MSE Forum poll: Are you spending more, less or the same on Easter this year?

MSE_James

The Easter weekend is coming up, and this week we'd like to know how your spending on chocolates, decorations and other seasonal items compares to last year. 

As we've previously heard on the Forum, it's not just youngsters who enjoy seasonal confectionery at this time of year.  

Or maybe rather than spending on prepared foods, you'll be making your own Easter biscuits or other tasty treats?

[We asked this question just before Easter 2025 too - take a look at the results to see how they compare to this year]

twopenny

I used to make a Simnel cake, buy hot cross buns and Easter eggs.

There would always be tiny chocolate, sugar coated eggs in bowls where friends congregrated and of course cream eggs. I used to decorate the house.

The cheap chocolate eggs are now made differently with oil and don't taste the same. Without the chocolates inside the eggs it's not so much fun.

Haven't seen any cream eggs or the little sugar coated ones this year. Hot cross buns are available all year. Eggs stacked high in the shops from Christmas. It's lost its seasonality. It's just another commercial push

horsewithnoname

Same as every year, spend nothing extra on Easter.

jaybeetoo

Not spending anything on Easter. Like Christmas, it’s become far too commercialised.

subjecttocontract

I spend absolutely nothing on Easter.

I provide my household with a very generous monthly allowance for food and consumables. Any spending for Easter will come from that money. I have no idea what, if anything, is extra but I suspect spending would include Easter eggs......which I'm told are somewhat lower in price this year.

We aren't church go ers, don't take holidays over Easter because it's far to busy and full of kids and just hope for some fine weather.

Dobbibill

Less as I'm buying zero chocolates. I agree with others with the oil in it, the taste has become horrid and I'm totally not interested in buying it.

CapricornLass

If I’m spending more, it’s because prices have gone up, otherwise exactly what I bought last year -three Lint bunnies and two allergen free eggs. I make a batch of hot cross buns on Good Friday as they taste totally different to commercial ones, and a chocolate cake for Easter Sunday. Our luxury is blue eggs, which are boiled for Easter Sunday breakfast.

I do have decorations -they are German decorated eggs and china hens and they are carefully put away and stored when not out. If I have time, I make an Easter garden, but that is made using bits and pieces from the garden

twopenny

Guyllian (sp) and Lindt eggs don't have the oil but they are expensive for a small egg.

middlewife

I buy fair trade chocolate bars for my adult kids, Oxfam sell one, Shelter used to but not any more. Chocolate is chocolate, and id rather the profits went to charity, plus the chocolate tastes better. One packet of hot cross buns for hubby, I'm wheat intolerant and maybe some daffs, but that's it. If I ever get grandkids, then I'd probably knock up some Easter nest cakes, but I've never bought into the whole cheap chocolate egg concept. Cream eggs are just too sickly imvho......

subjecttocontract

Apparently my PA managed to spend around £20 securing a batch of chocolate eggs for the children from Asda (@ £2.32 each). I know nothing about eggs but sounds like a good buy to me. She learnt today that the price is now £3.97 each.......I do love it when a plan comes together.

surreysaver

Didn't realise Easter was a time for spending money!