Are you buying Easter Eggs?
 

Hi all!What are your thoughts on Easter Eggs?Waste of money?Good value?I think this year I am going to buy my family a very small amount of choc(maybe a small box of chocs each or whatever)and maybe something else,something more useable,like a posh coffee mug or something??????So what are you buying?Any changes this year?Do you buy non choc related stuff?Please share!

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Only ever got one egg for each daughter and the husband. Never bothered with anyone else.

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I buy a bag of little eggs, we have an egg hunt which is fab and at the end of that there is usually a dvd or cd...choc is shit here anyways and it bloody melts lol

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Our daughter (9) saw a TV program on child slavery within the chocolate industry a couple of years ago and hasn't let us buy her chocolate since!!! Much to her brothers disgust! Easter is a bit of a nightmare time now as she makes everyone feel very guilty!!

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:lol:

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About 5 years ago we spent Easter with friends who put on an Easter Egg hunt each year... the kids decided it was a great tradition (funnily enough!) and its kinda ended up as our tradition...

I buy loads of those little tiny eggs and hide them all over the house.. the kids get up, race about looking for them, chuck them in a pile in the middle of the room and then have to negotiate who has what... I also buy them a normal egg.. its also mandatory that they have chocolate for breakfast.. tis the law apparently on Easter Sunday..

This year it'll get duller.. mine are a older now and although I am sure they will still have a laugh searching, its not the same as when they were 7 and 9, say.

Oh.. on the Saturday or the Good Friday, they have to make the basket or bag for the hunt... Ed probably won't being a cool nearly 14 year old (although you never know) but Ellie will pull out all the stops..

This year I have gone and got some nice Easter baskets for Viv's little ones and am going to fill them with Easter goodies for them ... the joy of friend's children.. you get to feed them chocolate and get them all over-excited, and then leave before the tears and tantrums start! :thumbup:

Em x

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I used to buy the kids afew when they were younger, but don't bother now. They used to eat the bars and not the egg. A waste of money imo.

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The eggs are the nicest bit :rolleyes: .. the bars you can get anytime of year ! Honestly, kids huh! they don't know they are born! :lol:

Em x

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Aawww Em's!That just reminded me of when my kids were little and they used to bring home from school and kindy those really cute paper type easter baskets with little eggs in for us!God I'd forgotten about that!Those were the days!

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Yes, my kids would freak if the easter bunny didnt visit.

In my house we have easter egg hunt and Ive always made little homemade baskets and bunny masks with the kids. They love it.

However the eldest has said yesterday he wants the big bar of chocolate this year instead of eggs.

Gems

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Great excitement in our house!! Daughter has just announced that Cadbury's Dairy Milk is going to be Fairtrade in Australia so we can buy that over Easter!! Her brother's are jumping around so much you would think they are giving it away!!!!! :rofl:

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Ah - all is well then :thumbsup:

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We do a 'Hunt' every year. The estate agent who was selling our house last year found one of the eggs that the kids had missed when he came to take pictures.

Children love that sort of thing and it becomes part of their childhood memories. My daughter gets so excited.

My mom however, being ever practical, always bought us bars of chocolate as you got more value for your money and I'll never forget eating the dreadful 'chocolate flavour' egg my nan bought me one year, It looked gorgeous but it tasted like soap, yuk.

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what we do is we make up cryptic clues as to where they will find the eggs and then there will be another clue there which leads to more eggs, makes it more fun for the older ones cos they have to think!!! then on the last clue they get the cd or dvd they have been after for ages lol

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:wub: :thumbup:

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why bother waiting for Easter when you can have a cadburys cream egg everytime you go shopping at Coles or Woolworths...

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The kids get one small item each. That's it. They don't get sugar most of the time...so when they do get treats, they're buzzing around in circles.

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What do chocolate eggs have to do with Jebus anyway? Don't get me started on Santa.

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its to symbolise the rolling away of the rock from the big mans tomb!!!

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mmmmh. And Santa? :lol:

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St. Nicky boy innit :sneaky::unsure::eek:

Dunno, I don't do Santa. It's always seemed ridiculous to me.

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Unlike a bloke rising from the dead 2000 years ago. That makes perfect sense!

