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To ask how many Easter eggs have you eaten today?

249 replies

lumos3 · 17/04/2022 18:13

Oh god.

I've had two and half Easter eggs, a creme egg and a small bag of chocolate buttons Blush

Awful I know. But I have the awful mentality that I should eat it all now rather than let it derail my healthy eating by eating bits every day. I know this is dysfunctional...I also find it hard to stop once I start.

Can anyone beat me?

OP posts:
Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 09:49

purple I think a purely confectionery based gift and many of them so it seems for many years basically only targeted at children and in a much more scaled down version, is very different to acknowledging Christmas or a birthday.

Easter, like so many other previously acknowledged events, has now become so big.

Easter trees and Cards, multiple eggs hunts and chocolate for kids, additional presents too. I guess it’s just the excess
that is surprising tbh and it’s Not for us, or for many so it seems, but each to their own.

It’s the way with so many things really isn’t it.

Hen and stag nights used to be small evening events and no you often see it as being a weekend or even a week or major excess.

Same with Halloween - never to be much of a thing where I’m from.

nose my SIL says she can’t eat Easter chocolate because she doesn’t like it as an egg! Weird isn’t it. What appeals to one, is off-putting to another!

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 19/04/2022 09:50

How a grown adult with responsibility gets fun from a chocolate egg is just a bit strange. And is definitely quite new

Oh pish! Adults have been buying eggs for eachother for as long as I can remember.

Not sure why you can't enjoy a chocolate egg that someone has given you if you have responsibility Confused

What a bout a box of chocolates? When I just dinner parties it's perfectly normal for someone in the group to bring a box to have with coffee,how is that any different?

Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 09:54

To be fair Mrs the thread is about excessive consumption - multiple eggs and a comparison of how much everyone has eaten.

Vastly different to one consuming one egg, or a box of chocolates to be shared as a group for a whole dinner party.

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 09:56

Fair enough but I really am surprised people think so much into it. I like chocolate, it tastes good with a cup of tea on Easter morning.

Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 10:00

I don’t think they do tbf nose
I think it’s just the seriously large amounts in one go that surprises. I genuinely never knew adults ate chocolate like this.

My DH also enjoyed a few of his truffles with his morning coffee (I bought him a Lindor one - nice choc apparently).

Hope you’ve enjoyed your eggs.

I’ve for my eye on left over BBQ food for lunch today.

Happy Monday.

Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 10:00

Happy Tuesday even

SunscreenCentral · 19/04/2022 10:03

None. Made up for it with my other vices though and have eaten a lot of crap this weekend.

There's nearly 500kc in a bag of bacon waffles, if anyone wants to know it 😣

PurpleDaisies · 19/04/2022 10:10

I think it’s just the seriously large amounts in one go that surprises. I genuinely never knew adults ate chocolate like this.

People have always over indulged-it’s just more obvious at Easter and Christmas. For some people it’s totally normal to eat a whole tub of ice cream, a family sized chocolate bar or a multipack or crisps while watching a film. You’ve only got to read a “what’s your McDonald’s order?” thread to see that some people really do eat a lot.

The key question is whether it’s a rare celebration or a regular thing.

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 10:15

I keep thinking it’s Monday too @Quincythequince!

I think the majority of posters on this thread have had none or a small amount. It’s fair enough to not agree with overindulging but to start throwing around accusations that it’s childish and adults don’t deserve to have Easter eggs, I don’t think is at all relevant and to me I find it a bit depressing and joyless that people think like that.

namechangeanonymous · 19/04/2022 10:32

I only ate the actual egg out of a medium Easter egg on Easter Sunday a few lindt yesterday and today I have to go for my gestational diabetes test I may regret this decision!

hamstersarse · 19/04/2022 11:07

@Nosetickle

I keep thinking it’s Monday too *@Quincythequince*!

I think the majority of posters on this thread have had none or a small amount. It’s fair enough to not agree with overindulging but to start throwing around accusations that it’s childish and adults don’t deserve to have Easter eggs, I don’t think is at all relevant and to me I find it a bit depressing and joyless that people think like that.

It is me saying that and I know it sounds joyless and depressing

But as we are saying it is different strokes for different folks. Honestly, if stuffing down a toxic chocolate egg was a source of joy for me, I'd really have to question my life.

