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How to limit the eating of all the easter eggs

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Dosey · 23/04/2011 17:53

We have got loads of them and chocolate is usually a treat in our house. I really dont want to spoil the fun of easter but at the same time I dont want dds to be constantly asking for chocolate. It is going to take weeks to get through them all by which time I am concerned that they will think its an everyday treat. Should I just let them totally pig out over the next couple of days or should I restrict what they are having and stress everytime they have some that they are having a treat.

Any advice would be grateful thank you.

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colditz · 23/04/2011 17:57

Let them pork them all in one sitting. otherwise chocolate becomes an every day, nagged for thing.

moondog · 23/04/2011 17:58

Why have you got so many then?

ColonelBrandonsBiggestGroupie · 23/04/2011 17:59

Erm - you stick them in a high cupboard and allow the dcs to eat them as and when you determine. Why so many?

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Danthe4th · 23/04/2011 18:03

Totally let then pig out for one day, breakfast,lunch and dinner, keep one for the end of the week and melt down the rest for crispy cakes.

juuule · 23/04/2011 18:07

Let them pig out for the day. Or eat them yourself:o

Deaddei · 23/04/2011 18:07

Mine get 1 each.

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washnomore · 23/04/2011 18:29

I think free access for a day then the suggestion about using the remainder for cooking is a good one.

I sympathise - DS is only 3 and has been given 3 plus other treats by family and friends. He can go mad tomorrow then we'll either nick the rest or use it to make something.

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WishIWasRimaHorton · 23/04/2011 18:32

why all the astonishment that the kids have so many easter eggs? DD got one from every group she goes to (toddler / music etc); DS came home with one from school. all the well-meaning neighbours and old folk we know give them easter eggs and i don't want to seem ungrateful / rude and ask them not to give them to them. the old folk love giving them the eggs!

the problem is, of course, rationing them. i ration them to a small bit a day - and yes, it lasts for ever (unless Mummy gets there first!)

quickchat · 23/04/2011 20:30

Im a bit surprised at all the 'why so many'?

Obviously the OP isn't into feeding them loads of chocs or she wouldn't have started the post.

Im guessing Family and friends keep handing them in which is what I find.

My DS is nearly 4 so this is the first year I can't eat thembin them!

Im going with letting him gorge himself until he feels sick!

The dentists always tell you it's not how much they eat but how often and for how long.

So letting them have it alot over, say a 2 week period of little exposures is more detramental than just a one off burst, half an hour later brush their teeth then thats it, end of eggs.

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Seona1973 · 23/04/2011 20:51

my 2 have already eaten a couple of theirs (not in one go) and they still have about 7 each left. We went visiting family last week who live 300 miles away and they all gave us eggs to bring back. I may have to help eat some of them too!!

WishIWasRimaHorton · 23/04/2011 21:25

is it actually right that we should be 'encouraging' our children effectively to 'binge' on chocolate? i know the dentist's theory of 'get it all out of the way then brush their teeth'. but on the other hand, are we not teaching them by letting them gorge themselves on chocolate twice a year or so (assuming this also happens at xmas) that chocolate is something that you eat in vast quantities and then have none of for ages? isn't it better for them to learn the little and often thing, even if it causes more whingeing in the short term.

written as someone who can't eat a single chocolate but always has to eat a fistful. and who never has chocolate in the house because once it opens, it has to be eaten. at once...

saltyseadog · 23/04/2011 21:28

I can't see how an annual pig out will do them any harm whatsoever.

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GwendolineMaryLacey · 23/04/2011 21:32

Oh bloody hell, the annual pig out at Easter has been going since at least the mid '70's when we were kids. It's really nothing to get your knickers in a knot about. They will sick of the chocolate far sooner than you think, then you can hide/bin/melt the rest. It's not a cause for major panic honestly.

WishIWasRimaHorton · 23/04/2011 21:32

no i'm sure an annual pig out won't damage them (although may cause digestive issues in the short term!! too much chocolate gives mine runny bums). however, if they aren't 'allowed' chocolate throughout the year and then are just given shedloads in one go - is that actually a good approach?

i honestly don't think i could let my 2 eat all the choc they have for easter in one go. they have about 6 easter eggs each, as well as packets of mini eggs, chocolate bunnies etc, and that's just at my house. i'm sure they have the same, if not more, at their fathers.

and i haven't bought any of it, and neither have my parents, so it is all stuff given to us by friends and groups they attend...

i think that much would actually make them ill.

WishIWasRimaHorton · 23/04/2011 21:35

ok - i have obviously missed a rite of passage, as i never had a pig out on easter chocolate as a kid. maybe that actually accounts for my warped relationship with chocolate. [busmile]

this thread must need a few more easter bunnies!

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QuickLookBusy · 23/04/2011 21:38

When mine were younger, I would limit how much they ate, and also use some in a cake.

From about the age of 6 I was so fed up with them asking "can I have a bit of egg?" I just let them eat their eggs whenever they fancied some, as long as it wasn't too close to lunch/tea time.

I can still remember their faces when I said this, they were [bugrin] [bugrin] [bugrin]

QuickLookBusy · 23/04/2011 21:41

Will add, that DD1 still had chocolate left months later, whilst DD2 would have none left after about 3 days.

saltyseadog · 23/04/2011 21:44

It reminds me of the time my BF came to stay with us over Easter (aged 11). We had both been given more chocolate eggs than we knew what to do with. She ate ALL of hers, and then proceeded to vomit on my bedroom carpet. My carpet was never the same again after that. But we were happy :o.

My parents were always very relaxed about these sorts of things though (and still are as GPs).

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Dosey · 23/04/2011 21:45

hi and thank you for the posts. The eggs are from friends, grandparent's friends, next door neighbours and groups we attend. I am not at all a stickler for treats or chocolate I just wondered what everybody else does. Where we live easter has come at the end of the school holidays, normally when easter falls at the beginning at the holidays I let them have a week to eat them all. They can have a good binge over the bank holiday with a little help from me and dp.

Happy Easter x

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Al1son · 23/04/2011 21:46

It makes no difference whether you let them pig out or ration it. If they're going to have an unhealthy relationship with food they will have it because of the general attitude to food within the family or because they're hard wired to it or one of a million other reasons..

Easter, Christmas and Birthdays are the three mornings a year my girls are allowed to get up and eat whatever they like for breakfast and the rest of the morning. Obviously I get them to eat something more normal for lunch but chocolate egg for dessert is a must.

I think you should chill and let them be their own guide for once. It does them good to find out you get to the point where it makes you feel sick.

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