Easter over indulgence

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Anyone dreading Easter?

Im trying to heal my bad habits and be a good influence on my small child and set a good example

But thinking about Easter, im already wound up by the sheer volume of chocolate everyone will give my small 5 year old

Grandparents, aunts, uncles, her father.

Mounds and mounds of sugary crap wrapped in colourful foil

Why does everyone like feeding kids so much?

I allow my kids to eat as much of it as they like on easter Sunday/Monday then the rest of it gets used in baking or as snacks.

I think if you want to donate to a food bank, donate the eggs you would have brought her, don't donate eggs brought by other people for her.

exactly, just say you dont want it, you dont have to have an Easter Egg as you say more crap.

Both sets of grandparents bought books and one small Easter Egg like a Cadbury's buttons egg, nothing huge. We argued books last longer and can be re-read. We bought the same size egg so they only ever had 3 eggs each. We did an Easter egg hunt with plastic eggs, each child had their own colour and they got a reward at the end but it wasn't food but a choice of a film or tv show they wanted to watch, or a walk round the park with the duck pond or the reservoir where they could go on their scooters.

@SleepingStandingUp

But i dont buy any myself? I don't need to

Don’t all the mums of young children eat the kids Easter eggs when they are in bed or is that just me 🙄?

@Andanotherone01

So what's your advice for not passing on?

That's so weird. I mean, who heard of giving sweets as gifts? How dreadful for you all

Everything is so hyped up these days

Easter egg hunt with both sets of GPs

Another at school

It's too much

But her daughter will want it, which is who the gift it for and there no reasonable reason she shouldn't have it.

Just as I wouldn't hand back a box of lego to someone on Xmas day and say no thanks, I've decided I don't want Bob to have lego this year.

I can never understand any of this angst over Easter chocolate. Nobody says you have to eat it all on Easter Sunday.

Why can't you just put it away and get it out gradually? It doesn't go off.

Then you don't get to give them to the food bank, imo. Just ration it out. Like someone said, the actual chocolate isn't that much in the small eggs, it just looks more. Let her eat some Easter morning, then use it for desserts. If it's really lingering, melt to make cakes. Once it's melted you realise how little there is

I wouldn't let it wind you up, it's not law to eat it all in one sitting, just enjoy it as and when until it's gone. We've still got Christmas chocolate in the sweet cupboard here, not because we think one fun size Mars Bar is equivalent to a year's worth of sugar like some on here, far from it, we just reached a point where we'd all had enough chocolate so we're all steadily working our way through the remainder when we fancy it.

For those talking about "hoarding", we've always got a fairly well stocked treat cupboard and I've never particularly rationed sugary stuff (bar "not now, it's nearly dinner time") and DS can take it or leave it. I just cannot see how that will cause issues. I donate to food banks separately but I see no need to force him to give up presents that last perfectly well in the cupboard until he wants them.

The trouble is that they are too cheap these days. My siblings and I used to get one large egg from parents, then a couple of medium eggs from grandparents/great aunt. Now the large eggs are on offer for only £2 for 200+g of chocolate, and they come even bigger than that.

Congratulations op, this is the first Easter egg angst thread I have seen this year. There will be many more.
When did parenting become so joyless, sanctimonious, ungrateful and rude?
The constant angst and micromanagement of every single person who comes within a mile of your precious children must be absolutely exhausting.
I find this utterly baffling I really do

You ration a small egg over a week?

It's chocolate not crack.

Yep, we never had room for chocolate eggs in our paper bag in the middle of t’ road.

I used to work with someone like this

You don't think 400g of chocolate is plenty for a child?

We're Jewish so don't have this issue, I am however in long term recovery for an ED with 2 DCs. My advice for not passing on issues (I have had to be extremely strict with myself on this, I almost died and it is only by the grace of IVF that I even have DC and I don't want them to even know the hell I lived in during the active phases of my ED even exists) You have to 'see' food as what it is, my DH has to help me sometimes. If it is Purim (where we have lots of sweets for DC at parties etc.) he will say, 'Pip, it's one chocolate biscuit, tomorrow we will be eating normally and see how much DD is running wild with her cousins!' DH also does not pressure me to eat treats, but he will over me whatever he has taken and if I decide to take it he will say 'Good isn't it?' and wink and we will have a chuckle.

Could your DH do similarly?

Nobody says this about fruit.

Sorry posted too soon.
Rather like a lot of posters on this thread, she was sure her way was the best way and was convinced she was a better parent than those who did not feel the need to control their child's diet beyond normal care. No sweets, no crisps, no processed meat - a colleague found her going through a work bin to check the meat content of ham used in sandwiches at a staff kids' party.
Her children could not take their eyes off food when it arrived. All the others were playing and hers were trying to steal contraband - including after the food had been taken away, when they were found under the table eating the food that had been dropped.
I can't imagine what their relationship with food is now. They were totally messed-up for the sake of a few cakes and crisps.
Yet mum thought she was such a good parent, far superior to the rest of us. She wasn't

Here we go again with this nonsense. It is a bit of chocolate. Just let them eat it. Then it will be gone and you can go back to looking for things to get yourself all worked up about.

For one hour, one day, one week, until Halloween? Context is everything.

DM has already given DD two eggs . One last weekend and one last month

And it didn't occur to you to put them in the food bank box?