But I am probably more interested in health and fitness than most people are and I do think addiction to chocolate /sugar is real and that this mass marketing of an extremely unhealthy 'treat' is pretty criminal. Yes, everything in moderation - but has anyone actually seen how these easter eggs are marketed these days? Walls of them in every shop you go in

Sales of Easter Eggs went up 50% in 2021 and a further 10% in 2022.

I just happen to think that isn't great for people and the excess is real

hamstersarse · 19/04/2022 11:15

You’ve only got to read a “what’s your McDonald’s order?” thread to see that some people really do eat a lot.

I ventured onto one of those threads once and it was horrifying.

Apparently it's joyless to not want to gorge on junk. It always sounds to me like how an alcoholic talks to someone who isn't drinking at a party.

Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 11:20

Where can I find these?

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 11:27

I’ve never said it’s joyless not to gorge on junk, I just think it’s a bit joyless to put restrictions on grown ups treating themselves to a chocolate Easter egg if they want one, just because they’re not a child anymore.

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 11:33

@hamstersarse

You’ve only got to read a “what’s your McDonald’s order?” thread to see that some people really do eat a lot.

I ventured onto one of those threads once and it was horrifying.

Apparently it's joyless to not want to gorge on junk. It always sounds to me like how an alcoholic talks to someone who isn't drinking at a party.

What posters like you are doing on this thread is the equivalent of being sober at a party and telling everyone everyone else who is having a drink that they are being childish and all the ways they’re destroying their health. Can you not see how that’s a bit joyless?
Quincythequince · 19/04/2022 11:43

Well, that McDonald’s thread
😱

I laughed though!

Fun was being made by way of ‘this is MN and along shortly will be the ‘we share half a chip for a family of four’ crew’

😆

Some of those orders though! Why!

hamstersarse · 19/04/2022 11:47

@Nosetickle

I know it seems joyless. I've said that.

I know what you mean about the sober person at a party, yes. But the thing is they are right. People getting so drunk they can't stand up etc. isn't great - and is a bit childish?

The reason I used the example of an alcoholic wanting others to drink, is that that is most definitely encouraging unhealthy behaviour and pressuring people to do the same as them

Threads like this are encouraging others to binge out on chocolate and I just don't think normalising it even more than it is is good news.

We do have an obesity problem, it is real. And yes, it is one day being described here but I would put money on anyone who has downed 3 x eggs this weekend has eating issues elsewhere.

On the childish thing, like I said, I do find it childish that adults need to be treated to a nicely packaged chocolate egg. It is childish isn't it?

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 11:55

We’ll agree to disagree on it being childish. If this thread was called “Who can eat the most Easter eggs?” Then I’d agree it’s irresponsible. Actually the OP mentioned in the first post that they knew they had overindulged and wanted to know how many Easter eggs others had eaten. A simple enough question, loads of people said none and nobody batted an eyelid. It’s when the fun police piled on and started telling everyone who enjoys an Easter egg how disgusting and childish they are that it got, shall we say, interesting?! Obviously it’s a case of horses for courses like everything in life but I think it’s fair to pick people up on it when they start being judgemental.

JollyWilloughby · 19/04/2022 16:13

@hamstersarse

A chocolate egg isn’t toxic. It’s certainly not healthy for you, however it’s not going to poison you.

I enjoy health and fitness, regularly lift weights etc but I don’t mind eating a load of chocolate on Easter Sunday.

I have many, many joys in my life…. chocolate being one of them, sex with my husband another. Etc…etc! I don’t limit myself 😉

Having said that I understand why some people would think….. Nar not for me. I don’t like alcohol at all and I heave at the smell of wine. Some people look at me like I have two heads when I tell them that information.

Everyone’s different I guess!

JollyWilloughby · 19/04/2022 16:39

Also I’m sure the Cadbury eggs taste nicer than the actual bars, anyone else think this? 😋

XenoBitch · 19/04/2022 16:49

I didn't have any, but I have now stocked up on creme eggs as they were half price.

Nosetickle · 19/04/2022 18:08

@JollyWilloughby

Also I’m sure the Cadbury eggs taste nicer than the actual bars, anyone else think this? 😋
I totally agree Smile
SpilltheTea · 19/04/2022 18:12

Are grown women seriously incapable of talking about chocolate without being arseholes to each other?

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