Eating an entire 500g tub of sweets

[DanglyThings]

Is that just weird? A man in his 50s, getting through a whole box of (really sickly) jelly sweets in one go? I had one sweet on Halloween night and couldn't even manage that, it was so sickly. The kids had a couple each and didn't go back to them, so they've been just left in the cupboard. Got up to find an empty box this morning, asked dh where he'd put them, thinking possibly he'd moved them to a different container... "I ate them," he said. What would you think? I mean, it's not the world's biggest problem, but I just think it's strange...

It's sounding like an eating disorder, or something similar. I don't know what exactly, but if there's also an element of not being able to resist reduced food, even when you don't need it and the reduction is negligible, or not being able to resist three servings of something when your son will need one the next day...on top of the excessive sugar, it does sound as though something is going on mentally.

It is quite a lot, and I can pack them away? Was it a really cheap nasty version, because that would make it harder to eat. Heroes or celebrations, a whole tub is a lot. Swizzels Sweet Shop Favourites?

He was blasé about it though, which is interesting.

Please don't joke about the diabetes though, because if he did have it, undiagnosed, his blood sugars would be so high he'd be ill, and NOT eating sweets.

I know, I had an eye roll at that too!

Half kilo of sugar? That's a bit much. However, I could quite happily eat a whole family sized cake without effort. So I don't buy any.

Yeah I could do that, which is why I don’t keep too many sweets in the house - super sweet tooth over here so can’t resist them, other half is even worse than me!

That's like a pound of sweets which is a lot. Very unhealthy.

Eating his own kid's lunchbox crisps for the next day is pretty poor behaviour.

From that it doesn't sound like you go near fruit or veg much either! On your example here that would be only one portion of veg in an entire day.
Maybe you need to cut the biscuits down and have something more healthy to be a better model for your kids, as it sounds like Dad certainly isn't.

@Wheredoallthepensgo That was a Friday rush job of a day. I do normally get my five a day. Just trying to prove to some of those up thread I'm not a pony tail flipping salad muncher 😅