Furious with in laws!

[Bigjohnandthekids]

Apologies if this is all over the place I’m seething with anger. My partners in laws invited us and our 5 little ones over for an Easter party, we have always had a strained relationship with the in laws as they seek to undermine our parenting choices. We have raised our little ones on a strictly dairy free organic diet, any excessive sugar sends the little ones absolutely loopy for hours resulting in an all mighty sugar crash! Our in laws are well aware of the way I’m which we raise the children, well low and behold we arrive at the Easter party to baskets full of cheep sugar ridden dairy milk eggs for the children!! I was furious we had spoken to the in laws prior offering to provide suitable eggs for the baskets but they insisted they were capable of doing it them selves.. capable my arse!! Needless to say the children were running round like maniacs all night and had an all mighty crash, the littlest one has been ill ever since. I’m absolutely irate and don’t know how to handle this going forward!!

what was op supposed to do? pry them out of their jaws?

Oh get over yourself OP. Pompous and probably lying anyway

We are in the process of finding out if they have any allergies and intolerances. We suspect some kind of adversion to e numbers given the reaction. While we wait we have decided to avoid these things to limit reactions

Bets in now for how many of the 5 kids are going to be obese by 25 because they'll go absolutely ham the minute they have control over what they can eat.

Seen it happen. Everyone I know now in their 30's who was raised with heavily restricted diets like this and excessively militant parents is fat and struggles with binge eating. You hate to see it.

I loved the cheep eggs too.
10 out of 10 OP
Eggscellent.

Parent them by saying "just have one"? Maybe you let your children dive into a basket full of eggs like pigs at a trough. Most don't.

I’m not sure where I stated our marital status or how this is relevant?!

Well there is no coming back from this! How dare they?
How.
Dare.
They.

I would certainly write them a strongly worded note then go no contact and block them. Zero contact with the kids going forward - this kind of abusive grand-parenting cannot be allowed to stand!!! In fact I’m surprised there weren’t more exclamation marks in your OP as you see I myself am tempted to use three. And even that feels restrained.

I would also make it clear to dp that if he doesn’t back me up then the relationship is OVER. He can speak to his parents by himself but their names are never to be mentioned in hearing of the children again.

PS I assume your OP is a joke. If not… seek help. Or a nice bar of chocolate, always makes me feel better!

Parents of a child at one of my child’s sports clubs thinks their child has never eaten sugary snacks or fizzy drinks when at other kids parties their child is the only one stuffing their face and gulping down all the forbidden fruits.

Cheep eggs😂

They are still at the age where parents still accompany the kids to parties so so far we haven’t had that issue but we will cross that bridge when it comes

Thank you, I’ve tried to add a bit of a light spin on this situation to cheer myself up. Glad it didn’t go unnoticed

They could have politely refused them or not had as many! That's hardly the grandparents fault! You sound hard work.

how is this relevant? did op mention their marital status? no

I still don't get why you let them eat so much if they are small cream egg size one now rest for the coming week.....any over indulgence is going to make them feel ill.....but perhaps that was the I told you so aim like when they used to force kids to smoke several cigarettes in a row to put them off?

lets not mum/dad shame anyone here. op came for advice not for a public hanging.

Kids that stuff their faces with chocolate nearly always feel afterwards

You need to be careful about creating "forbidden foods" that will automatically become very desirable and will make them more likely to overconsume when you are no longer in control.

I had a friend whose parents were strictly "anti sweets". At 9 or 10 she was stealing from the church collection plate to go to the nearby sweet shop and stuff herself with as much as should could in the short period of time she had supposedly gone to the toilet. As an adult she is the only person I know who has huge bowls of sweets and chocolate in all the downstairs rooms in her home. Banning sweets just created a very unhealthy dynamic around sweet foods

Thing is OP that the non- dairy eggs are full of additives and E numbers. They’re better eating quality chocolate.
daiey is a better source of calcium too.