Easter Eggs are so expensive this year!

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DS asked for a Lindt Easter egg this year. It was £12! Even the Cadburys ones are £8.
Hoping to grab some cheaper after Easter 🤣

I noticed that this year and a lot of them are large luxury ones. Seems daft when most of them go to small children.

Not necessarily. Cadburys eggs are £3.50 each in Tesco. Just don’t buy the huge overpriced ones?

Totally agree! Not just the price but I got a Crunchie one which would previously be considered Medium but now labeled (and priced!) Large and had one snack-size bar - huh 😩 AND some “eggs” are now flattened?? Just a complete con this year! Such a shame, I love Easter eggs but that’s a tough spend to swallow.

It’s £25 where I live, so £12 sounds cheap to me. I really don’t think £12 is expensive for a Lindt Easter egg.

Paid 14 euros for a large Galaxy egg this year from the expat shop where I live overseas. 12 euros for the Twirl one (for my 2 boys to share) which was only a bit smaller. Guy who ran the expat shop seemed to think it was a bit expensive but comparing with the prices mentioned on this thread it sounds about right (and quite fair when export/import charges are factored in!).

Price of cocoa tripled . Unless you pack it with alternatives , it will be cheaper and full of garbage too.

Egg pricing will have been based on peak cocoa pricing, its likely to be much better next year (or not if they've now established people will pay it)

I was going to post the same, I've been to Tesco this morning and there weren't loads but there were some of every type and most were on offer

Do they have Tesco where you live OP?

Yep I wanted a modest Cadburys type one for DD and they were all either ££ or really big/fancy.

YANBU I cannot fathom how we have gone from £6 to a large egg to £12 for half an egg! It's crazy.

They do seem more expensive, I've bought less this year. I used to buy the DC a big one of their favourite and a medium other. Can't justify £12 on an egg so they've just got a medium one each and a multipack of their favourite choc bars each instead. There were still aisles full in the shops yesterday whereas in previous years they'd all have gone by now.

Only they are currently charging a lot and filling it with rubbish!

I've noticed that they aren't doing the kind of eggs where you get other things in them for kids - bowl, egg cup, teddy or whatever. Nothing like that at all. Only a kinder egg with a toy in.
But yes, the price is too high for me personally. We've limited what we bought massively.

Loads of cheaper ones than that in Sainsbury’s

I did fancy a large Lindt one - who doesn’t but something over 10 pounds just seemed to much for personally to part with ! and you can’t really buy just one without it being unfair. So I’ve bought some small and medium ones, for a bit of variety.

We bought the Marks chocolate Easter animals. They are about £7? £7.50?

My kids get bored of chocolate quickly and/ or eke it out for literally months - often find myself baking with or throwing out ends of Easter chocolate in June or July - so we usually just get them one of those animals and a pack of mini eggs wrapped in foil for an egg hunt. Overall comes to about £9 per child.

Ludicrously cheap in Aldi - I've bought 5 - everyone is getting one

@Clowningarounthen don’t buy. I don’t and my kids were never into them (gently engineered by me 🙌😜💰) win win 🏆

Give a bar of chocolate rather than an easter egg.

£2 for an egg.

You choose to have a huge / branded one.

Cocoa harvest was poor - climate change impacts. Not helping the price rises…

www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/climate-crisis-contributing-to-chocolate-market-meltdown-research-finds

Give it a day ir so after easter then buy them half price.

I think people have cut down this year due to the price? In the past in the week before Easter there's been barely anything left but the shops still seem rammed this year.

Last year the Easter eggs in my local Tesco never reduced they just stayed the same price as before Easter

I got mine a few weeks ago in Tesco when they were on at a good price.
I was in Asda the other day and there were loads of eggs and they seemed pretty expensive so can see them still hanging around after Easter.