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GUEST POST: 10 BEST ECO AND ETHICAL EASTER EGGS

Written by Ismay, founder of Boy Wonder, a sustainable kids fashion brand made in Britain featuring hand-drawn prints on organic cotton.

It’s great see a much better selection of eco and ethical Easter eggs available this year in our shops and not just specialist health food shops too but even in Aldi!

So, if you want to do you bit this Easter to cut back on plastic waste, avoid palm oil or go plant based then check out our picks of the best and where to find them. Some of these are far too nice for the kids!

Ismay Summary, founder of sustainable kids fashion brand, Boy Wonder.

Moo Free Tony’s Chocolonely Booja Booja Divine Montezumas Green & Blacks Nomo Happi Buttermilk Hip

Moo Free

£3.50

Free from: Dairy, soya, palm oil & gluten

Recycled plastic packaging

Rainforest Alliance certified chocolate in egg, bunny and hamster shapes. 110g

Variety of flavours including honeycomb, chocolate orange and white chocolate. Some eggs have a bag of choccy buttons or a chocolate bar inside.

Available at: Most supermarkets except Sainsburys and online

Tony’s Chocolonely

£4.49

Free from: Slavery, palm oil, plastic

Tony’s have a selection of bundles and pouches as well as this cute egg box and also a milk lemon meringue bar. The egg box has all their different flavours in from popping candy to milk pretzel toffee. 150g

They do vegan options but not in the Easter section.

Made in Britain

Available at: Sainsburys, Co-op and Tesco

Booja Booja

£9.99

Free from: palm oil, dairy & plastic

Organic chocolate truffles made in Norfolk in hand-painted papier mache Easter eggs made in Kashmir, India

Flavours including hazelnut crunch, fine de champagne and come in two sizes 34g and 138g

Available at: Asda, health food shops and selected stockists

Divine

£5.00

Free from: Palm oil, dairy free options

FSC certified packaging & B Corp certified company which is co-owned by cocoa farmers

Fairtrade chocolate, organic egg in three flavours: Raspberry, dark and milk. 90g

They also do mini eggs.

Available at: Co-op, Tescos and other stockists and online.

Montezumas

£6.00

Free from: palm oil and also dairy free options

Recyclable, compostable or biodegradable packaging and ethically sourced cocoa.

Chick shaped eggs in organic chocolate with milk alternative (like no udder) and chocolate buttons. 100g. They also do milk, dark and white chocolate eggs, hens and chicks.

They support the Children on The Edge charity 

Available at: Own stores around the UK, various stockists including Tescos, John Lewis and online.

Green & Blacks

£6.59

Free from: palm oil and also dairy free options

Organic and fair-trade

Dark chocolate suitable for vegans or milk chocolate eggs in 2 sizes with 2 chocolate bars inside. 135g

Available at: Most supermarkets and online

Nomo

£6.00

Free from: Palm oil, dairy, gluten, eggs and nuts

Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa

Various flavours including caramel, fruit crunch and caramel sea salt and come with a chocolate bar. 207g

They also do a little monsters egg and a cookie dough bunny

Available at: Tesco, Holland & Barrett, Waitrose, Asda and on Amazon

Happi

£11.99

Free from: Slavery, plastic, dairy, soya, palm oil and gluten

Ethically sourced

Made with oat milk and has 35% less sugar than other leading Milk Chocolate brands. 170g

Flavours: plain milk, orange, salted caramel and white raspberry

Happi donate 1 per cent of its annual sales revenue to good causes and mental health charities.

Available at: Selfridges, online and coming soon: Ocado, WHSmith and Holland & Barrett

Buttermilk

£6.00

Free from: Dairy, palm oil, plastic and gluten

Four flavours; zingy orange crisp, salted caramel, honeycomb blast and plain. Comes with buttons or a soldier 175g

Zero waste – 100% recyclable packaging

Made in Britain

Available at: Tesco, Sainsburys, Holland & Barrett, Waitrose, Asda, Ocado, Amazon, Hannon Fine Foods and online.

Hip

£8.00

Free from: Dairy, palm oil, slavery and plastic 

Thick salted caramel flavour chocolate egg with oat milk 150g

Available at: Holland & Barrett, Selfridges, selected stockists and online

To read more blog posts by Ismay, click here and to visit the amazing Boy Wonder shop, just tap here.