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...

DH once ate a whole box (I think 36 bags) of crisps in one day... then complained his mouth was sore.

replace them with the sugar free ones from ALDI... if you know .. you know...

You are both unreasonable. The correct number of jelly sweets to eat is 7.

You either had that one sweet or you couldn’t manage it. Which one was it? Your DH was perhaps a bit greedy, but at least the sweets didn’t go to waste and your kids are a bit weird.

Only on MN could a full-on binge be described as "perhaps a bit greedy"! 😂

I know lots of people do it, and I eat too many sweets myself, but let's call it what it was - eating 500g of jelly sweets is a binge.

Admittedly there are only 450g in here, but look! They're fruit and vegan, so they're practically health food*. (I have to hide them or I WOULD eat them all in one go).
*This is a joke.

Binge eating often has a compulsive element (because eating that amount stops being enjoyable), and is a recognised eating disorder. So I guess the question is whether he does this regularly?

As a one off, I wouldn't be concerned, but if it was more frequent I definitely would.

I think 500g of sweets is a hell of a lot! I think it would be about 2500 calories (so the daily amount for a man) but worse than that, it's an insane amount of sugar. I'd probably go in to a hyperglycemic coma if I had all that sugar. My husband has a terrible sweet tooth but even he couldn't manage 500g of sugar. I'd be amazed if he could eat more than 100g of sugar.

I could easily do that. I love sweets. I cannot buy big 1kg bags in as I cannot portion them and therefore eat them in a few sittings. I am all about the sugar!

Their poor pancreas

Meh, big deal. I find it slightly stranger that you couldn't even manage one sweet though!

You couldn’t manage one sweet. Oh bore off!

It’s greedy

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hth

Oh get a grip even a doctor would tell you as an occasional one off it’s fine unless an underlying health issue.

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I feel your nausea

I had one sweet on Halloween night and couldn't even manage that, it was so sickly.

You sound just like my mother. If she wasn't six years dead, I'd be suspicious.

It's still a binge though. A one-off binge isn't something to be too concerned about, but it is what it is.

the point is so?

I could do that no probs

I licked a sweet and was nauseous for a week. Had to jog 5 miles to feel better.

My daughter gave me a small pack of vegan jelly sweets. They were tiny and no more than around twenty in the little pack. I ate them and within two hours I had awful stomach cramps. Never again.

Hopw your husband is ok.

Eh whatever. It happens and we’ve all pigged out on things occasionally.

As a one off I don’t see the issue.

I'm just shocked by how many people seem to see bingeing as normal.

Genuinely, if I ate 500g of sweets, my DH would be really shocked. And I have a sweet tooth!

All sweets are sugary thats the point.

Many people love and are addicted sugar

As a one-off, it definitely doesn’t stop being enjoyable.