Easter eggs, have I left it too late?

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Parents have just sent me lovely email saying 'if you are going shopping please buy each of the family an egg from us'. Which is very sweet but I wasn't planning on going shopping. Traidcraft online has sold out and I don't like Cadbury or montezuma. Obvs don't want to take a grocery delivery slot from someone who needs it. But would love to do egg hunt and send my parents pictures of their happy grandchildren.

So any recommendations please for where I can get eggs from without being irresponsible or selfish?

Thanks in advance

Tesco is heaving with them.

Maybe message local friends or neighbours and see if any of them are going out for an essentials shop? Then ask them to add in a few eggs and drop them on your doorstep on the way home?

Obviously state you're not expecting them to go out in a special additional trip, as that somewhat defeats the point!

Failing that, cut out cardboard eggs or try dying the shells of real eggs for a hunt, and have something that isn't a chocolate egg as a treat at the end.

I've got 2 eggs that I was going to give to a friend before all this started, but we ended up cancelling our meet up, so we're doing a cardboard egg hunt followed by sharing out the 2 eggs we have. To be honest, the kids are so bored of our house, even this will probably be exciting

You can blow the eggs out of their shells if, like me, you have clumsy kids who would drop and waste precious real eggs! Egg blowing is surprisingly easy.

Could you make pace eggs and hide them? I just had a look at a couple of places online and they have no orders left before Easter, so if you really don’t want to shop, then DIY might be your best alternative?

www.lavenderandlovage.com/2012/03/traditions-on-monday-traditional-easter-marbled-pace-eggs.html

Maybe think of some indoor activity that your children would prefer to be able to do due to lockdown and buy that instead of eggs? Just tell the family member thank you for the Easter treat- we did x instead?

There's still some online here:

www.bettys.co.uk/easter/easter-eggs

Home bargains are heavily reduced

My small local corner shop had them today 2 for £8

still some here, its a pack of little chocolate eggs with a big dinosaur slime egg toy. they also have a unicorn one x

I'd do an egg or treasure hunt with clues and paper/cardboard eggs with some other prize, thank the grandparents and say you'll get them something when you next go shopping. Do you have eggs for the kids, just photograph them with those for the time being?

There's loads of eggs in the shops but obviously the guideline is only to go out when necessary, so I totally understand why you don't want to do that.

If you have ordinary chocolate you could melt it and pipe it onto baking parchment in egg shapes, and maybe sprinkle on some sweets if you have any. If you do it in layers, letting it harden in the fridge in between, they could get nice and thick.
Or pipe a lattice pattern to make more delicate ones.
Leave a hole at the top and you could hang them up on ribbons.
You can use a zip lock bag with a corner snipped off to pipe. Let chocolate cool slightly for better results

We are planning an Easter treasure hunt in the garden. Find a feather, find a blue flower, that sort of thing.