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!

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

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

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!!

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!

Em x

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.

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

Em x

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!

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

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!!!!!

Ah - all is well then

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.

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