to think i should be able to buy an Easter egg on EASTER Saturday

[Loislane78]

Just been to Sainsbury's to get an Easter egg for me and DP to share tomorrow but there are none left; zilch, nada, ZERO eggs. The person in the store looked at me like I had two heads when I asked where they were; "Easter Eggs you say? No, got none left. Might be a couple of cream eggs near the tills".

The 'seasonal' aisle is now full of summer gardening equipment (look outside people!!!) and confused looking mums wanting to buy last minute eggs.

Perhaps I should start shopping a season in advance; buying my Christmas turkey in September and Easter Eggs on Boxing day. Shit, I better start queuing for some sparklers for Bonfire Night in case they run out of those in November too.

Get it together Sainsburys. Some of us live in the moment.

oh dear. DP has just popped out to the shops for something so spurious it can only be my easter egg.

I'm going to have to share the one I got for him, aren't I? Just as well it's a fancy arse number from hotel chocolat really!

Serves him right, I sorted DS and him 48 hours ages ago.

Why did you not buy your Easter eggs on Christmas Eve, when they first started selling them?

Easter Saturday is for buying 'Bak 2 Skool' stuff ready for September and the first of the Halloween Haribo packs.

Tesco Eggstra (fnar!) near me had a few left this afternoon but there were people actually pushing and shoving to get to them. It was a little scary!

Well today i have learned if i want an Easter egg

• that is not a Double Decker (with mug)
• and costs less than £70

...I need to get it Boxing day. I'll add it to my Christmas list, I mean Easter list, oh heck

Bloomin' supermarkets!!!

I am reminded that at Easter in 2002 I was working at a vair posh chocolate shop (makes Hotel Chocolat look like Thorntons). Someone bought a £600 Easter egg which was about three feet tall and two feet wide. For their child.

I know mine has come from here, as I've seen the bag [bugrin]
I bet it was because everywhere else had sold out!

i saw some of those horrible cheap chocolate ones somewhere today the disney ones. YANBU however, i brought mine in february [bugrin]

no boxed eggs in asda halifax today but hundreds of packets of cadbury mini eggs and very yummy they are too bought myself two packets

Yes, none in Sainsburys yesterday or Asda today. Really annoyed, luckily got DSs last week but not DH, in the end I got him a 4 pack of Bounty, a 4 pack of Double Decker and a bar of Dairy Milk, which came to about the same price as an egg and will (hopefully) last him longer! Not exactly eastery though.

Hmm. Glad it's not just me.

We weren't planning on really doing anything for Easter as it doesn't feature on the radar for either me or DH (DH is working tomorrow anyway) so a while back I bought one very small egg for DD (age 4) and thought no more of it. Until this morning when clearly someone said something at the birthday party we went to, and she started going on and on about how the Easter Bunny was coming and it was tomorrow and she was so excited.... so we thought we ought to play along a little bit as it was starting to feel as though if we didn't we'd be as mean as if we had not let Father Christmas come!
So DH nipped off to the local co-op. Absolutely nothing, not even a packet of mini eggs.
He came back, reported failure, and I headed out to Tescos.

Where I found the ubiquitous Double Decker Easter Egg with mug. What the hell did they do? How come all over the country Double Deckers are the only ones left????
There was a mash of people standing round the half inch length of shelf containing the double decker eggs, all clearly pondering whether that was suitable. I went to the pick and mix in the hopes of finding chocolate eggs there - nothing. So I went to the chocolate aisle and went instead for a box of Heroes on the principle that DD will just be excited to get chocolate and won't notice it's not egg shaped....

I did notice however that the Spa I drove past on my way home seemed to have eggs so I did an emergency stop and ran in to investigate. DD now has a chocolate rabbit, a chocolate chick and a Kinder egg (all similar sizes - the rabbit and chick are not big) for her 'hunt', as well as a Thornton's egg with a butterfly on it to find at the end (which I am rather chuffed with - it was half price too!). They also had creme egg eggs (if you see what I mean) and chocolate button eggs - two for a fiver. So I got a couple of extras (for me and DH - if dd has all this chocolate we need some way of preventing ourselves eating it!). In the end, it was successful, but the crisis of egg hunting was quite traumatic!

I bought lots of the 3 for £whatever mini easter shaped chocolates as soon as they hit the shops, ages ago. For the kids easter hunt in the morning - if I can be bothered to get my bum in gear and arrange it.

Then filled my boots a few weeks later, with lots of the BOGOF £1.50 eggs from Tesco. I have a bag of 14 waiting to be exchanged with family tomorrow. Just over a tenner for the lot.

I learnt last year that you didn't buy the eggs the second they hit the shops as they generally come out with a better offer once they've been on the shelves for a few weeks.
But also that you don't leave it too long as they start to put the prices up... and if you leave it til the bloomin last minute, they will have run out.

I don't think that the supermarkets are taking them off the shelves... they will want to sell every scrap of stock they have. They have bought pretty much the right amount if just a day or two before the event they are selling their last few and not having to reduce any.

There was none in Asda, Morrisons or Coop today. Luckily Aldi, had some of those cute bunnies.

I went to Asda Thurs evening, no bloody eggs!! Is there a egg shortage this year!!
Easter bunny got myxomatosis??
Yesterday went into local coop caramel eggs were all that was left so bought those for friends DC, bought our DGS a toy car instead!
disclaimer: he is only one 1 yr old!

There was half a dozen easter eggs left in my local Tesco this afternoon; there was also a dozen or so people actually fighting over the things, with staff standing between the eggs and the people!

[bushock]

Weird,went to waitrose today and v little left.had wanted mini eggs for post kiddie bed time pigging but all gone!

Going shopping today for Easter eggs is like doing your Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. How long have you know it was Easter Sunday tomorrow? Long enough to get the eggs before Easter eve!!!

Tesco's said their fingers got burnt last year with the heat wave and loads left over so all shops ordered less this year .

We had a heat wave last year? I can't even imagine at the moment.

I was saying this earlier, the supermarkets don't seem to have over stocked this year. I got some ages ago but we accidentally ate them one night, I replaced them on a Tesco order but they substituted them with creme egg ones. One child hates them so I went to Sansburys this thurs, expecting to see the usual piles of cut price ones.

Nope, it was only the more up market ones going. I couldn't get one child a luxury one and the other a cheapo one so I got two of them. The spare creme egg one was donated elsewhere.

Today I realised that after buying 6 eggs we had nothing for us adults. I usually get something for us to share, we would survive without chocolate, it's silly but nice We're visiting inlaws this weekend and went to one supermarket today, intending to pick something up with the shopping, nothing. Walked down the high street past 2 newsagents and nothing went into a small high street supermarket and found a tiny display of the last dregs.

We've been practically giving our last ones away today (petrol station) as no one was interested :-/

Last month I got a 99p Christmas cake from our local petrol station :)

And this is why I refused to let dh eat one of the Easter Eggs last night! I had already replaced 2 on Thursday! As it happens the small Tescos I went in today had some so I got him one from there, but I was taking no risks on Good Friday!