I have a confession and this is really difficult for me to share…

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I bought my DS a £12 Easter egg and I’ve gobbled up most of it, as he’d forgotten about it. I gave him the cheap ones as I was enjoying the expensive one. Disgusting behaviour I know… 😳🫣

My daughter was about 12 before she realised that chocolate Easter bunnies have ears !

I spent many a year feigning confusion at where I'd put the children's Easter Eggs. And looking for them... 😬

YABU as posh choc is grim. I was given a posh choc and it was revolting dark chocolate! 🤢

Give me Cadbury any day!!

Terrible parenting.

I've never done that.

*I have. Many times.

Give yourself a break, OP. Kids don't appreciate the good shit anyway!

Yes it's behaviour we'd all fee a bit shit about, but you deserved that bloody delicious egg!

Eat it. Enjoy it. Forgive yourself. Move on.

Just try noit to repeat it daily, yeah? 😂

Most? It’s Tuesday! How come you haven’t eaten all of it? You’re showing admirable self-restraint OP!

Ha fair play, hope it was good!

kids are fine with the cheap crap ones anyway, they don’t appreciate the difference in quality!

You're simply teaching them how to share x

I also remember my son getting a smartie infused egg a couple of years ago. It was bloody amazing and I did eat rather a lot of it and my husband was very judgemental. However, he got about 15 eggs or something ridiculous so I didn’t think it was exactly crime of the century!

My dad used to visit us from Canada in spring and always bought our boys a few Easter eggs. In the days before Easter, in moments of chocolate desperation, we used to open the boxes, prise off one half and then carefully rewrap.
This was in the days when the eggs were packaged in plastic inner holders. Our boys never twigged and thought that some chocolate eggs were only one half.

We had to give this up once they were older and saw that their friends’ eggs were whole. I feel so ashamed.

We eat our kids easter and christmas chocolate to save them from the evils of sugar. We are good parents just doing it for our childrens sakes. Save the children, eat their chocolate.

Haha! Mum’s privilege, is what that’s called OP.

We don’t get many, so enjoy it! It’s the thought that counts 😉

Sorry to digress, but one April I found a big xmas selection box behind the wardrobe I'd forgotten to give. Best find ever & I told no one 🤐

Who amongst us has not scoffed DCs lovely Lindt Easter eggs (bought for them by doting DGPs) and substituted them for something infinitely inferior!?

It’s ok. I opened and ate all the chocolate from a Lindt advent calendar at the end of November, then had to drive round the next day hunting for a replacement. No regrets though.

SHAME!!!

I typed that while eating Easter chocolate…..

Can't be helped. The selling of Easter eggs is too early imo so it's no wonder temptation gets the better of us before Easter Sunday.

I also have a confession…..My DD doesn’t like Easter eggs so I buy them all off her at well under the going rate and I have 1 per day for the next 9 days!😆 plus when it gets to Friday, I have that days egg with lots of Prosecco!

I was always having to replace my kids easter eggs if I’d bought them a bit early because I couldn't resist them just sitting there taunting me. This year is the first year I didn’t buy any as they’ve gone off chocolate now (adult).

Savouring chocolate creates family rifts. Your son has threatened the happy family balance leaving chocolate forgotten like that, you’ve done him a favour eating it up.

My sons walked in on me eating his before and just says oh.. At it again mother... Laughs and walks out

Ditto with his sweets, stuff in his mini fridge, pizza I'd cooked him...

I've never rationed stuff though so he has no panic or worry about if he'll 'miss out'

Many a nice chocolate has fallen into my mouth that belongs to one of my DC and they’ve never known

I ate a whole tray of Ferrero Rocher once when wrapping Christmas presents.

It was glorious.

Bought big Lindt bunnies for the 3 kids ... then had to replace them 3 times, as I kept eating them!

On another thread I gloat about the fact my kids only have 2 eggs a year, posh stuff, one from me/DH and one from the DGPs.

In truth it was only because when the eggs arrived unfettered in their legions it was me that fricking ate them all. The kids would eat one entirely on Easter morning and completely lose interest. But mummy? She was still chomping on it 6 weeks later, now wearing black stretchy leggings from Primark, VPL and all.

Had to put a stop to that. The posh stuff rule is because we’re none of us fussed about dark expensive chocolate so it sits there, uneaten for months, gazing at us mournfully from the pantry shelf init’s glossy gold tinted packaging… while we rummage for packets of quavors or pot noodles.