Tell Cadbury about your family’s Easter traditions - £300 voucher to be won NOW CLOSED

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With Easter fast approaching, Cadbury would like to hear about your family’s Easter traditions. Is there a tradition from your childhood that you’re passing on to the next generation? Or have you used your imagination to think up something that’s completely your own? Do you have a traditional family Easter lunch planned, or will you be spending the day working your way through your new chocolate egg stash? Is there a location you always like to visit over the long weekend? Perhaps your Easter Bunny devises egg hunts that could outfox even the wiliest of hunters?

Here’s what Cadbury has to say: “Easter is a really special time of the year where families come together and we believe Egg Hunts are the perfect ritual for the whole family to enjoy! We are really excited to hear about people’s Easter traditions and how they bring their families together during the Easter period”

Whatever your favourite family Easter traditions, share with Cadbury by the 12th April for a chance to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher.

Thanks and good luck!

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We make pace(?sp) eggs by boiling eggs with onion skins. They come out rich mahogany reddish brown, made glossy by polishing them with a butter paper or a spot of cooking oil on a piece of kitchen roll. Then they get mashed into egg sarnies for Easter teatime.

Family time and a nice roast dinner

we make hot cross buns and the kids help with pipine the crosses and brushing with beaten eggs

Chocolate eggs, a roast lamb dinner and we decorate hard boiled egg shells and judge the best, the prize being chocolate ;-)

for easter we celebrate at church then come home and have a mini christmas dinner and after christmas we have our chocolate eggs, on Easter Monday we decorate boiled eggs and roll them down hills, this is probably my favourite part of the day (and the dogs as she cleans up the mess)

We love Easter egg hunts!! We also love making cornflake cakes with cadburys chocolate, flake and mini eggs on the top yummy!

In conjunction with our neighbours we always do an egg hunt, it keeps the kids amused for ages, even the older ones

Easter egg hunt in the garden ☺

Our family have traditions around all kinds of events that take place in the year. It's easy for people to say 'if you love one another you should show it every day' but in reality, busy lives can get in the way. Easter Sunday we all get together as extended family for a meal - either in a family pub or at Mum and Dad's. The little ones get a small, chocolate egg and a present. The older ones get a small, chocolate egg and a small amount of money. The important thing is being together. None of us would ever commit to being with anyone but family on this date.

easter egg hunt with my nephews they love it each year

We paint eggs as celebrities then we have a quiz whoever gets the mist right wins a massive Easter egg then roll them down a hill. With cries of oh no Elton John has a massive crack.

From the MN thread about Easter traditions:

Here’s what Cadbury has to say: “Easter is a really special time of the year where families come together and we believe Egg Hunts are the perfect ritual for the whole family to enjoy! We are really excited to hear about people’s Easter traditions and how they bring their families together during the Easter period”

The idea that Cadbury's would attempt to drop the link to Easter is as silly as suggesting that any company would distance themselves from the marketing opportunities of Christmas.

We always have an easter tree, usually made from a nice looking twig and decorated to the rafters of chicks, little eggs and chocolate of course!

We do an Easter Egg hunt in our garden for our children which they love, although the weather usually conspires against us and we all get rather muddy in the process!

a traditional meal together with a roast dinner and all the trimmings. Easter egg hunt and games.

Our DC are still quite young, so we're only just starting to get our traditions. I like to do some Easter craft stuff the week leading up to Easter weekend. We tend to have a day out with a group of friends on Good Friday, maybe a National Trust egg hunt or similar. The Saturday is a quieter family day - games and films at home. On Easter sunday we go to church and then to my parents for a lovely lunch. Monday would be a park or something in the morning and then chilling out in the afternoon. DH and I have decided to get the DC a small present for Easter rather than an egg. They get enough chocolate from everywhere else and as they both have birthdays close to Christmas, it'll be nice for them to get a gift mid year.

(Oops, I was trying to quote this thread, not post on it!)

Why are Cadburys asking about Easter egg hunts? Haven't they decide to call the NT Easter egg hunts just egg hunts this year?

Easter is not inclusive enough apparently try telling that to my Muslim nephew and niece who love an Easter egg and understand what Easter is all about.

We used to have an Easter tradition of exchanging Cadbury chocolate Easter eggs but we won't be doing this anymore as Cadbury's now tastes pretty awful. A chocolate egg shouldn't bend when you try to break it, it should snap. Snapping is a sign of quality, properly tempered chocolate.

Also, despite being a very lapsed Catholic, I'm not hugely impressed with Cadbury's apparent attempt to secularise a religious event by replacing the word 'Easter' with 'chocolate' on their packaging and promotional materials.

Cadburys is just so wrong these days. I much prefer Galaxy!

There is at least one other thread on this subject (hence my mispost above).The only Easter egg brand that seems to mention Easter in my local Tesco is mars on their 'malteaster egg'. I don't think Easter eggs have ever been particularly branded with the word Easter, and they are certainly more associated with the chicks and bunnies side of Easter than the crucifixion side of Easter.

However, it's pretty obvious that they are all Easter eggs - what else would they be?

On the other hand, the word Easter is all over Cadbury's and national trust egg hunt promotional material. These are all the other events the National Trust is holding over Easter.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/easter-events-for-families

Christianity has been around for 2000 years. Commercially produced chocolate eggs have been widely available for less than 200. I think Easter can survive Cadbury's using the phrase 'Cadbury's egg hunt'.

When I was growing up my mum was of the opinion that the only acceptable day for buying Hot Cross Buns was Good Friday ( you can then eat them until you run out) but this year, shockingly, she bought some last week. So now I am the only one upholding that rule.

We always have fish pie or fish and chips on Good Friday. When I was little it was fish in parsley sauce but as I hated fish I usually got a Cornish pasty.

We never had Easter egg hunts when I was little, we were just given them, but we did used to decorate real eggs, and make Easter bonnets and chocolate nests. Now I do hunts with the children but we have never mentioned the Easter bunny.

It is our family law that all Easter eggs must be opened if not consumed, before breakfast. Other than that - anything goes! Usually a nice carvery somewhere

GARDEN EASTER EGG HUNT

We always start the morning with a hunt and kids get a small egg before brekkie!!!
Then toast & hot cross buns before church...perfect Easter Sunday :-)