Any tips/advice how I can buy Christmas junk food without being tempted to eat it all...

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I want to buy extra special junk food for Christmas but I am afraid I will eat it as soon as I get home.

I already ate all the Mini Stollen from Lidl

Any advice/tips would be highly appreciated :) TIA

I am terrible for this! But I need to buy it gradually to spread the cost...

This year we have taken to DH taking it to work and storing it under his desk... slightly desperate measures... but hopefully we now won't need to buy it twice ;)

I've been adding a few extra bits with our weekly shop for the past month or so. They go straight in a box in the garage and I just forget about them then. If they were in the cupboard I can guarantee I would have scoffed the Aldi sea salt fudge already

The only way forward is to:
a) Don't buy it or
b) Keep it in a sealed box in the shed and bank on being too lazy/the weather too cold to creep out and grab it

Don't buy it! Put the money you want to use for it aside in a jar each week and then get it just before. This way you will also buy half what you think you want as when you see it all in a trolley it will amaze you.

So this is why people have sheds! I need one too now! Better ask Santa ;)

Keep it at someone else's house? Neighbour, friend, parents? Or at work?

Ask your H or children (if old enough) to hide it?

Put it in the loft so it's more of a chore to get to so you won't be so tempted?

I'm the other way with Christmas goodies. I won't let anyone touch it until Christmas Eve at the earliest and take great joy in watching my Christmas Stash build up over the weeks (I start in October buying 1 or 2 items each week in the shopping so it's not so painful financially, all in one go) but then there's only so much you can eat so we end up with all sorts of stuff left over well into the new year

I've been buying bits at a time, to spread the cost. I'm also trying to lose weight, so I definitely don't want to scoff all the Christmas food too early! I've just been putting it all in a separate cupboard, and hoping I forget it's there!

I used to be terrible for this.
If they are for the kids chocs and stuff, wrap as soon as you can.
You may open them, but it may put you off a bit.

If it is family stuff or just for yourself - a kindly neighbour perhaps.
Mine is brilliant and looked after all our junk food last year and we collected it the day before xmas eve.

Put it in the loft.
I find that I'm lazier than I am greedy.

Don't buy it until Christmas week?

I haven't bought anything yet, it's only early November!

I keep all my Christmas edibles at my mums, there's just no other way! I went through 5 boxes of quality street and 12, yes 12 chocolate oranges before Christmas last year storing it at home!

Work on the principle that it would be the same as playing with the presents before Christmas?

Is there anything you don't like? I try to buy cakes for DH and the children that I'm not very keen on and if I'm buying them sweets I try to buy a small pack each, not a massive bag that I then finish. This is in general rather than for Christmas though.

there is always loads left on Christmas eve.. best time to go is after 3pm (trust me, they dont run out!)