AIBU - to not buy DTs any Easter Eggs?

[Rememberallball]

DTs are 2 1/2 years old and have chocolate, biscuits or sweets at home (usually 1 bar or a small multipack pack) if they ask for them often after a meal or as a snack during the day. Neither are great eaters in general, though DT2 will eat some fruit and vegetables while DT1 is very much a noodles, pasta, chicken only child. To be honest I’m just glad to get calories in them most days that I don’t mind where they come from!!

Anyway, I don’t see much point in buying Easter eggs for them as they’re just expensive versions of the same chocolate or biscuits they have access to at home and I think they’re still young enough that they aren’t really going to understand not getting them if I don’t buy them!!

So - AIBU not to buy them?

I've asked my family to buy less eggs this year as every year they get far too many that go to waste. They want to bite into them all but don't finish them. But I do think its a bit mean if they don't get at least one or two eggs. And as they get older they're going to know they're different if they don't get eggs and all their friends do. I think families that don't do normal things like buy easter eggs and have Christmas trees to prove a point ( not cultural reasons) are a bit weird.

I personally would buy them a small egg they really are not expensive, I have seen chocolate eggs for as little as £1 in Tesco.

If family/friends will buy then perhaps don’t bother as too much chocolate is not good.

We still have Christmas chocolate in the house so will only buy 1 small egg each.

It's the occasion not the chocolate which is important here. My DC has an Easter egg hunt in the garden with little chocolates (tiny eggs, the mini Lindt bunnies) in plastic eggs. They're very excited by it.

We also have a big build-up with baking Easter biscuits, decorating eggs etc., doing Easter drawings.

You don't have to give them a mound of chocolate for Easter to be fun.

Expensive? You can get a nice one for 99p

groceries.asda.com/product/boxes-of-chocolates/maltesers-milk-chocolate-medium-easter-egg/1000345726626

We do an egg hunt, DD has loved doing one from when she could walk! DH and I end up eating most of the eggs but she has a couple. But it's a fun thing to do and they're a great age for tearing around the garden looking for eggs.

I've bought a bag full of hollow eggs and put them in a bowl. Me and husband help ourselves and 18 month old has one after her tea. Cost less than a quid!

At Easter I'll do a little hunt in the garden, some chocolate and some paper/plastic ones. She'll have loads of fun collecting them in a little basket. Easter is fun for toddlers! Don't suck the joy out of it

Why can’t they have the fun and excitement of an Easter egg hunt like most other children? There’s some really nice £1 eggs in Wilkos right now. I’d stop buying the constant shite that you’re already feeding them for a while and get some eggs instead? I loved doing Easter with my kids at that age. We’d pick a branch from outside and make little decorations to do an ‘Easter tree’, we’d do loads of little crafty things, make Easter bonnets and Easter cards for the grandparents. And then we’d do an Easter hunt on the day, they’d generally get one big Easter egg each and then a bunch of mini eggs to find. If they got too much chocolate from relatives then we’d melt it down an down and make little nests with rice crispies or cornflakes, they don’t tend to get eaten really anyway imo

Buy them eggs, don’t buy them eggs, at age 2 they’re really not going to care. Do people really need to ask others advice on this?

@SartresSoul

Will relatives buy them anyway? It doesn’t really matter at that age, they won’t understand.

Probably not. If my sister was visiting she probably would but is 200 miles away. DH family do very little for any holidays/celebrations (boys will get a card & gift from DMiL and card from one aunt/uncle for birthday or Christmas but nothing from the rest - ever!)

@guiltynetter

I think this is weird. Easter eggs aren't expensive. The small ones are always on offer. Even if you got them a £1 they're sometimes better value than actual chocolate 😅

Mind you at 2 and a half I don't think I got my first DD one as she was a bit young but not because of the cost!

When I say expensive, I mean in ratio to the amount of chocolate they actually contain and compared to buying that chocolate at any other time of the year. One twin would eat some white buttons or a kitkat while the other prefers Drumstick Squashies and would happily have a small treat pack.

@Bluetrews25

You've missed the point. DCs need to be given lots of easter eggs. So that parents can help with eating them

I threw away last year’s Easter egg as it was out of date and 2020’s got eaten just before Easter last year to save it being thrown away. The chocolates I was bought for Christmas are still on the side as are Valentine’s ones - I know that’s weird but it’s how I am at times. I’d far rather have a plate of dinner!!

@sillysmiles

I don’t see much point in buying Easter eggs for them as they’re just expensive versions of the same chocolate YABU solely for this!! IMO easter egg chocolate tastes different (nicer) to regular bars - the actual egg only though and it has to be cadburys.

But with LOs - I guess family will get them eggs.

Probably not - my family are a long way away and, apart from DH mum, we don’t see his family and they don’t do anything for our boys even though the majority are local.