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I don't do Jesus either :thumbdown:

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I'm with you on that one Japonica.Trouble was though,even though we would limit the choc our kids got from us(we were'nt tight but did'nt go overboard either)other people gave our kids huge amounts of the stuff and it used to make me feel sick looking at it all!:DI'm glad though my kids did'nt have sweets all the time,they are grown up now and havent had any fillings in the teeth so I must of been doing something right!;)

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Kudos! You must have done something right!

Yeah, if it's not relatives bringing chocolate and treats over, it's the schools handing them out...after their last assembly (my daughter's class was presenting), the teacher gave them lamingtons and biscuits for tea. The first week, my daughter brought home a Froot Loops-esque necklace she had made in art class...she proudly annouced, "it's cereal and I can eat it!" She'd never had that type of cereal in our house before...cereal shouldn't be dayglo colors and packed full of sugar.

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Fruit Loops?????I could not imagine anyone starting the day eating that type fo crap!Give me porridge,wholemeal toast and fruit anyday!I even used to make my kids home made muesli bars,atleast I know whats gone into them!:thumbup:Used to make me laugh,at some kids parties there would be bread and butter sprinkled with.......Hundreds and Thousands?????Did they call it "fairy bread"?Or am I thinking of something else?????

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Fairy bread. I remember reading about that for the first time on a BE thread ages ago and thinking "what the hell is that?"
I thought nutella on bread at parties in Italy was bad enough until I read about fairy bread.

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Every time I see a Nutella advert,it nearly make me puke!I don't know whether times have changed re that fairy break thing but is it an aussie thing or not?My kids grew up in Australia until they reached ages 9 & 11,and every birthday party they ever went to had the fairy bread???Cheap and cheerful I guess???:D

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Poached egg on sourdough toast!!! mmmmmmmm:thumbup:

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Sounds good!:thumbup:

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Wtf is that? :confused::blink:

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!! :D

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I only allow people to buy easter eggs and I only buy easter eggs for family kids. My 3 kids love them. Mother-in-law doesn't share the same veiw and asks me a least 3 times if the kids want and egg or an item of clothes, get sick of repeating myself. They don't expect anything more than a cheap small cadbury egg which start at 99p whereas an item of clothes would set MIL back at the minimum a fiver each. Plus its a unique gift, something different than christmas or birthdays. Their excitement is building already.

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mmmmm I love sourdough toast... you'll have to do a trip to Emundi Markets SC, I'll meet ya and take you too my favourite brekkie place and feed ya some! lol! Tis very nice!

Em x

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Most large chocolate eggs dissappoint unless you buy the best. Bars are best! Don't like milk chocolate eggs. 1 big egg each plus a few small ones.

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OMG Fairy bread! Aaargh. I gasped in shock when I first saw it. We don't have it or serve it in Canada (at least not our circles). I remember asking the party facilitators, "Um, that's not just bread and sugar is it?" Yup...white bread, margarine, and sprinkles. My kids don't even get white bread at home, but to coat it in sugar? Weird.

My daughter has had it at every birthday party she's been to here so far. I think it's a staple.

Now before anyone gets on my case about my kids not having a life, she does eat all the birthday party crap, er food, every time she goes...chips, cheezits, sugary drinks, fairy bread, cake, sausage rolls. I think if kids are eating well 90% of the time, there's room for birthday party food in the last 10%.

Still, I used to hold her birthday parties at my house in Canada and serve cut up fruit with dip, carrot sticks/veggies with dip, whole wheat pita squares with hummus, along with the chips and cake. The kids ate it too.

Hey, we had porridge for breakfast today! My daughter ate her whole bowl and then complained that I didn't make enough so she could have seconds.

Oh and I LOVE sourdough bread...I can't imagine someone's never had it...you're missing out! :thumbup:

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Yes I used to do the same with my kids parties!:DI'd serve a tiny bit of junk but the kids used to go crazy for the dips and raw veg,home made carrot cake and pizza ect.If my kids went to someone else's party,yes they would eat some junk,but would by their own choice go for a healthier option.Now my daughter is a mother herself,she(Like myself)cooks all her own babies food,no jars in her house!:thumbsup: