Are you buying Easter Eggs?
Mar 29th 2010 | 12:34 am
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Mar 29th 2010 | 3:14 am
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Re: Are you buying Easter Eggs?
I only allow people to buy easter eggs and I only buy easter eggs for family kids. My 3 kids love them. Mother-in-law doesn't share the same veiw and asks me a least 3 times if the kids want and egg or an item of clothes, get sick of repeating myself. They don't expect anything more than a cheap small cadbury egg which start at 99p whereas an item of clothes would set MIL back at the minimum a fiver each. Plus its a unique gift, something different than christmas or birthdays. Their excitement is building already.
Mar 29th 2010 | 7:51 am
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Re: Are you buying Easter Eggs?
We do a 'Hunt' every year. The estate agent who was selling our house last year found one of the eggs that the kids had missed when he came to take pictures.
Children love that sort of thing and it becomes part of their childhood memories. My daughter gets so excited.
My mom however, being ever practical, always bought us bars of chocolate as you got more value for your money and I'll never forget eating the dreadful 'chocolate flavour' egg my nan bought me one year, It looked gorgeous but it tasted like soap, yuk.
Children love that sort of thing and it becomes part of their childhood memories. My daughter gets so excited.
My mom however, being ever practical, always bought us bars of chocolate as you got more value for your money and I'll never forget eating the dreadful 'chocolate flavour' egg my nan bought me one year, It looked gorgeous but it tasted like soap, yuk.
Mar 29th 2010 | 5:05 pm
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Re: Are you buying Easter Eggs?
Fruit Loops?????I could not imagine anyone starting the day eating that type fo crap!Give me porridge,wholemeal toast and fruit anyday!I even used to make my kids home made muesli bars,atleast I know whats gone into them!
Used to make me laugh,at some kids parties there would be bread and butter sprinkled with.......Hundreds and Thousands?????Did they call it "fairy bread"?Or am I thinking of something else?????
Used to make me laugh,at some kids parties there would be bread and butter sprinkled with.......Hundreds and Thousands?????Did they call it "fairy bread"?Or am I thinking of something else?????My daughter has had it at every birthday party she's been to here so far. I think it's a staple.
Now before anyone gets on my case about my kids not having a life, she does eat all the birthday party crap, er food, every time she goes...chips, cheezits, sugary drinks, fairy bread, cake, sausage rolls. I think if kids are eating well 90% of the time, there's room for birthday party food in the last 10%.
Still, I used to hold her birthday parties at my house in Canada and serve cut up fruit with dip, carrot sticks/veggies with dip, whole wheat pita squares with hummus, along with the chips and cake. The kids ate it too.
Hey, we had porridge for breakfast today! My daughter ate her whole bowl and then complained that I didn't make enough so she could have seconds.
Oh and I LOVE sourdough bread...I can't imagine someone's never had it...you're missing out!
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Mar 29th 2010 | 8:55 pm
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Re: Are you buying Easter Eggs?
OMG Fairy bread! Aaargh. I gasped in shock when I first saw it. We don't have it or serve it in Canada (at least not our circles). I remember asking the party facilitators, "Um, that's not just bread and sugar is it?" Yup...white bread, margarine, and sprinkles. My kids don't even get white bread at home, but to coat it in sugar? Weird.
My daughter has had it at every birthday party she's been to here so far. I think it's a staple.
Now before anyone gets on my case about my kids not having a life, she does eat all the birthday party crap, er food, every time she goes...chips, cheezits, sugary drinks, fairy bread, cake, sausage rolls. I think if kids are eating well 90% of the time, there's room for birthday party food in the last 10%.
Still, I used to hold her birthday parties at my house in Canada and serve cut up fruit with dip, carrot sticks/veggies with dip, whole wheat pita squares with hummus, along with the chips and cake. The kids ate it too.
Hey, we had porridge for breakfast today! My daughter ate her whole bowl and then complained that I didn't make enough so she could have seconds.
Oh and I LOVE sourdough bread...I can't imagine someone's never had it...you're missing out!
My daughter has had it at every birthday party she's been to here so far. I think it's a staple.
Now before anyone gets on my case about my kids not having a life, she does eat all the birthday party crap, er food, every time she goes...chips, cheezits, sugary drinks, fairy bread, cake, sausage rolls. I think if kids are eating well 90% of the time, there's room for birthday party food in the last 10%.
Still, I used to hold her birthday parties at my house in Canada and serve cut up fruit with dip, carrot sticks/veggies with dip, whole wheat pita squares with hummus, along with the chips and cake. The kids ate it too.
Hey, we had porridge for breakfast today! My daughter ate her whole bowl and then complained that I didn't make enough so she could have seconds.
Oh and I LOVE sourdough bread...I can't imagine someone's never had it...you're missing out!
I'd serve a tiny bit of junk but the kids used to go crazy for the dips and raw veg,home made carrot cake and pizza ect.If my kids went to someone else's party,yes they would eat some junk,but would by their own choice go for a healthier option.Now my daughter is a mother herself,she(Like myself)cooks all her own babies food,no jars in her house!
