It's Good Friday, and many of us will have kicked our long Easter weekend off with large quantities of hot cross buns, which are traditionally eaten today.
But have you started tucking into your Easter eggs yet?
It turns out that some of us have gotten into the habit of eating our stash of chocolate goodies way before we're supposed to, especially with supermarkets selling the tempting treats weeks - if not months - in advance of the Easter weekend.
And if you caved to the desire to scoff a Cadbury's Creme Egg last month, then we've got bad news for you, as you've broken one of the unspoken rules of the Easter holiday.
When should we eat our Easter eggs?
Traditionally, Easter eggs are given as gifts on Easter Sunday among those who follow Christian traditions around the holiday, as the egg is supposed to symbolise the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
According to Hames Chocolates, many people choose to abstain from dairy products and eggs during Lent - which is a period of 40 days of fasting observed by Christians - and so Easter is the first time after Lent that they can freely tuck into things such as chocolate.
Lent ends on Maundy Thursday, which is the day before Good Friday, so some Christians will scoff down their Easter eggs between Thursday and Sunday to reward themselves for their 40-day fast.
However, as Easter eggs were traditionally given out on Easter Sunday, the idea was to eat them on the same day - which means no unwrapping that foil until Sunday.
In reality, though, Easter eggs are not a Christian tradition, as we recently explained that the history of giving and receiving eggs actually started as a Pagan tradition in which they would hand out real eggs as a symbol of new life.
Chocolate Easter eggs first appeared in Europe in the 19th century, with France and Germany taking the lead. In the UK it was J.S Fry & Sons who produced the first chocolate egg in 1873.
Cadbury then started producing the modern Easter Egg we're used to today two years later, in 1875.
All this basically means that you can tuck into your eggs whenever you feel like it - Easter Sunday or not.
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