Scoffing Easter Eggs before Easter

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According to DD1(23), I am ridiculously uptight to insist that the Easter eggs I have bought are not consumed until Easter Sunday. Apparently everyone in the world buys and scoffs them early, “because we can”.

So is she struggling with her impulse control (only half joking: very strongly suspect she has undiagnosed ADD), or am I laughably old fashioned and rigid in my thinking? Mumsnet jury please.

My mums like this. I on the the hand have sat in Aldi car park 3 times in the last month and scoffed a 99p Cadbury Easter egg I am a self confessed chocoholic though.

It appears nowadays that you buy one lot of eggs and eat them and then buy again, sometimes eating those as well and then buying again.

Then after Easter, buying the same ones that were six quid and now only cost £1.50

In my defence. I only eat the smaller sized eggs before Easter. I save the big daddy’s for Easter Sunday.

Plus it is so hard to resist when they are in the shops from the end of Feb!

And as for bags of mini eggs and galaxy golden eggs, they are completely acceptable to eat whenever you can get your hands on them, preferably all year round.

I will concede mini eggs and of course Creme eggs. So maybe it’s a generational thing. Young people are less constricted by conventions. Older people better at deferring gratification.

I buy some, put them aside, hide them for Easter morning, eat them after.

Scoffing them before Easter is like buying the Christmas presents, opening them and buying new ones.

I have relaxed enough to buy hot cross buns sometimes through Lent rather than just eating them on Good Friday, but I do think there is a value in holding on to an appropriate season and enjoying them then rather than having anything and everything any time you want and nothing being special and different. The joy I get from mince pies is that they are something I eat only for a few weeks a year. The same for Easter Eggs. They are a celebration of Easter, not Lent (although traditionally Advent was a more austere fasting season too)

Big ones are gifts. I wouldn’t buy and scoff those- not economical, better to buy a big bar of chocolate and eat that if you want it.

Mini eggs/malt Easter bunnies etc... fair game.