To think I’m an adult and can have Easter Eggs early if I want?

[Chocolattay]

I’m not religious in the slightest. I will hands up admit that I stopped associating Easter with the religious aspect long ago. I do have a baby though and do plan to give Easter a significance for her. About new life, flowers starting to grow, brighter days coming etc. And she’ll get to have eggs. But for me, Easter Eggs are just chocolate.

Since they came out in the shops I’ve been treating myself to one a week. I don’t have much other chocolate or pudding (for some reason I find bars sickly but love eggs). I tend to get the premium ones (so Lindt, or one of the bigger Cadbury ones) and will eat it over the course of a few days. DH is from a very Catholic country where commercial chocolate eggs aren’t a thing, and he’s started doing it as well. DD is 4 months it’s hardly like I’m setting her an example of gluttony. It’s just a nice treat for me, a yummy chocolate egg and some truffles/smaller chocolates included. I’ve been doing it since uni and it’s a tradition for me now, an egg a week until they stop being sold. Once DD is older and more aware I will stop obviously as I wouldn’t want to ruin Easter eggs for her.

But for now, I don’t feel bad. It’s my money that I use to buy the eggs, so it’s my prerogative, surely? I am literally harming nobody.

Today I was in Tesco with DD and was in the egg aisle trying to decide on one. Took one off the shelf and put it in the trolley. Turned around and an old man was giving me a disgusted look. I sort of smiled at him and said “Well what do they expect selling them this early?”. He tutted at me and walked off. I was a bit stunned.

I find it ridiculous, it’s chocolate in an egg shape. We don’t ban oranges so that they can only be used for christingles do we?

YABU for giving me ideas!! I've always saved them for Easter but am now going to start buying and eating one per week until they stop selling them too

Hm see I don’t get the hype around mini eggs. The coating I find has been changed and is now tasteless. Hurts my teeth as well.

As a grown woman you can eat whatever chocolate you like whenever you like, I find it a bit of a stretch that anyone would give someone a dirty look for what they buy in Tesco.

@Cheeseonpost which ones are cheaper than the normal chocolate, I wouldn't mind a couple those

I hadn’t considered the man might have thought I was buying chocolate for the baby.

@Plexie

I would have thought the cost per 100g would be higher than buying a normal bar or packet. Is it the thinness of the chocolate in egg shell form that you prefer over bars of chocolate?

You are unreasonable, however, to think eggs, bunnies and spring flowers are religious - they're about celebrating spring.

It’s not

Take the cream egg one

A cream egg on its own is 60p, plus you then get a whole chocolate egg for just 40 p more

How would the man in the supermarket know you are buying an egg a week as a treat?? Whenever I see people buying eggs I assume they are starting to buy for Easter, didn't consider they might be taking them home to scoff. Now considering getting one myself!

Yanbu! There are not many good things about being an adult but this surely one of them 😃

Never eaten them early or bought them for myself as an adult, and am now wondering why not. Yes to the thin chocolate being much nicer for starters. I saw some small banoffee eggs in Waitrose the other day and hinted to my dp that they looked very nice - well, after reading this thread I’m going to take charge of my own destiny and buy them myself. And eat them before Easter!

Well obviously he won’t know the whole thing about me buying the eggs. But judgemental people in supermarkets are just that ,judgemental and will start thinking all sorts. When I was a teenager in the shop with my dad some stupid cow thought I was his younger girlfriend and made a comment, but that’s a whole other thread.

Shell shaped chocolate just tastes nicer than in a bar. And wrapped in that nice foil.
Buying them now is wise as prices go up and deals stop the closer to Easter it gets.

Absolutely not BU!
I very often buy reduced birthday cakes. The woman in M&S the other week asked if it was my birthday when I presented her with my £3 Percy Pig cake. I told her no, I liked cake and it was cheap.
It was a revelation to her that you could eat birthday cake as just cake😂

I highly doubt he was tutting about you buying Easter eggs. Most people do! I've never come across a judgemental person in a supermarket and my trolley usually has plenty of unhealthy stuff in it

YANBU though. Easter egg chocolate is the best, and even better when Tesco large eggs are half price in the run up to Easter

I believe 'shaped' chocolate has a much higher fat content in order for the chocolate to keep the shape. That would explain the difference in taste.

@Somethingsnappy

YANBU!

Please could someone tell me... Do they, or do they not sell Cadbury's cream eggs all year round?

No, I think they start selling them as soon as Christmas is over, then until Easter stock has gone .

I ate a Cadbury crème egg today.

ouch321 prices won't go up. And Tesco alway have theirs for half price about a month before Easter

I’ve had one! After humphing about Tesco selling them so early, I went and bought myself one! And I enjoyed it!

Always purchased the 99p Supermarket store eggs as soon as the offers appear and we always have then that evening as a treat, been doing this for 20 plus years.
In fact my friends loved the idea and we always post on Facebook to tell each other they are OUT.
Love the sin of eating it as a cheer up after Christmas is over.

You should have unwrapped the egg there and then and crammed as much into your gob as possible, then ask him if he wanted to tut at that. I am extremely childish though. You eat what you want, when you want.

Fine if you want to, but probably works out more expensive

There is a shop in Swords in Dublin who always have Easter eggs on sale in December. As children we would have a chocolate Santa and an Easter egg in our stockings. Never thought it was unusual because all our friends did too. I like OP love the chocolate in eggs and am blessed that my daughters don't so more for me. Enjoy your eggs OP

makes perfect sense! last year I gave up chocolate for lent - couldn't wait to go to the shop on Easter monday to get all the unsold eggs - thinking I might even be lucky and could get some reduced - only to find they were all gone (probably to make room for halloween...!) I was gutted. so will stock up this year if I do do it again!

We don’t ban oranges so that they can only be used for christingles do we

That doesn't even make sense. Oranges are older than religion. Oranges weren't invented. And nobody wants to ban Easter eggs.

Tbh I would tut at someone that started ranting at me because I looked at them.

@Chocolattay

Well obviously he won’t know the whole thing about me buying the eggs. But judgemental people in supermarkets are just that ,judgemental and will start thinking all sorts. When I was a teenager in the shop with my dad some stupid cow thought I was his younger girlfriend and made a comment, but that’s a whole other thread.

😲 PLEASE tell me you corrected her????

TBH, it's not behaviour I'd associate with adulthood particularly, but you do you. It's just chocolate. I'm amazed you were tutted at- are you sure? I do save mine until Easter but I buy them early because one Easer I couldn't get one as I'd left it too late and they'd all been raided.