Easter Bunny Visited Nursery today...

[casawasa]

....and gave all the children some chocolate bunnies and a Cadburys creme egg. Does anyone else think getting a creme egg from nursery is inappropriate? I am not opposed to treats but a creme egg is just a big ball of sugar, which my 4 year son definitely doesn't need to get him going.

[Aitch]

well, perhaps i have an enormous jamie oliver like tongue but i can't schlurp the fondant out of the mini ones which is The WHole Point of the creme egg for me.

[Aitch]

me and dh were posl at dd afterwards, she ran around the park for an hour non-stop. i think it's the most amount of sweet stuff she's ever had (with the possible exception of ice-cream). if she got more of a taste for chocolate maybe our potty-training plans might go better?

[ChickenSoupDragon]

(The mini ones are a far better balance of sickly to chocolate IMO, Aitch It also occurs to me that had I weaned BabyDragon on chocolate and creme eggs life would have been far less stressful... (

[ChickenSoupDragon]

Seriously, unless they are serving creme eggs for breakfast every day you don't need to worry. BabyDragon has scoffed the creme egg, a hollow egg I couldn't prise out of her grasp (and didn't want to endure the 20 minutes of crying which would have ensued causing both her and me anxiety and distress) and quite possibly some more... she still wolfed all her lunch, dinner and some pizza for supper and went to bed without a murmur. She does not get chocolate or sugary treats every day so I'm not worried.

[FrannyandZooey]

nah, they're too sickly for me to want my preschooler to get the taste for
much too sweet
whether or not I like them myself is another matter entirely

[hoxtonchick]

ds got a huge amount of chocolate at school today (inc a proper big easter egg as a prize for his easter basket ). we have spent the afternoon watching dvds & eating it. hooray.

[Aitch]

they are the PERFECT amount of sickly, imo. have you tried the wee ones? rubbish. not sickly enough.

[pinkteddy]

oops read it too quickly. Re: supermarket - avoid chocolate aisle at all costs!

[cazzybabs]

i think you are oner-reacting. it is a nice gift....it is fairly common practise. do you want a ban on all cheap plastic tat on the grounds it is destroying the earth. fair-trade chocolate egs would be great but expensive.

[ChickenSoupDragon]

28% sugar is less than a lot of children's breakfast cereals.

(I'm not convinced it is only 28% though - I think it was 28 grams "per pack size" with an egg being 39g...)

[FrannyandZooey]

ds got given chocolate egg at group he goes to today - was very plain (and thin) hollow milk chocolate egg - gave him a thrill and was an ok treat to have after lunch

would not have been chuffed about a creme egg - they are full of shit, too filling for a preschooler and just too damn sickly

[Aitch]

tell them that only nurseries get to hand out creme eggs, that'd work.

[Feelingbetterslowly]

I LOVE creme eggs and we get them thrown in for free with our lunch once a weeks, so I save mine for dd every second week and she loves them, feel like a bad parent now! She also loves divine bars though and flavoured mineral water ice pops. Nursery got them to colour in paper easter eggs tho-sensible!

[casawasa]

28% sugar, I checked

Don't think I'm over reacting, my son does get chocolate and "treats" but a creme egg is so ridiculously sugary that it seems innappropriate for a nursery to give out. One day they have a visit from the local dentist telling them how to brush and giving out free toothbrushes and then creme eggs the next day.

So next time we go to the supermarket how do I get him to understand that he cant have a creme egg - if nursery give them out it makes them OK in his eyes.

I don't think they even talked about what Easter is.

[edam]

should try reading the most recent posts before posting again, though!

[edam]

ah, I see creme eggs do contain dried egg white. here

However, I can put my halo back on as I'm a veggie who buys free-range eggs (and I do check the ingredients in anything that contains eggs).

[tortoiseSHELL]

Don't know about nurseries, but I have made a real effort with the kids this year to be fairtrade and eco - we made fairtrade Easter Egg nests today (fairtrade chocolate and 'Divine' Fairtrade eggs), and I'm making some ice cream now with home laid eggs (from our chickens). They like looking for the fairtrade symbol.

[Botbot]

DD got a homemade chocolate birds' nest cake made from All-Bran from her nursery.

[ChickenSoupDragon]

Pinkteddy, it's 48% fondant, not 48% sugar.

[Aitch]

mmm. fondant...

so are your nurseries all fair-trade eco etc? ours isn't i don't think. but dd only goes some afternoons so she doesn't lunch there.

[pinkteddy]

48% sugar!! that's without the glucose syrup, sugar syrup etc etc. No wonder they are so yummy!

[Aitch]

i think dd felt the same way. apparently her first attempt was just to shove the whole thing in her mouth.
we are also bribing her with two sparkling white chocolate buttons if she uses her potty. (not having much effect, so i guess she's not ready).

[Nemoandthefishes]

all DC nurseries gave them creme eggs..of course I confiscated them but let them keep the mini eggs..

[tortoiseSHELL]

It must be the fondant I think.

Here are the ingredients...

Cadbury Cream Egg
Description: Milk Chocolate with a soft fondant centre.
Ingredients: Milk Chocolate: Milk, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Fat, Emulsifiers: E442 and Soya Lecithin, Flavourings. Fondant: (48%) Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Invert Sugar Syrup, Dried Egg White, Flavouring, Colour: Sunset Yellow.

[nelliesmum]

LOATHE the Easter Bunny...complete Americanism. Father Christmas gets all the credit for the Christmas Presents so I'm claiming responsibility for the Easter Eggs.