to think that people are far too precious about Easter eggs....

[seeker]

..it's only chocolate, not crack, and it's only once a year! They'll stuff themselves silly today, then probab ly not want any more tomorrow - you can make the left overs into krispie cakes, or the Hugh F-W creating someone's linked to - but what on earth is wrong with one glorious chocolate binge once a year?

Absolutely nothing.....mind you I am not a chocoholic and would much prefer if Easter was all about getting McCoys crisps!

If you let them eat all the eggs there won't be any for you to sneek when they have gone to bed

yanbu
but nor are they. each to their own

Don't be so reasonable, 2shoes - this is a rant thread!

ds hid his before he went to bed. He knows his mother too well!

Seeker, you a highly reasonable person and I salute you. I am on the verge of giving up MN as it seems that anything fun is wrong. It's so depressing and I thank goodness that I have a mind of my own and can remember what it was like to be a kid.

They will not die if they eat quite a lot of chocolate for two days of the year.

Ds and I have just shared a massive egg, he had the egg and I had the chocolates out of them. We curled up on my bed ( dh is on nights) and ate it all whilst watching Top Gear. And it was fab!!!!!!
And I don't feel in the slightest bit bad about it!!

Easter to me a a child meant chocolate and more chocolate. Its once a year and not everyday.

DS had a great time when we did the egg hunt and fun eating them after. I dont want him to look back and think mum never let us have chocolate at easter.

As long as children have a healthy diet for the majority of the time, treats dont hurt. Far better than growing up with food problems in later life.

As for those that are hiding them/binning them, how ungrateful.

Abso, bloody, lutely!

Stuff as many as you can in thats my motto.

Gosh we did as kids! Cant beleive these parents that hide/take em off kids.

Its only really Easter and Christmas that you have so much chocolate isnt it?

My ds has ate shitloads today!

well.....one of my good friends told me that kids and sweets go together like fish and chips.

not quite something I agree with as I am a stickler normally for no sweets at all, but easter, xmas, b'days and halloween are the 4 times I relent!!!!

seeker my 2 have 10 eggs
thay had chocolate for breakfast.
dd who has sn will most likely have chocolate for breakfast untill the eggs have gone.........do I look bovered

for seeker

Lol 2shoes

Even my little 6mth ds2 had choc today

my ds had one for breakfast....he is still alive

My husband sent my 16 year old daughter a link to the pagan rituals of Easter. She still ate her Easter eggs! Live and let live. Chocolate treats once a year will not hurt (unless they are allergic).

This society has effectively sucked all the magic out of every day life by demonising just about everything but the two True Gods: money and self.

It's depressing as fuck.

Of all the things to demonise: a little too much chocolate a few days out of the year.

No wonder children are growing up so fucking miserable and humourless more and more.

That sounds like a great night to me Ladymariner !

It was! Snuggling up with ds was lovely and in the dark recesses of my mind I also held the thought - chocolate and Hammond....aahhhh

My teenage dc still love easter eggs and why not? They eat pretty healthily most of the time. I have been on a strict low-carb diet for months and have had a delicious choccy blowout today (it's my birthday as well so double excuse...) and I think knowing I can have treats sometimes keeps me on the straight and narrow the rest of the time.

I couldnt take presents bought my kds off em and chuck them! How mean is that!And ungrateful

I think if something is bought as a present, even if its not something you would usually buy youself, then let them have it!

Well I didn't buy my dd an egg. Waste of money in my opinion. Waste of money before Easter Sunday that is. She only likes 70% choc, so I'm off to get her one half price in Sainsbury right now!