Children will scoff an extra 8,000 calories in the coming week, with 78 per cent of parents buying Easter eggs for their sweet-toothed offspring.
A survey of 2118 parents with at least one child under the age of 10 carried out by vouchercloud.com revealed that the average parent spends around €34 on chocolate Easter eggs, with the average child receiving approximately eight in total, many from grandparents, uncles and aunts.
Most children eat all their Easter eggs in four days or less.
According to Repak, Irish consumers devour almost 9.5 million Easter eggs (more than 1,000 tonnes of chocolate) casting off enough aluminium foil to make 1.3 million drinks cans.
In chocolate terms we munch through over €34 million worth of confectionery. This is the equivalent of almost 5.5 billion calories, which would take almost two million marathons to burn off.
