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How many Easter eggs do you buy DC?

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OtherCoraline · 11/04/2025 16:50

Just bought my Easter eggs for DC. They each have:

1x medium size smartie egg
1x medium size creme egg
2x small size eggs (one mini egg, one milky bar)
1x smartie bunny

And a packet of mini creme eggs to hunt around for.

I know that if you add the sugar value up, it’s a lot, obviously will be spread out etc but I can’t help but feel that it’s not lots? I definitely got more as a child and they won’t get any from anyone else. It’s just we have a holiday next week so I’m just trying to save money for that.

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minnienono · 11/04/2025 19:24

1 each, Lidl deluxe this year, £4.99

Weepixie · 11/04/2025 19:29

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 17:16

Are Easter presents a thing now?

I’m in my late 60’s and Easter was a time for Easter eggs but also a couple of new outfits as well. We’d also get a new hat to wear for the first time to Mass on Easter Sunday, it was out Easter bonnet and we’d wear it into very late summer when we’d be taken to buy a new winters coat and hat etc for the wi tee.

NotOnlyMercutio · 11/04/2025 19:30

One medium-large egg each from Lidl, which they insist they have to hunt for despite their advanced age.

I have bought some little foil wrapped eggs too and will decorate cakes with them.

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Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:35

I’m in my late 60’s and Easter was a time for Easter eggs but also a couple of new outfits as well. We’d also get a new hat to wear for the first time to Mass on Easter Sunday, it was out Easter bonnet and we’d wear it into very late summer when we’d be taken to buy a new winters coat and hat etc for the wi tee.

Maybe it's an age thing, a new outfit wouldn't really be a big deal & I didn't wear hats as dc nor do my dc & definitely not bonnets through the whole of Summer!

AliasGrape · 11/04/2025 19:36

I’m quite shocked by how many only buy one each if that. Not that it’s wrong - just that I got more in the early 80s as did my friends, all my nieces and nephews have always got a few each, so that when I had DD I just carried that on.

We have got DD the medium size smarties egg and a Cadbury’s chocolate bunny, plus a chocolate chick lolly. I’ll also buy a pack of the small hollow chocolate ones to do a hunt. She’ll get one from her grandparents, and our next door neighbour usually gets her one too. There are piles of aunties and cousins etc but we don’t tend to get each other’s kids eggs unless we’ve particularly planned to spend the Sunday together - and we are not this year, so there won’t be any from them.

It’s a pile of chocolate I know, I usually let her just have at it on Easter Sunday and I’m not denying she’ll get through a fair bit; but at some point she loses interest; might ask for a bit the next day and then she pretty much forgets about it - I think last year we eventually melted it down to make crispy cakes when she was having her cousins over.

Weepixie · 11/04/2025 19:37

It's all commercialism!

For millions of people the world over Easter is very important and their Easter Eggs don’t have any anything to do with commercialism.

am not sure why it’s more than 1 either, but 1 is definitely not the norm in DC’s (Catholic) school. We’re Catholic too and I used to get 7-10 eggs when I was a kid, it was more important than Christmas my grandmother always used to say

Im late 60’s and was brought up as a RC. Easter was beautiful, as was our sideboard that groaned with Easter eggs, and it’s still a huge part of my life even though I’m no longer a practicing catholic.

My children and grandchildren are Muslims but I always buy them Easter Eggs, make them Easter baskets and do an egg hunt in the garden. I have the most wonderful memories of Easter.

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:38

@AliasGrape but will your dc not have chocolate before Easter Sunday? We have already had some mini eggs & far too much dubai chocolate today.

Eastermuppet · 11/04/2025 19:41

God, I now feel that I give dc heeps, have got about 20 for him - differing sizes for easter egg hunt, he's a skinny thing and these will last ages

Tisfortired · 11/04/2025 19:44

Eldest - one large egg, two medium and a couple of the little Easter bits from M&S.

Youngest - one medium egg and one a little Easter chocolate chick from M&S. I’ve also got him an Easter colouring book, some new crayons and a little teddy.

And one large egg each for myself and DH 😏

AliasGrape · 11/04/2025 19:49

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:38

@AliasGrape but will your dc not have chocolate before Easter Sunday? We have already had some mini eggs & far too much dubai chocolate today.

We don’t tend to have lots of chocolate in the house, because I will eat it and if I don’t DH certainly will and we could both do without it!

She definitely has chocolate/ sweets, but it’s not an every day thing necessarily. Although there hasn’t been a day this week she hasn’t come out of school with some kind of sweet treat - Easter treat from teachers, sweets for classmates birthdays, crispy cake she’d made in class etc. So it’s not like she’s never had a sniff of sugar, but Easter eggs are still a novelty!

I do remember my mum saying she’d just get me a bar of chocolate once I got to a certain age “you get more chocolate in a bar anyway” and being adamant that I wanted an egg instead. I also certainly never forgot any of my chocolate and definitely got through it all. But the eggs were nicer in those days!

