Easter eggs - none left

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I've gone to M & S and Sainsbury's this afternoon, and there are no Easter eggs left . Literally none at all. Why??

@callthevet

Went to Lidl this morning. One shelf with a beheaded white chocolate lamb

🤣🤣 brilliant!

I have to buy them at the very last minute, otherwise I get caught in an endless cycle of eat, replace, eat......

I’ve been out today and seen eggs. They’re not in supermarkets but all smaller shops like Tesco express and one stop etc have them.

Yes eggs are cheap come on no excuse!

@DeadButDelicious

Who leaves it til the day before Good Friday to buy their Easter Eggs? Seriously?

Me... and quite a few others according to this thread. I always get them around this time and it's usually not an issue. Clearly this year it is. Oh well. I doubt it's going to change my Easter egg buying habits that much.

I managed to get one for DD from my local co-op. Slim pickings though. Not sure how keen 4 years olds are on flakes but it was that or a very expensive Lindt egg. Which she wouldn't have appreciated .

But why????? I dont get it you have AGES

I wonder what the average egg haul is for the typical child in the UK this year.

To be honest, if most have a couple less it won't be a disaster will it. The rising obesity crisis amongst children and the vast amount of packaging they create is actually quite a problem.

Does any individual really need more than 1 or 2 eggs?

And to be honest, if you have a hild who only receives from you and you didn't go until today or yesterday, well that was a hit daft wasn't it.

And I'm not buying the 'I couldn't afford it until today' stuff either. Eggs could be had for under £1 and were far cheaper a couple of weeks ago. It's not a big expense like buying Christmas dinner to get a couple of kids an egg each.

I think what annoys people is that they end up having to pay £5 or £10 for an egg when they wanted to spend £1. I'd be annoyed too if I had to fork out £10 for some chocolate that was the equivalent of one medium sized bar in a big box. But to be honest I'd be cross with myself.

Buy a box of Roses or a bag of jelly babies instead if needed.

Presumably you've never been in the position of not having enough money, to have no understanding that even 75p can be a stretch for some?

I have been in that position and the thing is, if 75p is a stretch last month, it's also likely to be a stretch this month. You still need the 75p at some point. Your argument makes no sense, YouBroughtMeDaffodils.

This thread made me crave mini eggs. None to be found. Oh well.

Try Sainsbury’s or One Stop, if you haven’t already.

@MrsMaizel

I was hoping to get reduced ones 😂😂😂😂

This was me last year. Our local Asda had masses left for weeks afterwards (due to lockdown I guess), so plenty of bargains to be had.

I agree that saying the supermarkets have made it difficult for those who struggle financially and couldn't afford the 75p eggs were selling at earlier in the month but had to wait until today, were being disingenuous.

Yes, bigger purchases are often put off to payday. Easter eggs are not one of those, and most bargain hunters would know the best offers were around a couple of weeks ago and the eggs will be closer to full price now.

I think we've gone mad with eggs. No individual child or adult needs multiple full sized eggs and packs of mini eggs and eggs from an Easter egg hunt. Kids used to get 1 or 2 but lots now get 8 or 10 ....and eat them all. This thing about excess is a bit disgusting to be honest. I've seen peoole with a trolley load of 10 to 20 eggs. They might have lots of grandchildren, but it's unlikely to be 10. I think they were actually too cheap and that encourages people to buy too many and kids to end up with ridiculous amounts of chocolate. I suspect families with children with weight issues are particularly likely to over indulge in vast quantities of eggs.

2 years ago we had a big family Easter and I was shocked by how much chocolate we all accumulated. Each adult family member seemed to have bought for every child and every adult, inna way we hadn't before. I think I had 7 eggs and the DC had about 10 each. It was lovely and fun to have a time eating more choc and gorging compared to usual. But none of us needed days on end of doing that. So we enjoyed gorging for a day, kept one more each and then I gave the rest to a friend who helps run a night shelter. I was glad to have them out of the house and think I'd have binned them if i didn't have somewhere to give them. We are having a smaller gathering this year in the garden and we've done a kind od secret Santa for eggs...we will all get one but that's it from the gathering. Our DC will get one each from us too. Seems fine to me.

I remember a post from last week of someone seeing teens in a big group walking down the road together, each wth a 75p egg from Tesco, eating a whole one each. It was too cheap and encouraging greed.

How can we talk about obesity and BMI etc being a key factor in all kinds of illness including Covid being serious, and then pile people up with 10 eggs each?

But hey, you’ve got the money to plan and buy in advance (so have i), but fuck those who haven’t eh

75p in the space of 3 months isn’t a ‘budget for it’ situation and if your budget is so tight it can’t be accommodated you won’t suddenly be able to afford it this weekend. You’re not talking about ‘the poor’ you’re talking about ‘the unorganised’ and using poor people to try to validate that. As though Asda are disadvantaging low income families by not having more stock. It’s just not a valid argument.

You sound unreasonable expecting supermarkets to have adequately planned for this Easter given how much was unknown/up in the air. It’s not their fault they didn’t have a crystal ball. None of us knew what restrictions would/wouldn’t be in place I mean the entire country spent months with no real idea when we’d be able to see people again... not sure how Tesco was expected to know!

Blimey. Presumably you've never been in the position of not having enough money, to have no understanding that even 75p can be a stretch for some

I’m an animated typer so apologies if my exclamation marks annoy you. I also use my hands a lot whilst talking...just a personality trait!

Quite the opposite, it’s my first hand experience in family poverty (luckily not anymore) that makes me feel pretty confident that 75p Easter eggs don’t fall into this category. They’re not like budgeting for Christmas or birthdays (which does pose a big issue for low income families). Even tight budgets can accommodate a couple of 75p in 3 months.

Yes some families are on such awful tight budgets that 75p can’t be accommodated over a 3 month period (which is horrific) - BUT those people will not suddenly be rushing out to try and buy them this weekend which is the point I was making earlier.

If you can’t afford 75p over 3 months you aren’t turning up this weekend disappointed they’ve sold out. It’s people who didn’t bother to buy ahead because they assumed the supermarkets would still have them who are getting disappointed this weekend.

@ArcheryAnnie

Presumably you've never been in the position of not having enough money, to have no understanding that even 75p can be a stretch for some?

I have been in that position and the thing is, if 75p is a stretch last month, it's also likely to be a stretch this month. You still need the 75p at some point. Your argument makes no sense, YouBroughtMeDaffodils.

Eh? Outgoings and income necessarily identical each month, down to 75p.

Oh. I came on to say the Tesco Easter egg aisle near me is now full of gardening stuff but I can see it's turned into the usual rant & argument about greed, obesity & finances so I'll be off....

You’re not talking about ‘the poor’ you’re talking about ‘the unorganised’

No, you might consider buying something on pay day the week before an event, I don’t.

I was talking about people on tight budgets.

It’s just not a valid argument.

You really are spectacularly rude in how you speak to people.

@TopTabby

Oh. I came on to say the Tesco Easter egg aisle near me is now full of gardening stuff but I can see it's turned into the usual rant & argument about greed, obesity & finances so I'll be off....

Likewise. Someone people are just at it.

The example of “you wouldn’t expect to buy fireworks in November” is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on here. No-one I know would buy them before November. In fact most of the shops round here don’t sell them until October 28th/29th

@OpusAnglicanum

This thread made me crave mini eggs. None to be found. Oh well.

I can report that yesterday our Co op had one smashed Oreos egg left. They started displaying Easter eggs on Boxing Day, however, so we’ve all had time.

Do you live in a village beginning with S that has a massive co-op over the road from a small one?!

Wow some of you lot get very worked up about poor people. Surely everyone can afford a 75p egg and if they can’t then there’s something very wrong with their finances that a row between strangers on Mumsnet isn’t going to sort.

As a few people have noted above, this is probably because last year was a total wash out - my local supermarket was giving them away rather than having to bin them. I assume the supermarkets want to avoid that level of waste again and so have been more modest with their ordering.

@JustLyra

Oh. I came on to say the Tesco Easter egg aisle near me is now full of gardening stuff but I can see it's turned into the usual rant & argument about greed, obesity & finances so I'll be off

Likewise. Someone people are just at it

Your contribution to this thread has been arguing finances. I strongly suspect you and are are both the type of poster they are talking about so no use suddenly pretending you’re above it.

Also ‘you’re not a valid point’ isn’t ‘incredibly rude. You’re responding to me as though I’ve cursed or called names when in reality all I’ve done is have the audacity to disagree with you and explain why

Can I add “no lamb” to list of things that aren’t available.

Wasn’t on my delivery and substituted with pork which we had last week. None of the three supermarkets in my town. had any joints left including frozen. The butchers had closed early for Easter.
I went to the next town which has a different supermarket and got the second to last joint with literally another lady picking up the other at the same time closely followed by a disappointed lady behind.

It’s not isle in a shop!!! It’s aisle!!!

Can I add “no lamb” to list of things that aren’t available.

I have lamb for tomorrow.

I bought it ages ago. Tesco Finest whole leg of lamb. 2.7kg. £5

@EternalOptimist7

It’s not isle in a shop!!! It’s aisle!!!

Ooooh dear, keep your hair on, it's hardly the worst spag error in the world!!!!

Luckily DSs biggest desire at the moment is marmite.

There’s been a lack in our local supermarkets recently (every time I go to the shop he asks me to get some) so he now has a marmite ‘egg’ (jars) so will be very happy!

Not rtft so don’t know if it’s been said but maybe people are making up for last year when buying Easter eggs was such an issue.

Stories of police searching people’s shopping in the car park for non essential items and confiscating them might have put some people off.