Did you hunt for real or fake eggs?

[Jalapeñomel]

Or both?


DH only hunted for fake eggs...and his Easter basket was empty when he got it so he could put the plastic eggs into it.

[Deleted]

Fake with trinkets, candy, or coins in them. Sometimes they would have a slip of paper in them for a larger 'prize.' We rarely had eggs of any kind in our baskets, just other candy and sometimes toys/cds/etc. depending on age.

[gretchenindisguise]

Real.

We only did fake at my grandparents. One year, my parents told my cousin there was an egg hidden with a $50 bill in it. They lied. He looked for over an hour.

[karinothing]

Real, I didn't even know people hunted for fake eggs until a few years ago.

[cereal K]

i don't really remember hunting for eggs as a kid. i'll have to ask my mom about that.

i do remember getting a basket filled with candy and toys, though.

[Deleted]

Real.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Both

[venice2007]

Real

[SpartanGirl]

We never hunted for eggs growing up. My kids hunt for fake eggs filled with jelly beans.

[trafficgirl]

Fake. I didn't realize people hunted for real eggs. I don't know why - it's got to be way cheaper.

[Sloane]

Chocolate eggs, with an empty Easter basket and then my bigger "gifts" from the Easter bunny were on the table.

[elleblue]

Growing up we always hunted for a mixture of both. 

[mrsjuleshs]

Always fake. My brother and I always rehid them for each other after the initial hunt and good thing they were fake because my mom would always stumble upon one we missed a few months later.

[gretchenindisguise]

Apr 20, 2014 20:58:42 GMT -5 tators said:

Both! The plastic had candy or money the real had numbers. At the end each number had a prize, except one prize was to do the dishes.

This is genius. 

[tigress]

Fake.

[ilovelamp]

Fake ones filled with candy and other stuff.

Do you eat the real eggs??

[adhdfashion]

Fake eggs filled with candy and money. Empty basket

[jayded]

Both

[Muddled]

Real. Why would you dye eggs if they weren't to be hidden?

And, yes, we ate them after. Pink and blue and green deviled eggs for everyone.

[eb777888]

Fake. Always only fake. David doesn't even eat hard boiled egggs so there wouldn't be much fun for him in that.

[agnes]

When I was a kid we did fake and real. The fake ones had candy in them.

Today, for the niece and nephews, we did fake and chocolate eggs. The fake ones had nothing in them.

[Mrs.Rad888]

Apr 20, 2014 21:54:44 GMT -5 mrsjuleshs said:

Always fake. My brother and I always rehid them for each other after the initial hunt and good thing they were fake because my mom would always stumble upon one we missed a few months later.

When I was a kid, we'd hunt for the real ones that we'd dyed. When I had kids of my own, I'd hide plastic ones because I always hated dying them.
When DS was in grade school, K or 1st grade, his class had an Easter party. I didn't realize that they'd colored real eggs until a few weeks later, when the smell coming from his backpack became hard to ignore.

[sewpinkgal]

There was a mix out for the kids today at H's aunt's house, though heavily skewed to the fake eggs.

Btw, this was the first year J participated in the egg hunt and he LOVED it!

[bonquiqui]

Fake. I cant stand real eggs lol

[textbookcase]

We had a full basket that we emptied while looking at all the stuff, and we hunted real eggs. Inside the house. Because we live in hell.

[Jalapeñomel]

Apr 20, 2014 22:26:40 GMT -5 ilovelamp said:

Fake ones filled with candy and other stuff.

Do you eat the real eggs??

Of course!

[flutterfly]

We hunt for the plastic eggs with chocolates inside.  We hunted for the plastic ones when I was a kid too.

 Something about hiding an actual hard-boiled egg makes me nervous.  If I ever hid real eggs I know I'd forget and there would be an egg rotting somewhere.

[wildfloweragain]

Real! The family who does our hunt does hundreds (or likely a few thousand) real, cooked, colored eggs!

[Jalapeñomel]

Apr 21, 2014 6:40:29 GMT -5 @jehc said:

We always hunted for fake eggs. I didn't realize people actually hunted for real eggs. How many eggs does one person eat? Seems like a waste of good eggs, of a really short egg hunt. Plus, hunting for candy is WAY more fun than a hard boiled egg.

We dyed real blown-out eggs but we didn't hunt for those ones because they're delicate. They were for decoration only, and we still have the eggs that I dyed when I was a little girl, almost 30 years ago.

Egg salad, deviled eggs, hard boiled eggs, so many options!

We had a golden egg that had candy in it.

I loved hunting for the eggs I dyed...I'd mark them so I knew when I got one of my eggs.

[tacokick]

We always hunted fake with candy or coins in them.