brightly coloured chocolate beans in a hexagonal tube

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usually she keeps dd1 overnight. dd2 reacts badly to them, so i tend to keep her off them. my mum says 'but isnt choclate bad for them' 'if you eat to much yes, but its better than most other sweets, so a mini dairy milk is fine, thank you'

New tube doesn't have the replacable plastic cap either so you have to eat them all at once.

And Misdee, I agree. I'm happy for DSs to have chocolate but not "sweets". DS2 tells everyone he doesn't like sweets

I don't recall any of my Ds's ever having a tube of these, maybe alittle box of them at a party but never a whole tube.
Ds2 hasn't had one single smartie in his entire life. He hates crunchie sweet type things.
Diary milk all the way in our house.

Smarties=Food of satan

I don't recall any of my Ds's ever having a tube of these, maybe alittle box of them at a party but never a whole tube.
Ds2 hasn't had one single smartie in his entire life. He hates crunchie sweet type things.
Diary milk all the way in our house.

Smarties=Food of satan

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misdee - we're the same - don't mind the kids having chocolate, but not really sweets like skittles etc. Although both seem to have an addiction to (our) licorice allsorts!

misdee, from a dental POV, chocolate is better too, as it doesn't tend to get stuck around the teeth for ages like jelly sweets or toffee.

And should be eaten after a meal rather than as a snack

dd (2) prefers chocolate. It took her ages to eat 1 jelly tot (dh's) as she just nibbled bits off it. She doesnt really know what to 'do' with other sweets.

DOH I can't save the caps with the letters on now..........buggerations!
how will i carry on.......wahhhhhh

DH's friend offered our DD & his DD the S word the other day & I think he was completely taken aback by my slightly comic NOOOOOOOOO. DD had them once & was bonkers for hours after. She doesn't really get normal sweets preferring chocolate herself but Smarties are banned, well for her anyway cos grown ups are ok with them . She hates Wotsits & Quavers too (have I brainwashed her I wonder).

Agree, dd1 goes doolally on these things or anything coloured.

All the crap that she and dd2 got for Xmas is in a carrier bag on top of the cupboard until they forget about it. Then it is coming into work with Mummy.

when I was (not so) little once brother and I had finished the hyper-beans, we used to jump on the tube and see how far we could make the plastic lid fly.
that this particular pleasure shall be no more.

DD and I have sucumbed to the pleasures of Panda brand Liquorice. Doesn't make you hyper, but you are running around like a loony - back and forth to the loo!