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In-laws buy them

What a bleedin' waste of money, they bought them for E last year, when she was only 7 months old... Our Easter family gathering is just plain daft...

we all just swap the same easter eggs... then it takes 4 months to eat them

I might declare a no chocolate easter this year.

4 months to eat them - it only takes me a couple of days!

My M&D refuse to buy them so DS and his cousins get new clothes or shoes if they need them, soo much better.

MIL buys loads usually chocolate that none of us like and it is just a waste, but she will not take telling.

Aren't they such a waste of time and money... Now, if it was at least decent chocolate, I wouldn't mind the odd one or two - but when I see the low-quality muck that's on sale, with masses of packaging, it really makes me sad!

Back in the good old days , when the eggs you bought were almost all white, we used to dye them with onion skin. It's so difficult nowadays to get white eggs, though - maybe I should try and find some so I could revive an old custom! There's lots of other natural dyes one could use for easter eggs, too. And I have a few times bought goose eggs, blown them out and decorated them for Easter. Much nicer than most of the stuff you can buy.

Oo, I remember that. Painting eggs is a good, fun Easter tradition. Do kiddies still do it?

we dont do it anymore, but for a few years some friends and us would all decorate a boiled egg.. then we would climb the hill, and lob the eggs.. the egg that got the furthest, (stil having shell white and yellow parts...) would be the winner.. the owner getting the chocolate egg. which we would all consume with coffee...(after clearing up the egg bits..)
there as a prize for best dressed egg too, and kids throwing done separate. bit of fun. waste of eggs.. but a bit of fun...

ina wrote:Back in the good old days , when the eggs you bought were almost all white, we used to dye them with onion skin. It's so difficult nowadays to get white eggs, though - maybe I should try and find some so I could revive an old custom! There's lots of other natural dyes one could use for easter eggs, too. And I have a few times bought goose eggs, blown them out and decorated them for Easter. Much nicer than most of the stuff you can buy.

I thought at first you were talking about dyeing white CHOCOLATE eggs with onion skins!

My family - until a few years ago - used to do the 'easter egg race' - decorate eggs then roll them down a hill, the idea being that you then ate them... but it frequently turned into a boiled egg fight (like a snowball fight... but with boiled eggs) I remember someone would be declared the winner... but I can't remember why, and we never had prizes.
I guess it was just a silly game (there are 20+ of us, so you can't really have an organised game )

My brother did tea died eggs once... but not in the same way that you are talking about.
He boiled them, then rolled them on a hard surface to gently crack the shell, the boiled them up again in strong tea... the resulting boiled egg was quite pretty. I think he got the idea from a chinese cookery book.

But how do you get the mother in law and the sister in law NOT to buy them, without sounding ungreatful?

Millymollymandy wrote: I thought at first you were talking about dyeing white CHOCOLATE eggs with onion skins!

Rarely... You have to boil them with the onion skins - and that would give you hot chocolate with onion flavour!

Helsbells wrote:But how do you get the mother in law and the sister in law NOT to buy them, without sounding ungreatful?

i redirected my mum towards some eggish toys that would be better value and more appreciated by my son...

another idea is to say, 'shall we just do eggs for the kids/ give one egg per family' or something...

Dont have any children to divert the egg hatred!!

I hate another seasonal celebration going down the commercial pan.
As it happens we are a religious family so attend Church on Easter Sunday (well every sunday actually). We usually have lamb for dinner.
We do a little egg hunt on the saturday with one small bag of mini choc eggs or make some with a mould we have, have an easter hat making competition, dress up the hard boiled egg contest and egg and spoon races.
These are things that used to happen at the local pub in our village as i was growing up and we like to continue them.

Got a dirty look at dobbies yesterday for loudly mentioning how terrible it is that places like that had helped rob us of our seasonal festivals LOL.

We also dyed eggs with onion skins LOL

Helsbells wrote:But how do you get the mother in law and the sister in law NOT to buy them, without sounding ungreatful?

You could make up some excuse about your child ending up with loads of chocolate, so you'd rather not have them....

Or maybe ask that they "donate" the money they would have spent, so your little one can buy a toy of their own choosing?

Our nanna used to buy my sister and I a bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs to share and a £5 each....

Of course, this was when you could only get Mini Eggs at Easter and they were quite expensive....

I quite like the almost year round creme eggs though...

My mum and dad have always bought me and nik something useful for easter, usually a book, or some pencils or something - they always reasoned that the useful presents would last longer than chocolate (and they were always right!)