Christmas officially over...?

Some posts spoke about chucking out chocolate. This morning I took unwanted gift boxes of chocolates, biscuits and other sweet items I don't eat to the food bank.

We're off for a week tomorrow, so Christmas has been put away. But I usually take everything down on New Years Day - a relic of having to go back to work early in January which didn't, somehow, feel Christmassy...

I was a bit shocked too at posters saying they'd thrown out chocolates and biscuits, etc.

I'm not sure if food banks will welcome them after Christmas though (they can be a bit strict like that), but maybe there's a care home near by or even a homeless shelter or a branch of the Salvation Army that would welcome treats being donated all year round. I'm sure the staff at the local doctors' surgery/hospital/hospice would take it off your hands too (for them, not the patients!). How about donating it to the next school raffle?

I always used to take it into work and leave it in the tea/coffee area because even if lots of my colleagues were on a diet, there were plenty who were not and it soon disappeared.

I couldn't just chuck it out in good conscience.

I'm with you on that Wilmaknicks, I couldn't throw edibles away when people may enjoy them. My parents were never Scrooge types but like most of my generation, I was taught to use up any scrap of food. When ours were in their teens, it was a family joke/reality, that whoever cooked on Thursday had to use what ever was left in the fridge. It served my girls well, they can all make a decent meal out of a few veg, the odd tin and rice or pasta.
I will take any uneaten chocs/biscuits etc to the food bank, I froze the turkey remainders and stock made from its bones. There is some ham left which we're using up but I'll freeze any left over ham tomorrow. I love the indulgence of Christmas, love the house being decorated and the tree looking lovely. I was brought up in a liberal CofE household and have continued that tradition in my adult life. So, it's 12th night for us before the decos go away till next year.

Why are some of you throwing away the chocolate ?!

To avoid the dreaded fatness. And clogged arteries.

And I so wish I hadn't chucked mine out.

How would high fat Belgian chocolate truffles be of any use to a homeless or hard-up, undernourished person? It would be like a smack in the face! I would rather donate a packet of Weetabix.

I think it's probably about removing the temptation Brupen.

It is a truly dreadful thing to take unwanted chocolate and the like into a workplace. Why off-load the fatty crap on others?

Truly ed

And to take it to a food bank is even worse!

Put yer hand in yer pockets and donate something useful.

It's not fatty crap jings if you haven't over-indulged and see it as a treat.

The foodbanks that I know of welcome 'luxuries' - who wouldn't want to receive some nice chocs or biscuits, along with the basic pasta, bread and tinned goods.

It is fatty, sugary crap,whichever way you look at it. And I think it would be cruel.

Now whose being unchristmassy ?

Some would say, Christmas is over.

And anyway, if I want to get back to healthy eating, why should that impinge on anyone's Christmas enjoyment?

I can remember last year jing when you searched the house for the last mince pie and stuff

Yeah well. It could still happen.

What a load of tosh jings. What's the difference between being given the 'fatty crap' as a gift and taking it into the office for others to eat?

Never sure when 12th night is precisely is it the 5th or 6th? and should they be down on 5th ie down before the 6th or down on the 6th at the latest

Because there could be people there trying desperately to stick to a diet for the good of their health. And you are just putting temptation under their noses.

It's not kind. You are only giving it because you don't want to get fat on it yourself anyway.

I take unwanted chocs and fancy biscuits to my local day centre where they are very much appreciated by the attendees at coffee and teatime. I certainly wouldn't bin them

I agree jings that's exactly why I did it, but it was also about keeping them out of sight and mind. Anybody at my work would have to actively go looking for the goodies and if they'll do that, then they'll go to the vending machines full of them.

I don't actually know where "my local day centre' is. And I doubt anyway that they'd want half a packet of Marks and Sparks Belgian truffles that I got free for buying my Xmas prints from them.