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well i be pigging out on easter eggs what can we do with the packaging sorry deb slimming world will have to wait lol

I wonder if you could use them for bath bomb moulds?

Kind thoughts and abstainer from chocolate
Deb

glenniedragon wrote: Kind thoughts and abstainer from chocolate
Deb

You'll just have to have marzipan eggs instead!

Ergh, what kind of easter egg packaging are we talking about? The ones I've eaten so far came just wrapped in paper... (Lidl's finest.)

Usually - egg covered in foil, inside clear plastic egg shaped mould, inside cardboard box!

So......... roll up foil and use for a cat toy, use the plastic mould as a planter (might have to put it inside something to stop it rolling around) and put the cardboard on the compost or use to light the fire!

Use as a mould to make a seed easter egg for the birds.

Use as a mould to make another easter egg?? Not sure whether it would take the melted chocolate temperature.

Ummm... I HATE easter eggs... like the chocolate but have always thought it to be a silly idea and you get so much more for your money if you buy a big bar of really good chocolate, and so much less waste.

In fact... I think I'll order some of the expensive montezuma chocolate... I bet it still works out cheaper than the big expensive choccie eggs. Mmmmm......

We always make ours every year. You can use the easter egg box plastic egg if it is good thick plastic but mostly,they just buckle with the heat.
I buy 1kg of chocolate and we make 4 big,4 medium,4 small and nest them one inside the other as then you only need to wrap the outer one.
When they were little ,I used to put a little suprise in the inner most egg.
A little chick usually.

Millymollymandy wrote:Usually - egg covered in foil, inside clear plastic egg shaped mould, inside cardboard box!

Wouldn't buy anything with that much packaging anyway... If I'm about to pig out on chocolate eggs, I want to pay for chocolate, not packaging!

I have in the past made pastry eggs, too - just cut out of quite thick pastry, and after baking decorated with different colours of icing (all natural colours, of course! Red fruit tea, and - gosh, my mind's gone blank - what's that stuff called that makes curry yellow?, cocoa, of course, and coffee...)

turmeric??

now... that's a fun idea.. making your own. Haven't got any moulds though so I guess will have to pass this year as I certainly can't afford to buy the moulds this year... something for the future!

The moulds would pay for themselves very quickly if you normally buy packaged eggs.
We started with 2 moulds small and medium,then DD got a medium one in a childs chocolate crafts set and We received a beautiful big egg for all of us from my sister which had a very thick packet and so now we have 4 moulds. I buy Asda chocolate at 48p for 200g so the whole kilogram this year will have cost us £2.40
I think the moulds are about £2 but it depends on the size and they last years if you dont melt them in the dishwasher.

ahhh - you've just given me an idea albert!! Granny etc... all will want to buy and send easter eggs... SOOOOOOOOO I'm going to suggest they don't, and instead send some choccie and a mould.... Much more fun... and educational too... yay!!