What would you do about Easter for a child who still hasn't eaten half of their Christmas chocolate?

[FrannyandZooey]

This is the first year ds has realised you are 'meant' to get chocolate for Easter. I usually get him some other kind of present (eg book, toy, whatever)

the thing is he got a few chocolate bits in his stocking at Christmas (and was given more by friends) and is nowhere near finishing them. He's allowed some every day after a meal if he asks, but he only remembers about once a fortnight. So there's plenty left. I don't see the point of getting more.

Plus I know some people will but I don't particularly want him eating chocolate every day, plus could do without the idea that every festival has to be celebrated with lots of crappy confectionery (we have plenty of treats and nice food etc but not always a ton of chocolate). However he knows what is in the shops, and that people get Easter eggs. I don't want him to feel hard done by. What would you do?

I am in awe of your ability to withstand the lure of the chocolate yourself. I generally eat at least 1/4 of the chocolate my children are given and if they forgot about it - well, I trough the lot

the papier mache eggs on here are rather lovely.

DS still has some of his Xmas chocolate and his chocolate from LAST Easter recently went in the bin! I like some chocolate but not much so don't tend to eat it on him.

I feel bad if I don't get him something so I bought him a pack of Smarties bunnies and Smarties. I like them!

Our cleaner usually buys him loads too but unfortunately it is not great chocolate so even DH won't eat it - that's what got binned recently.

A friend always buys her DCs Lego as she and her sister always got Lego when they were children.

Not sure I agree with buying toys as it becomes just another excuse to buy crap but I have bought a DVD for the last year or two.

Though wtf is an 'easter tree'???

Some good ideas here.

We were discussing this with MIL and FIL yesterday. We have a traditional family easter egg hunt in their garden. None of their 4 grandchildren have finished the Christmas chocolate. Like your DS Franny they have forgotten about it. But they are all looking forward to having more at Easter.

we have an 'easter tree' - a 'twig' decorated with various egg shaped things.

I hide loads of those fluffy yellow chicks in the garden and send DSs out to look for them. Then the chicks get swapped for one of those net bags of little chocolate eggs. Not too much chocolate and they spend a nice long time running about the garden looking for chickens whist I drink coffee/sit on my fat ar$e.

I think F& Z just has more self-control than some of us . I think F&Z that your ds sounds like he probably wouldn't mind if he doesn't get shed loads of eggs.

Last year I bought one good quality chocolate egg for the whole family to share and ds did get some from family (2 or 3 I think). This is way less than I used to get as a child for Easter.

I was a child who loved chocolate and I loved actually being given the eggs but tbh eating them all turned into a bit of a chore after a while.

I would ask for sweets months after Easter and would be reminded by my mum that I had loads of Easter eggs left. I would find this annoying because I'd want something different and I knew even then that most easter egg chocolate tasted s*te.

he's definitely not going to get shedloads
it's just will he mind if he doesn't get ONE proper egg in a cardboard doodah

oh they are such crap aren't they?
I must admit I do like them myself though - the thickness (or thinness?) or the chocolate is really wonderful, much nicer than a bar

ds2( kan of taste) said he rahter have a bar of green adn blacks

the ds1 said he d rather have a fiver.

then ds2 changed mind.
so we will all share the g and b

Nice idea Soupy - might nick that one

I usually buy the children a smallish Green & Black egg each for sharing (with dh eating most of them) and then lots of little ones for the Easter Egg hunt. They enjoy the hunt the most, and if I was going to skip a bit of it the big one would go. We made Easter gardens as children, but I think that was part of being very religious (we also fasted on Good Friday, so I think we deserved the chocolate!)

When my sister was little she really wasn't very fussed with chocolate and one easter my mum said to her "Would you like a goldfish instead of eggs for easter seeing as you don't like chocolate?"

Her face was total and she said "But...but...I can't eat a goldfish, mummy!"

Tee hee.