Kids Get More Than 8 Easter Eggs. Er, No.

How many Easter eggs do your kids usually get at Easter?

The Easter weekend is nearly upon us and that can mean only one thing; almost time to try and stop your child from consuming their total body weight in chocolate before lunchtime on Sunday.

I don't mind admitting that I tend to be a bit stingy when it comes to what I allow the Easter bunny to deliver to our house at this time of year – so it boggled my mind to read in the Birmingham Mail that the average child in the UK bags, on average, 8.8 Easter eggs every year.

More than EIGHT Easter eggs! That's apparently double the recommended calorie intake for a whole week. Sweet mercy.

The paper also reports that the average time for children to scoff their first Easter egg is around 11am on Easter Sunday morning – sounds about right – and that nearly one in five kids have at some stage eaten so much chocolate over the Easter holidays that they've actually made themselves ill. Yep, also all too familiar.

This all comes from a study by Wren Kitchens which also found that the average household spends around £75 on Easter treats each year.

Er, nope. Not in my house. And judging by the pennywise skills of Playpennies parents, I bet that's way more than most of you will spend too.

I've taken advantage of deals on chocolate Easter eggs I've seen them (thank you, Co-op) but I admit I'll still end up panic-buying more chocolate than any of my kids needs before Sunday actually rolls around. There's something about seeing the shelves bare after months of them groaning under the weight of endless supplies of Easter eggs that suddenly makes me feel like I haven't quite bought enough.

Madness.

What about you? How much do you spend on chocolate treats at Easter, and do your kids amass as many as eight eggs each?

If so, do you let them scoff the lot as they like or do you make them ration them out over a number of weeks?

Or – let's be honest – do you end up scoffing them on their behalf in a selfless commitment to taking good care of their teeth and minimising their sugar intake? Ahem. Guilty.

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