Why would he even mention that!…..

I ask my DH to hide all chocolate, biscuits etc away. if I want some I tell him and he gets some out for me. Eg I say please get me two biscuits/three chocolates or whatever and he fetches then.
I find this means I can have some if I really want to but it keeps me from nibbling until they're all gone... which can definitely happen.

Fruit & Nut - one of the 5 a day.

I can easily resist any of the Cadbury's products, the chocolate has a horrid aftertaste, same as Quality Street.
But show me a packet of Tangfastics! I really can't resist those.

I can't pre buy anything before the date it's for otherwise I eat it and have to buy another lot !

If my DH had come out with a comment like that, he would have discovered very quickly that I did not find it either encouraging or amusing, but then he doesn't always see things as I do! Sadly, I am now lactose intolerant, so no Celebrations for me , not even if I consider myself to be a Hero ! However..... the National Trust property a few miles away sells a vegan chocolate cookie to die for... I think I feel a visit is essential in the very near future !!

They are not the same since they changed the wrapping - bring back the old wrapping I say.

Sunseeker- i get to eat all the ones that are left after sons/visitors have chosen all the best ones😐& by then theyre past their best😕

It’s reassuring to hear so many are drawn to the chocolate boxes. Not just me then.
I’m intrigued to read so many can just not buy them. Wish I had that discipline.

I don't buy them because I know I will eat them. I go around supermarkets persuading myself to not buy because I know I will make myself feel sick by eating them

It’s either Lindor truffle balls or Hotel Chocolat for me. I do agree, the quality and size of both Roses and QS has deteriorated over the years. Oh dear…

Not me but DH. Bought 2 plastic boxes of Quality Street, gave out one at Halloween and then discovered he’d eaten the entire second box and hidden it under the first. Not quite as bad as going to do Easter egg hunt for excited GS. and finding the chocoholic had eaten all the eggs, leaving empty box to fool me 🤬

It sounds to me like he wanted you to open them...so he could eat them too ;)

I used to buy selection boxes etc for my kiddies for Christmas, and then ended up eating them, and buying more etc., so I know how you feel.

Well, hearing that the Bounty sweets are being excluded is not good news. I like those, no one else does so it meant I had plenty of sweets to eat. It seems no longer.....
To return to the original thread, I'm pretty good at not opening a tin of Roses, Quality Street etc, but once someone else has opened them, then a magnetic attraction seems to keep drawing me over to the tin.

Don't like 'em - never buy 'em.

Guilty - I had a tub of heroes in the cupboard for a week - gone, all gone and no regrets

The only way for me is not have them in the house. My better half keep saying "You're on a diet!" depsite my BMI being less than 25. I love biscuits, sweets and other things that are bad for me.

Treetops. An interesting theory but he knows I don’t like QS or the cheapie chocolate in those Easter eggs for hunting. But he will eat both to excess and then complain when his teeth give problems 😝

Honestly, the remedy is dark chocolate of the 70% cocoa solids kind. It's good for you and a couple of squares cure the cravings (no-one should have to live without chocolate!)

HiMay

The chocolate cravings bypassed me! I have no desire for chocolate at all and am not tempted by it in the shops. I buy it for DH, who LOVES it. I don’t know anyone else who feels like this. There might be a genetic link? My parents didn’t buy it either🤷🏻‍♀️

My husband and second son don’t really like chocolate. I remember when my son was around eight discovering one of his Easter eggs on Church Eve and it was completely unopened. I broke it up and shared it among the family that wanted it. The rest of us enjoy chocolate but I don’t really like Quality Street - I don’t get the hype around it. I would much rather have Roses. I am pleased that Bounty are being removed from some boxes of Celebrations and wish they would go one step further and get rid of the Snickers. At their last lesson before Christmas, I give each pupil a card and offer them two sweets from a tub of Heroes - l find this selection is possibly the best all-round and least exotic. Of course, parents and any younger children who might come along are also offered two sweets from the tub. One year, a seven-year-old pupil told me that one of his friends was allergic to chocolate. The expression on his face showed that he thought that was a poor do. His five-year-old brother was not to be outdone. He informed us that his friend was allergic to kissing!

Also, I can always stop after two or three chocolates. I just know I've had enough. I might go back for more in a few hours, but I don't stuff with them. And you know why I think that is? My mother - bless her - never made me eat what I didn't want. So I have good contact with what my body really needs - my theory, anyway. And I've never had a weight problem.

Self confessed alcoholic, I have a Christmas cupboard with a higher shelf that my poor arthritic shoulders can't reach properly and I stash the goodies there . Mostly it works 😂😂 when kids were little my personal stash was back of the salad draw

I am upset about the Celebrations tins may not having the Bounties in. I think they are trialling them to see what the reaction is.
Coconut always takes me back to the Caribbean...

Not alcoholic, chocoholic 😂😂😂😂

have, not having.