RamblingEclectic · 11/04/2025 19:54

My kids seem to get them out of their ears from everywhere else - my younger two's end of spring term ceremony was basically them giving eggs out as rewards for everything...

So, I buy one. They like to go looking through different shops as the eggs come out and telling me which one is their favourite, which I get shortly before Mothering Sunday.

Soon, they'll get a budget to go for the leftovers. That used to be the days after Easter, but I find it's getting earlier and earlier. It seems the week or so after Easter is the only time the eggs aren't in the shops around here sometimes...

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:54

But the eggs were nicer in those days!

True, I don't like much of the eggs in the supermarkets these days, the chocolate isn't very nice. My dc just aren't massively into chocolate but they do enjoy the actual hunting for the little eggs. I have some posh chocolates I'm looking forward to on the day, which I will eat in secret!

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:56

It seems the week or so after Easter is the only time the eggs aren't in the shops around here sometimes...

They aren't because the supermarkets now have them in stock from January.

Trumpsgoneloco · 11/04/2025 19:58

Tbh I think that has made them less special in my eyes. Seeing a crème egg used to be a big deal but now they available for half the year plus they taste horrible now!

Luckypinkduck · 11/04/2025 19:58

One but likely 2-5 from others as well so I can see it's more difficult id you know you have no family likely to buy them.

Hoppinggreen · 11/04/2025 20:02

In case anyone thinks I am being really tight only getting my DC 1 each they will come from here somewhere really nice - Slatterys in Manchester if anyone knows it?

Having said that if they agree to an Easter Egg Hunt (at age 16 and 19) I would be prepared to buy quantity over quality instead

MoominMai · 11/04/2025 20:04

OtherCoraline · 11/04/2025 16:50

Just bought my Easter eggs for DC. They each have:

1x medium size smartie egg
1x medium size creme egg
2x small size eggs (one mini egg, one milky bar)
1x smartie bunny

And a packet of mini creme eggs to hunt around for.

I know that if you add the sugar value up, it’s a lot, obviously will be spread out etc but I can’t help but feel that it’s not lots? I definitely got more as a child and they won’t get any from anyone else. It’s just we have a holiday next week so I’m just trying to save money for that.

Wow in what world is 5 lots of choccy treats pc not enough?! As someone who was previously a child, I can assure that is enough 😁🐣

Stinkbomb · 11/04/2025 20:06

None at all.

Fridaysgirl17 · 11/04/2025 20:07

4/5 here from me mostly the diddy €1 50 ones,1 Medium & I got them a randoms inclusions one on a whim this week. My dad gets them a kinder egg one so 6 maybe in total. I do a small basket for them but that will have a book,a little toy just like a hot wheels or something & I got some Easter haribos as well. I remember getting loads at Easter off my parents so I kinda went from there,though I have reduced it majorly in terms of tat etc. I am the only one who does it,they get nothing from their dad as the Easter bunny only visits my house apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️ so I do tend to overdo it because I feel bad which is silly

Abenny · 11/04/2025 20:09

big eggs- One from us. They also get one from their granny.

We also do a family Easter egg hunt so they’ll get some little eggs from that.

BertieBottsEveryFlavourBeans · 11/04/2025 20:11

1 large egg, 1 chocolate bunny and a few different packs of little chocolate eggs, little malteasers bunnies etc.

I used to go way over the top and they would also get loads from relatives (I only ever got 1 egg as a child and was always jealous seeing my friends with their huge piles of chocolate!) so I think I overcompensated and bought them far too many. Now they like to chose one (really!) big egg and I don't get driven crazy by lots of boxes and chocolate hanging around for ages (they still have chocolate and sweets left over from Christmas 😑)

RedOnyx · 11/04/2025 20:14

I have a 3 year old. I live abroad and they don't do the hollow chocolate type of eggs here. Just small eggs then chocolate bunnies/chicks/lambs.

My daughter has:

  • a smallish chocolate bunny that my mum bought when she recently visited (that was what my daughter asked for) plus a new dress from my mum.
  • another smallish bunny that she got from a local supermarket in exchange for colouring in a picture.
Two t-shirts from her other grandma.
  • She made a little Easter basket at an activity the other day so I've bought a pack of small milk chocolate eggs and will put about 3-4 in the basket for her.
  • From us she's getting a spring-themed Lego Duplo grab bag. Some wooden eggs for her toy kitchen. Two books featuring bunnies.
  • She'll probably a couple of small chocolate eggs in an Easter basket from nursery (she has the last 2 years anyway).
  • My partner's sister is coming for Easter so she may also bring something.

I actually think that's a lot, but then I used to get one egg from my grandparents and either a small egg or a small toy from my dad. Mum didn't get my sister and I anything because she said we got from our dad so she would only buy an egg for our younger half brother to make it (supposedly) "fair".

NewsdeskJC · 11/04/2025 20:15

1 each.
Pack of small eggs for hunting

Mum2jenny · 11/04/2025 20:17

1 egg per dc and 1 egg per dgc plus extra mini eggs for an egg hunt

LongLiveTheLego · 11/04/2025 20:18

Just one small egg and a hunt .