has accumulated. (Even more horrified to realise that 5yo currently has a pile half this size despite receiving the same stuff as her elder sister!) This is over the last month alone. She also has two large tins full of the sweets she's been given at parties and Hallowe'en etc. I don't think our friends or family are particularly big on sweets so guess lots of little or one-off things have just accumulated.

AIBU to be a bit taken aback by the amount she's received? And what do other people do with it all? I don't think she'll get through it all but seems a waste to bin it.

Thoughts and prayers, OP X

@WorraLiberty

I do find all these posts so virtue signally - just ration the chocolate - or give it away. But don't come onto MN and Facebook wringing your hands about how much chocolate your kids have got. Easter is late this year, so plenty of time to eat it before the next onslaught.

Exactly. It's so tedious and transparent.

As if the OP didn't consider contacting a food bank to ask if they want them 🙄

I'm not virtue signalling and really didn't think a food bank would want Christmas cast-offs or loose sweets. If they'd be accepted then that's good to know, and was the point of my post.

I thought with that title it must've gone mouldy or been nibbled by mice or something!

Crikey Santa brought my dc an 800g bar of Dairy Milk each! They also had some chocolate coins. It's all gone. No, they didn't eat it all in one day, and they did have some help, but yes, it's all gone.

Eaten over a few days or weeks, as part of an otherwise healthy diet, it's fine.

It is threads like this that warm the cockles of my MN heart. Not.

All the lovely behaved MNetters who love to be on the first page of chat or AIBU to knock a poster down. They love it.

Yes, that is too many sweets for a young child, OP. Of course it is. But may, or maybe not for all the first MN posters. We will never really know, as the idea is not to give a true answer, but a, knock a poster down one. From the love of all their combined hearts.

Stick her outside and get her to flog it to passerby’s and neighbours. If it’s that much of an issue then give it away.

People eat it. And they survive. It will be ok, OP

What sort of a weird eight year old thinks that’s ‘too much’ for her?!!

Don’t tell me, she prefers to snack on unsalted, lightly roasted almonds…

DD was quite keen to try to sell some bits for charity but I can't quite see how she'd manage to sell 5p lollies, especially when few of them look brand new.

OK stop now!! 😂😂😂

@anotherbloodyyearofcovid

bin the lot of it, horrible poor quality shitty stuff. The kids won't miss it.

Some idiot posted somewhere recently that making a child wear a mask is abuse. Giving handfuls of sugar and e-numbers to a child to eat is abuse. I grew up with kids who had more fillings than teeth because their parents fed them sugary rubbish like this.

Don't feel bad, it's rubbish and belongs in the bin.

No, I'm not a dentist.

(sits back and waits for torrent of abuse)

🤣 ok you took that too far.

@eagerlywaitingfor

Some lovely ideas about giving it away or donating it to a food bank.

Except for one thing. That haul does not belong to the OP. It isn't hers to dispose of.

I completely agree. She doesn't want it all though so I'll be putting the helpful suggestions to her and letting her decide what she wants to do. And if she does want to keep it in the end then that's fine, too.

@anotherbloodyyearofcovid

bin the lot of it, horrible poor quality shitty stuff. The kids won't miss it.

Some idiot posted somewhere recently that making a child wear a mask is abuse. Giving handfuls of sugar and e-numbers to a child to eat is abuse. I grew up with kids who had more fillings than teeth because their parents fed them sugary rubbish like this.

Don't feel bad, it's rubbish and belongs in the bin.

No, I'm not a dentist.

(sits back and waits for torrent of abuse)

Unless you want a child who grows up seeing sweet things as particularly desirable forbidden fruit, this is poor advice. Moderation and good dental hygiene is sufficient without any dramatics.

@WorraLiberty

DD was quite keen to try to sell some bits for charity but I can't quite see how she'd manage to sell 5p lollies, especially when few of them look brand new.

OK stop now!! 😂😂😂

I'm totally serious.

I'm not virtue signalling and really didn't think a food bank would want Christmas cast-offs or loose sweets. If they'd be accepted then that's good to know, and was the point of my post.

I'm sorry, I didn't see the PP give you the details of the exact food bank she was talking about?

*300g bar (at least, I think it was that! Def not 800 😂)

I don't know what sort of amateurs you are raising there OP. I would have gotten through that lot in a day or two max as a child of the 80's.

If it's teeth you are worried about, my dentist told me it's best to have all the sweets in one go btw 😁

If you think that's bad OP, you should see the size of the Toblerone I got.

You'd have a heart attack if you saw my two daughters sweets/chocolate haul I was pretty shocked myself to be honest. I will be rationing it out over the next few months/giving some to friends (my daughters are young enough and it's hidden away so that they won't notice me doing this) and using some in baking activities with them... And probably eating some myself. Luckily anything with sugar keeps pretty well so it's not like there's a small time frame it all needs to be eaten by. They still have sweets from Halloween! I don't think I'll have to buy easter eggs this year though .

Is this thread a wind up ?

I just shove it in a cupboard and they get to have one after tea. It soon goes.

@blacksax

If you think that's bad OP, you should see the size of the Toblerone I got.

Good point. Didn’t get a toblerone this year …..

In the week I’m off treats but Friday Saturday night if I want them I’ll have them I’ve loads to eat still from Christmas I’ll have over the next few months.

I volunteer as tribute, shall I pm you my address OP? The Percy popcorn thing looks interesting 🤤

@Sleepaway

Last while Easter that. Shove it in the cupboard and have a rice cake to calm down.

Put it all in the food bank then if she won't eat it. No big deal. Its not really that much.

That doesn't look too bad. DC who are 7 and 3 got at least 10 selection boxes between them and I'd be happy if they worked their way through them at 1 bar a day but they'll sit until next Christmas because neither particularly likes chocolate. Which annoys me because of the waste (there's nothing in them that DH or I would choose either really) so I need to think of something to do with them.

This isn't some weird MN boast, they just prefer gummy sweets and are instead working their way through a 1kg tub of haribo!