Easter Eggs

I used to give £5 to my GCs , then they could spend it on whatever they wanted, my choice was never what they liked!
They rarely bought chocolate.

Don't mention it but this Easter just buy them the little £1 Smarties
Eggs.
My Dd always asks me not to buy the big eggs, as it's too much for them. Especially when they usually get about 10 eggs each.

Yes Buffy I know what you mean. I have spoken with daughter who is very strict with other grandkids chocolate intake. No, they have no eggs left. Yes kids do get a lot of eggs but I must be old fashioned in thinking a grand parent's one would be given to the kids. Just me.

Personally I would say “I see the children haven’t had the Easter Eggs I bought for them. Would you prefer I don’t buy any this year?”

I don't buy chocolate at Easter because mums and dads asked me not to. I give each DGC £5 for their money box or I buy a garden toy per family. The only time I give chocolate is if any of them are here for a meal over Easter. That won't be this year will it?

Yes don't mention it OP.

Esspee I am minded to be saying something like that in the run up to Easter. I also generally buy them a gift of an item of clothing.

I would never think of buying chocolate or sweets for my grandchildren.

I use cardboard eggs and put a little gift inside.

I would ask if they would like Easter eggs this year. If the answer is yes just get smaller ones there not expensive.

I think cos I'm on my own and have no kids my friends all buy me Easter eggs and I ended up with 7 last year and I'm normally still wading through my Christmas chocolates at Easter. So they have all been told please don't buy my anything for Easter, there is no need to at all. I want them to buy just their grandkids, who I hear them all saying get far too many, so I think a little gift or toy far better too. I always remember as a child we always got a small one in a lovely teacup with a matching saucer from my granny. They were so pretty.

The grandchildren in question.had a good few eggs. Likewise my other grandchildren. The parents of the two I am talking about are very easy going with their kids' sugar intake and that is not really my point. I just do not understand why you would let your kids munch through say 6 eggs each over time and leave their Nana's, not so cheap, sitting there.

Maybe they forgot?

Easter is on April 4th, why take any notice of a 31 March sell by date. The eggs are not going to suddenly become festering lumps of food poisoning when the clocks strike midnight on the 31st March.

The purpose of the use by date, is a question of saying that after that date the manufacturere will not guarantee the quality of the chocolate, like bread, it can go stale and develop a stale taste, but this takes months to happen.

If you are that worried, why not just put the eggs into the freezer until the day before or a few hours before you give them. That will arrest the point at which the eggs suddenly become inedible.

I bought two lots of eggs this year as I thought I would buy early and ended up testing them?. I would just put £5 in a card as has been suggested. I don't suppose they considered who bought what egg.

Small, cheap (£2.99 and £3.50) vegan Easter eggs and treats from the Ethical Superstore for my kids and the littlest grandkids - and a fiver for the bigger ones - job done!

When you get a lot of chocolate, here are two ways to rank them - gobble up the good ones first, or keep the most expensive ones to look at and admire for a while before destroying them. Maybe the grandchildren (or their mother) are keeping the best ones until last?

If you must say anything at all about what order they choose to eat their many gifts, then make it jokey not whingey. "Those are too nice to eat, aren't they? I hope they taste as good as they look!" will endear you more to children and their mother than, "I see my Easter eggs aren't good enough for you."

Next time, don't stretch your finances to give more than you can afford - it makes the way the gift is received too important to you, and too much of a demand on the recipient. To a child, chocolate is chocolate, they don't differentiate between expensive and cheap.

I can see that you are hurt, but I would try no to take it personally. They probably don't even remember who gave the eggs to them. They will have been grateful at the time that Nana gave them an egg, and they will have been added to the haul.

Also, I wouldn't make the jokey comment people are suggesting. Anyone with an ounce of sense will see through it!

That was my thinking too, Elegran, that the Gruffalo and unicorn might have been left till last because they were the best ones. This is an old thread anyway - I bet they've been eaten by now!

I've bought Lindt bunnies for all of mine this year. I'm sort of regretting it as I can see that from a child's viewpoint they don't look as big impressive as a cheap Easter egg.

One year when GD2 stated that she 'wasn't into chocolate', I bought a china egg and put a small piece of jewellery in it - can't remember what it was! The boys wouldn't say no to chocolate, but as they're all teenagers now, I'm not guessing!

Thistlelass just another slant on it .

My 2 boys never ate any Thornton’s eggs they were given as they didn’t like the chocolate. Perhaps this is their reason?