If Christmas starts in November when can you eat a hot cross bun?

I sound a misery , but dont mean it like that but I really do not like the fact that the supermarkets start with easter eggs and hot cross buns about 2 days after boxing day. I think that they children especially lose out with this attitude. we always had our hot cross buns on good friday and my great grandmother kept bantams and pulletts so we had a proper easter egg hunt round the garden before finding that last one which would be a chocolate egg. The shops are obviously just interested in profit. When my son was young I made a policy of never buying anything that was surrounding the tills as You know they put them there for pester power when you are trying to load your goods up. My son soon learned that nothing would be bought by fussing or moaning about stuff. I really dislike them pushing dates too early and feel that children lose that pleasure of anticipation, which can give a lot of fun and encourage effort in making cards. as for easter egg hunts, when there were a group of children of similar age it was a free for all, but if you had two or three children with very wide difference in ages we used to put the effort into making each child their own "string" We bought exactly the same amouont of sweets and bits and pieces, then my husband and I would spend time wrqpping them up in clingfilm and then winding the cotton round them and then putting them in things such as toy box or wellington boot etc and then as they came in it was follow the strings. Forty years later my son still mentions following the strings etc and then another thing we used to do was to hardboil an egg each, then colour them in after ading cochineal or yellow die or onion skins to the water. Then crayon your name on and then we would go to a nat trust place where there were little hilliocks so thaqt everyone could bat the egg down with a wooden spool. the winner got a little cadbury egg. These were all family celebrations and more about the tradition and doing the things again as before.So I shall continue to ignore any easter eggs etc until the rite time and hope to continue sticking to the right seasons and appropriate times

I really want one now! But seriously I haven't considered buying any yet.

I might just pinch your idea of following the string, madeleine45, thank you! I usually do treasure hunts for my lot on high days and holidays, but there’s a limit to how many clues there are in the world!

It's food! If the shops are selling it, you can eat it. I eat creme eggs long before Easter. As the saying goes "fill yer boots" and enjoy.

madeleine45 Are you also bothered by the fact that Christmas starts around August?

The best time to eat Hot Cross Buns is perhaps before the sell by date, don't you think?

I am having a toasted hot cross bun with lashings of butter for breakfast instead of a healthy bowl of cereal and fruit, yum!

Yes, I’ve had a spiced apple one, also with lashings of butter. And this thread has inspired me to get the bread maker out to make some lemon iced buns later. They won’t be as good as Botham’s of Whitby, but they’ll do.

Good Friday

Whenever you want to. You can have my share, too, as they're disgusting!
Things have changed so much since we were children. Sky gives us much more to watch on Christmas day, instead of sitting through constant repeats. Easter eggs are sold as soon as Christmas is over, as are creme eggs, Valentine's hogs January, then Easter and everything is just available.
So you go and eat whatever you want, as long as you can get hold of it!