Most popular Easter treats

Bins of Easter candy for sale at Adams Fairacre Farms in the Town of Poughkeepsie on April 5, 2019. Easter Treats Adams Fairacre Farms

It’s Easter weekend, along with the end of Passover – and families are preparing to celebrate with egg hunts and family dinners!

Instacart compiled data of the most popular Easter treats and dinner items – and the results might surprise you!

Let’s start with the sweet stuff: Easter candy! What does the Easter bunny put in those baskets?

Here are the Top 10 Easter Candies from 2024:

#1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
#2 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
#3 Cadbury Chocolate Mini Eggs
#4 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
#5 Cadbury Creme Egg
#6 Sour Patch Kids
#7 Lindt Milk Chocolate Bunny
#8 Starburst Jelly Beans
#9 Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Candy Eggs
#10 Kinder Chocolate Candy Egg with toy inside

Candy is not the only thing in Easter baskets, however! That bunny usually likes to put in a variety of items to help welcome spring, such as:

#1 Confetti
#2 Bubbles
#3 Chalk
#4 Stuffed animals/plush toys
#5 Food coloring
#6 Kids art sets/general toys
#7 Modeling dough
#8 Toy cars

When it comes to Easter/Passover dinner options, here are the items that saw the biggest increase in orders:

Honey baked ham
Hot cross buns
Deviled eggs
Scalloped potatoes
Leg of lamb
Gefilte fish
Matzo ball soup
Charoset

Instacart noted that although leg of lamb sales jump dramatically this time of year, the number of people who say they dislike it is pretty high, too!

So there you go – if you’re still hunting for ideas to fill those baskets on behalf of the Easter bunny, hope we provided you a few ideas!

Happy Easter, and Happy Passover!