How to stop eating easter chocolate?

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  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Flush it before you swallow it.
  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    I just eat one or two pieces a day until its gone. I log it and all is well.

    Logging it prevents me from overeating the candy because I know how many calories each piece is worth. Not going to eat more than I log when it's so calorie dense.
  • coronalime
    coronalime Posts: 583 Member
    Place them in zip lock bags in an assortment. Put the amount of calories and sugar on each bag. Read that before you eat it. Then hopefully you will just throw it away. If your kids shouldn't eat it. Why should you? We are fat for a reason.

    Another idea is to make a dump cake or brownies . Take all chocolates and place in a cane batter. Bake cake or brownies. Cut and freeze or cut up everyone have a piece and throw the rest away or give away.
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    Pour gravy over them. That will make them less appealing....
  • JButlerEagle
    JButlerEagle Posts: 45 Member
    Reminds me of Frog and Toad children's book. In the end will power only worked for them when they got rid of the cookies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYh1eZh1Ew (book is better)
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    If you don't want them eating it all anyway, have them choose X pieces of candy apiece to keep, then get rid of the rest. Give it away or toss it. If there's somewhere to donate it, that would be a nice thing to have your kids do.
  • PurpleOrchid531
    PurpleOrchid531 Posts: 28 Member
    I had to hide it in the pantry because if I saw it I would sneak a piece here or there. We went to a relative's house on Easter so my kids got some chocolate candy they didn't like, so I first got rid of that by bringing it to work and we only kept the "good" stuff.
  • SusanKing1981
    SusanKing1981 Posts: 257 Member
    I got 8 eggs for Easter. I adore chocolate, it is one of my favourite things and I eat it daily. I am planning on opening one at a time and having a small piece every night. I will weigh the piece and fit it into my calorie allowance. These eggs will likely last me a good few months. I won't have to add chocolate to my food shopping for that entire time. I am looking forward to the coconut Easter egg the most.
  • chandanista
    chandanista Posts: 986 Member
    We don't get that much, but what we do have goes into a basket that hangs from a hook in the ceiling. Among the four of us we have different preferences, so a variety is kept. I've been fitting about 50 calories of candy into my days for a week now. I threw out Halloween candy about 2 weeks ago, fortunately everyone in my family is good about candy regulation (except the little guy in regards to chocolate. He will walk away from other things but rarely chocolate. Hence the ceiling basket.)
  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Dump it, you and your kids don't need it.
  • sllm1
    sllm1 Posts: 2,130 Member
    Out of sight.

    Freeze.

    Give away.

    Or, just remember your goals and stop eating it. :)
  • tlflag1620
    tlflag1620 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I don't eat my kids' candy, it belongs to them. Then again they got all their candy from the Easter bunny, who quite smartly chose things I'm not very fond of, and rounded out their baskets with bubbles, chalk, and stuffed animals ;). They got a reasonable amount of candy, so I'm not worried about policing their intake. That said, since your kids got too much I would sit down with them and have them select their favorite items to keep, in reasonable quantity, and either throw the rest out (better in the garbage can than on your hips - it's not doing anyone any good in either location) or pawn it off at work or through some other venue (the VA is a great idea!). As for avoiding eating any of their remaining candy - get yourself some really good quality dark chocolate and have a square or two a day when the urge strikes. Just make sure to account for it in your intake.
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    edited March 2016
    I would just throw it out. For me, I just forget about it in the freezer and it goes bad anyway.

    In the future, just don't buy that much Easter candy. Most Easter candy is crap you can get year round anyway. Even Cadbury Cream Eggs you can find again in September/October as spooky Halloween eggs.

    We buy candy year round and once you get used to having it around, it becomes 'meh'. Why binge on it when it is literally always going to be there? I know this is hard to believe, but candy can get old and boring, just like any other food if you have access to and eat it all the time.

    For kids's Easter baskets, yeah, get them a little bit of candy, but also some other non-edible items that are fun and they need. Like I got my 10yo daughter her first hair dryer for Easter and she was over the moon excited about that. She didn't whine that she only got 4 pieces of candy (2 Cadbury Cream Eggs, a snack sized bag of Cadbury Eggs, and a 100g Dove chocolate bar).
  • keepupwithjack
    keepupwithjack Posts: 44 Member
    I employ a strategy of being really picky. I got my child candy for Easter that I don't like or aren't my favorite--butterfinger, kit-kat, etc. No peanut butter cups, because temptation. I do the same at Halloween.

    I like very dark chocolate and I have a little bit every day. A little goes a long way. With that to look forward to, all that milk chocolate, which is much lower in quality in my opinion, isn't a problem.
  • skorsk
    skorsk Posts: 32 Member
    I have very little willpower.. I would have to not go near it or toss it. Out of sight out of mind.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    We could that putting the candy in a cupboard worked well to cut down on random munching without depriving everyone.
  • DYELB
    DYELB Posts: 7,407 Member
    Cover it in asbestos.
  • MommyL2015
    MommyL2015 Posts: 1,411 Member
    Step 1: Choose not to eat it.
    Step 2: Repeat step 1.

    It's your kids' candy, so it's not yours anyway.
  • 100df
    100df Posts: 668 Member
    I am with the people who said toss it. Trash can burns way more calories than I do.

    I really want to practice moderation. In my opinion it is the most sane way to eat. I will not torture myself though. If there is something I will not be reasonable about, I remove it from my existence.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    My wife had me put it upstairs in the laundry room because "she wasn't likely to go a flight of stairs for candy" but "the kids could still get to it."

    Personally, when I want to stop eating something, I just stop eating it...

    ...and if I wanted a piece of candy, a flight of stairs would be not even a little deterrent.
  • LBuehrle8
    LBuehrle8 Posts: 4,044 Member
    Send it to me please!!! I'll eat it!!
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    There are places around here that take certain kinds of candy as donations for chemo patients. If you have some hard candy, that may be an option, or donate some to shelters.

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