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Many consider it a treat, but parents are throwing away a whopping \u00a3300 per year buying junk food treats for their children.<\/p>\n

Putting ‘McDonald’s Parenting’ aside, mums and dads are paying an average of \u00a3312 per year, per child on chocolate, sweets, cake and savoury snacks.<\/p>\n

MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, found that parents were buying the treats an average of four times a week, with a weekly average spend coming to \u00a36.<\/p>\n

Stopping bad behaviour was the main cause for 34 per cent of parents to buy the treats but 27 per cent did so simply because their child wanted them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many consider it a treat, but parents are throwing away a whopping \u00a3300 per year buying junk food treats for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol-news"],"yoast_head":"\nParents wasting at least \u00a3312 per year on 'treats' - Bristol News From Chopsy Bristol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/chopsybaby.com\/magazine\/parents-wasting-at-least-312-per-year-on-treats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parents wasting at least \u00a3312 per year on 'treats' - 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