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.

Christ, that lot is just a good evening in in our house!

@Jenasaurus that collection is a bit disappointing

am I the only one that is amazed she has had the self restraint not to eat it all already?

@SliceOfCakeCupOfTea

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.

Oh no the horrors of the future MN thread

DS has been out playing with his friend today with friends Mom, let's call her A and him B. A has given my son, 7, let's call him C, chocolate. The wrapper is in his pocket BBE March 22 so it's clearly some old Halloween or Christmas chocolate. She knows we only feed C organic chocolate. Aibu to think that A shouldn't be giving out B's chocolates to people like C unless they're confirmed with their parents as to whether they've had any other chocolate this week and their dietary needs? For context, we gave B a book on organic farming for Christmas and A gave C a selection box.

Just get a sweets tin and dish it out to them throughout the year. As others have posted, it will last until Easter when you'll get the next haul.

@5128gap

I'm shocked to the core. I'm not quite sure how you deal with it to be honest. Could you maybe set fire to it, or bury it and then lay a patio on top? Or perhaps chop it into small pieces and scatter them across multiple public bins, moving between counties if you think its safer?

Thank you for brightening my day with this

It doesn't seem much to me.

@Brieandcamembert

That doesn't seem a huge amount tbh! Surely she can have it over a couple of weeks.

I'm desperately hoping no child ways that many sweets and chocolates in a few weeks. Months maybe. I actually do think it's an awful lot of sugar.

I really don't think giving it as a dessert sets up healthy eating practices either. I always realise on here how skewed the UK attitude is to feeding children junk foods.

You may "desperately hope" no dc eats this amount in a few weeks, but I think you are wrong. My (perfectly healthy weight) dc would, and I don't think they are especially unusual.

I always wonder if posters who develop histrionics about a few sweets are the sort of people who pretend they are full after three bites of lettuce when eating out, as if calorie restriction is some sort of common on your moral character.

An active dc is not harmed by a few sweets. They are harmed by parents who are excessively controlling around food consumption.

*comment on your moral character

Well this has accrued posts rapidly from my last nosy haha

And I was expecting at least a bucket of sweets and some tins not the picture 😀

My 12 year old ate that amount in a couple of days(not envy!)

It's Christmas inniit, he doesn't eat like that the rest of the year!

He's also stick thin

@Brieandcamembert

That doesn't seem a huge amount tbh! Surely she can have it over a couple of weeks.

I'm desperately hoping no child ways that many sweets and chocolates in a few weeks. Months maybe. I actually do think it's an awful lot of sugar.

I really don't think giving it as a dessert sets up healthy eating practices either. I always realise on here how skewed the UK attitude is to feeding children junk foods.

Bit rich with a name like yours.

In our house it’s Brie or Camembert.

Seriously?! You'd be disgusted at my kids sweetie piles, they put yours to shame.

You've made it to Twitter OP... Having a right good laugh over there.

The Mail will be next I'm sure!

@Ileflottante

In our house it’s Brie or Camembert.

In my house it's Brie and Camembert and Gorgonzola and Yorkshire Wensleydale and Vintage Extra Mature Cheddar...but then we are greedy fat bastards and we know it.

That's really not a lot considering it's just been Christmas. You'd pass out if you saw how much my kids have.

Oooooo, hoists bosoms🙄

There's chocolate and then there's shit parading as chocolate.

@CrimbleCrumble1

Is this a new thing, kids getting chocolate at Christmas time? Seriously though could you put some by and use it for baking, icing biscuits etc on a rainy day?

What?! I remember in the 80s as a child having chocolate for breakfast on Christmas morning.

Well there won’t be many parties over the next couple months I wouldn’t have thought. So you can get through it.

I dont think it’s a particularly large haul 😳

But it's not Food! Kids may as well suck on a sugar cube dipped in food colouring🤣

Just stretch it out over the next several weeks or so, am sure the best before dates will be ok

Or I would personally help myself while they are at school/elsewhere!

Yeah that’s a really moderate amount. Ridiculous thread.

Your DD still has treats, obviously rationing out and eating sensibly. Get a grip.
do you get equally upset over Halloween treats?

Honestly, I don’t normally let my 8yo DD eat lots of chocolate or sweets but she got way more than that for Christmas! Just use it to bake with/melt it in milk for hot chocolate/eat a few bits yourself and spread the rest out until Easter. It’s hardly anything over several months.