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Witzend Fri 03-Dec-21 10:16:50

Sleepless at around 3.30 this morning, I came down and scoffed most of a packet of clotted cream fudge that was supposed to be for dh’s stocking.
There are 4 pieces left.
I can’t see those lasting very long, either.

Yammy Sun 05-Dec-21 12:41:01

It's nuts and anything salty with me. I ate all the leftover nuts forgetting I had other things to make.
Also, DH goes walking once a week and I have the biggest sani filled with crisps ,ham ,salad and butter on the bap I am meant to be on a diet. Luckily I don't like Christmas cake or mince pies but they are in the freezer away from DH.
I can recomend Mary Berrys pistachio nutter biscuits ,I will have to make anoth batch!!!!
We both always helped out with the selection boxes and chocolate eggs ."Far to many to be healthy" for little ones.blush

H1954 Sun 05-Dec-21 12:37:39

OnwardandUpward

I bought some fudge for a present and have eaten it all as well! LOL

Next time I buy it, I must wrap it straightaway! grin

Well, you did need to implement a quality control check didn't you? ?
I'm resisting the two tims of Quality Street but I was gifted some licorice last week, just for me, a get well gift, and not much left now! I knew it wouldn't see Christmas ?‍♀️

Shaunwool Sun 05-Dec-21 12:36:41

I always buy my daughter a Terrys chocolate orange and wrap it for Xmas. Very often that gets scoffed and also the next one i buy before the third and final one stays intact ! It is nice to know its not just you.

Kalu Sun 05-Dec-21 12:15:31

I don’t have a particularly sweet tooth but the after eights with mojito bought on a trial basis we’re so delicious I couldn’t resis having 2 or 3 to accompany my many coffee breaks. Divine mouth melting joy.

My late aunt supplied my favourite chocolate Brazil nuts and homemade treacle toffee. Special memories.

DH is a lost cause who swoops in to the sweetie and biscuit cupboard as soon as I replenish it. Hiding his favourite Christmas treats, marzipan fruits, giant toblerone and fruit jellies is becoming more difficult as I rack my brain trying to remember where I have hidden what. I have no idea where all this goes as he is still slim.
It is not unknown for me to come across something very well hidden as late as January!

Happysexagenarian Sun 05-Dec-21 12:06:36

I bought 4 boxes of mince pies to last us up to Christmas. We ate them all last weekend!

I've also eaten the chocolate coins intended for our advent stockings. Probably won't bother putting them up now.

Youngatheart51 Sun 05-Dec-21 12:03:55

Oh gosh you have no idea how much better reading this thread has made me feel! On Friday I ate the top layer of a family box of biscuits! I can't have "nice" stuff in the house as if I know it's there my willpower disappears! I'm really good at not buying rubbish. DD on the other hand can't be trusted to go food shopping by himself! ?

henetha Sun 05-Dec-21 12:03:15

I bought a pretty tin with a robin on the lid, containing peppermint creams, to add to my sister's parcel before posting it. But greed overwhelmed me and I opened it that evening and ate the lot. Oh well, I now have a pretty, empty tin.

win Sun 05-Dec-21 11:57:09

I can't leave an open packet alone, usually manage if it is not opened. I never buy cake and chocolate for home, but my partner does and tempts me when I am there, I just can't say no. I did not eat cakes and chocolate nor drank coffee for 20 years or more due to migraines when I was working, I don't get them now so eat the lot and make us for lost time.

sandelf Sun 05-Dec-21 11:50:09

'It is a well know fact' that fudge does not keep - One box/packet/bag = one portion wink

nanasam Sun 05-Dec-21 11:48:06

Haha, we've nearly finished our 2nd bottle of Baileys. Well, they were on a really special offer so it's be rude not to, eh? [embarrassed] [don't care]

Nannan2 Sun 05-Dec-21 11:35:46

Ooh Baileys, in hot choc, I'd forgotten about that, I've some unopened in cupboard from months ago....??

TanaMa Sun 05-Dec-21 11:35:31

Now I feel very 'good'!! Keep looking at the big tub of Quality Street bought for my milkman's wife - so far I haven't yielded to temptation but your stories are breaking down my resolve!! Think I am going to have to put the wrapped present out sooner rather than later!!

grandtanteJE65 Sun 05-Dec-21 11:33:47

We binge eat chocolates once or twice a year, and at other times can walk right past the most tempting selection.

I think it is a kind of dispsomania, just chocolate-related not alcohol!

Nannan2 Sun 05-Dec-21 11:33:33

I stocked up with selection boxes for all my GC and have taken some to them already, but got 1 for my youngest son(18 now) plus choc coins (its our tradition)& he's asked for both already!?

GrammarGrandma Sun 05-Dec-21 11:28:03

I am SO lucky not to have a sweet tooth! I am overweight as it is and would be the side of a house if I scoffed sweets and cakes and biscuits too. I do like chocolate but only dark and am very abstemious about having it.

GrandmasueUK Sun 05-Dec-21 11:26:17

My friend said that for years her children thought that easter eggs were flat at the back because she ate that half of them. grin. My DD and I made inroads into a box of chocolates ate them all because she was feeling down and I didn't want her to suffer on her own. We also opened the Bailey's to put in the hot chocolate.

BlueSky Sun 05-Dec-21 11:23:35

Not guilty of binge eating/drinking but still overweight! angry

VioletSky Sun 05-Dec-21 11:21:15

We haven't touched the Christmas chocolate I've been stocking up on but, the Christmas alcohol is another story lol

Cycorax Sun 05-Dec-21 11:18:59

Agree with you 100 percent. Most chocolate is so full of non chocolate ingredients e.g palm oil, sugar, E442 etc that I can barely taste the chocolate. If I could get Black Magic as it was made 40 years ago, then I might well be tempted to have a choc fest.

Scottiebear Sun 05-Dec-21 11:16:57

Love, love, love fudge. Sadly, a rare treat as its so full of sugar. I remember Woolies pic n mix fudge being my favourite as a young woman.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sun 05-Dec-21 11:16:26

Glad I'm not the only one. I make a bit of a habit of this so it's no wonder I can't lose weight as it's self-sabotage, isn't it? Oh well, only half a stone to go and it's proving the most difficult to lose.

1summer Sun 05-Dec-21 11:14:29

Was I a bad Mum, when children were little I used to worry about the amount of selection boxes and sweets they had for Christmas so I ate them ?‍♀️ Same with Easter Eggs! This was until son was suspicious and started to keep a list of what he had. Now when I buy chocolates I have to wrap straight away. Also supermarket was having a buy 6 bottles of wine with 25% off, so bought 6 good quality wines for Christmas- drank 3 already.

Gwenisgreat1 Sun 05-Dec-21 11:10:11

I gave my DDs their advent calendars shortly after I bought them (otherwise I would have enjoyed) them D1 will probably have consumed her and my SILs by now, she might have kept her paws off DGDs. DD2 is a bit more restrained.

Barmeyoldbat Sun 05-Dec-21 11:06:02

Thought it was just me, but so far box of Black Magic just gone, now it’s the Baileys, I thought it would’ve a good idea to have just a drop in my Horlicks but I had to buy another yesterday. Also two Christmas puddings. How many more days to go?

Naninka Sun 05-Dec-21 11:02:50

In my defence... most of these consumed by DH.
But he hates mince pies and twiglets... so I don't know where they went. ?