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.

The OP.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DfITfSPjBmM

I grew up in the late nineties/early 2000s and everyone consumed larger amounts of sweets and junk, me and all my friends are slim, fit and have lovely teeth regardless.

Yep, I was a kid in the late 80s and 90s and we all ate a lot more sweets than this. OP's stash would have been gone in a week, let alone months. My friends and I have all turned out ok, no heath issues and we have good diets.

Wtf! There's hardly anything there 🤣 you made out there was practically a skip full!

I once knew a couple and they debated for about an hour about whether the pears or the custard should be layered first for a trifle.
This reminds me of that.

I didn’t even think trifles had pears in them until then.

@MarshmallowFondant

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.

Yeah, you've gone too far now OP.

Mama, I just have SO much chocolate and sweets that I can't POSSIBLY eat, so please can you sell it so we can donate money to charity?

Aye right.

Honestly, just a very earnest child with her eye on a Brownies badge and a particular charity very close to the family at the moment. Other family members have been talking about their fundraising plans so it's just on her radar at the moment. I realise it sounds a bit wanky but it does make sense in context (and I don't think she'd have the same idea after, say, Easter).

This is so weird 🤣

I'd easily eat that after a spliff

DISCUSTED I tell thee...

i'd keep the buttons, malteser bunnies, freddo, lolly, and smarties to dish out here and there over the next couple of months as they're small. :)

i'd melt and use the santas for cooking rice krispie cakes or something of that sort.

I'd eat the candy cane myself (no shame i love them lol)

the pigs i'd share out around as general family bits.

the sweets and fudge i'd probably regift.

You are being dramatic. That lot could easily last until Easter.

stop with the calling food 'treats', they're not dogs

I can't believe she hasn't eaten it all!

At times when I was swamped with sweets as a kid, there were vague mutterings about me "learning to share" -- so I used to eat everything except the coffee cremes/Turkish delights and then take those downstairs with a flourish, about a week later, expecting a round of applause for my generosity.

Doesn't she have friends?
I'll always carry a couple choc bars when out and about with DS and friends or for when they're round at our house.

Why would you chuck it?!

If she isn't fond of sweets great but give it away food bank, local kids, keep for raffle prizes, our school often want sealed sweets for tombolas etc

There isn't that much there, it all has long dates, she could have an occasional treat for a long while. I have one dc with loads left from Christmas, he'll get though it when he's ready. I wouldn't dream of throwing it but have to hold back from dipping in! the other had the same amount but nearly all gone.

Those sorts of sweets and chocolate keep for ages. She will get through it, eventually. Can you get rid of any of it in a party/playdate situation where you can encourage her to share with friends?

SCRAP THAT

get her to start a small, cash in hand business from her desk/locker at school. A mini tuckshop if you will. From the proceeds she can buy more and more things and before you know it she'll be the Alan sugar of the confectionery world

Good lord, we haven't been able to eat at our dining table since Christmas Eve because it's covered in chocolate/biscuits/crisps etc. Im doing my best to shield my children from the horrors though.

allCriminalOrator Its the Hotel Chocolate Wreath Chocolate Box (My DD is 26 so not quite the same as the OPs situation, but for someone on a diet for me to see this nearly full box around the house is very tempting)

We have two teens, both have received a ridiculous amount of sweets. Hundreds of thousands of calories. Nothing like the 1980s when there was just a family tin of Roses, a mars selection box and a net of chocolate coins.

On top of various large gifts to the family, they've also received individual tins of Roses.
I look at my beautiful teens and just don't want these empty calories in the house. It doesn't feel like a treat, there's so much, it's just always available for mindless face stuffing. I want to set my girls up with healthy attitude for the future, these gifts from loved ones and sports clubs just undermine and confuse everyone. YANBU

That's really not a lot at all. They'll just eat it gradually over the next few weeks or months until they get a shed load for Easter and then to the same.

Have they/you eaten anything? I'd say that was a fairly modest pile!

WTF?!

However I've overcome my shock & the dc will have a small treat weekly or whatever over the next yr.

@SliceOfCakeCupOfTea

SCRAP THAT

get her to start a small, cash in hand business from her desk/locker at school. A mini tuckshop if you will. From the proceeds she can buy more and more things and before you know it she'll be the Alan sugar of the confectionery world

@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... 🙄

This. ^ What a load of old tosh this thread is.

Yeah yeah @PinkPomeranian YANBU. Just feed your DC with carrots, and salad, and sticks of celery, and dry muesli. Like all the best mummies do.