To eat some of DS chocolate/ sweets

[Stylishkidintheriot]

DS isn’t a massive eater of sweets and chocolate: he’ll open a small
packet and take one, abandon the rest. He would eat fruit before sweets. This isn’t a humble brag as he would eat cake and other foods til the cows came home.

at Christmas we had to throw out last years Easter eggs as they were out of date. At the moment the snack cupboard still has sweets from halloweeen in it. There are some christmas sweets lying about. I don’t think he’s eaten any of his Easter eggs. He goes to birthday parties most weekends, and there are often sweets given out

wibu to help him out by eating some of the chocolate: DH says I have no right to eat any of DSs food

I think it's fine. DD doesn't particularly like chocolate and isn't bothered eating her eggs. DH is getting through them (I'm on a diet, otherwise I'd "help"). Can't see the harm, no point in them going to waste. Why buy other treats if there's perfectly good chocolate going uneaten in the house?

Quite.

How old is your son? I'd be tempted to have a little chat with him and explain if it isn't eaten within a time frame, it gets wasted and has to be thrown out. He's welcome to eat it, but to save waste and you having to buy some yourself, would it be ok to have some. It's a situation he will often have to address himself over the years in terms of not wasting food, so food to start now. Also, it might only be sweets and chocolate, but with so many struggling at the moment you can't waste food - either eat it or give to a food bank or an organisation doing a prize draw.

The obvious thing to do is to ask your DS if you can have some surely. Why would you want to deprive him of the feeling of doing something kind?

Hi: DS is 6. I just asked him and he told me that I could have some of his easter chocolate. So all good

I do it all the time. If DS asks about it I say it got broken and I'll let him pick something out at the shop next time.