Well, dear and beloved, are you already preparing for the holiday of the Resurrection of Christ? Are you looking for recipes for Easter cakes, are you dreaming of cottage cheese Easter cakes? Would you like to try something new and unusual this year? If there are no resources for global reforms, make some personal discoveries in the field of coloring Easter eggs. Surely, from year to year you resort to the same method of decorating paints - so maybe the time has come for interesting achievements and interesting experiments? Let's figure out how you can paint eggs for Easter, and once you figure it out, you will automatically find the right solution for yourself. Just - mind you! – new!

How to dye eggs for Easter:

Coloring eggs with natural dyes

In the modern world, few people think about why it is worth giving preference to natural dyes, if it is much easier to go to the store, buy, pay, mix and get the result. The Pepsi generation, we grew up on the idea of ​​“I want everything at once” and are not ready to spend even a little time if there is an opportunity to get almost the same thing, but without wasting precious minutes. However, if you approach the issue of coloring eggs for Easter from the other side, you can find a lot of advantages in using natural dyes.

First and foremost, this is your health: it is clear that when decorating Easter eggs, the shells are colored, and if food dyes get into the food, then in minimal quantities, but they do get in! Agree, if possible, it is worth making a choice in favor of health, neglecting issues of minor savings.

Secondly, natural dyes are always a miracle, magic, a mystery. Doing something with your own hands, watching with bated breath, waiting for the result and wondering what it will be like - isn’t this something miraculous? Don’t forget that by calling your children for help, you will automatically increase the magic factor: of course, sometimes little hands create unnecessary problems and troubles in the kitchen, but the happy laughter of children is worth it!

Third, natural dyes are sometimes cheaper than store-bought synthetic ones - what could be, for example, cheaper than onion peels or a couple of spoons of black tea, free birch leaves or unnecessary walnut shells?

Let's instill in children a taste for another concept: natural, natural, healthy - it's fashionable, beautiful and modern. Leading by example is the best science, so this Easter we're painting eggs with something you can find in any kitchen!

Onion peel

Perhaps onion peels are the most popular, simple and affordable means for coloring Easter eggs. Thanks to this simple old-fashioned “life hack” you can get a completely diverse range of color shades - from light red to deep brown.

To work, you will need wax, a candle and a special tool - a pissator, which can be replaced with any small diameter metal tube. Draw a design on the egg with a simple pencil, then, having filled the scribbler with wax, heat it over a candle and trace the ornament of your choice with the melted mass. After this, lower the egg into a glass with dye, wait the required time, then remove the wax with a napkin, if necessary, holding the pysanka over a candle - in those places that were closed, the shell will remain with its natural color, but the rest of the surface of the egg will be colored.

Using the same technology you can make multi-colored Easter eggs. To do this, after the first layer of wax design, dip the egg in the lightest paint (for example, yellow), wait the required amount of time, remove it, carefully dry the egg, apply the design again, dip it in the next most saturated color (for example, red). Repeat the operation as many times as you want to get flowers. Remove wax only after the last coat of paint.

Don't immediately look at very complex patterns. This, of course, is incredibly beautiful and inspiring, but it’s better to start with primitive drawings, and then, once you get the hang of it, move on to more complex patterns.

Decorative polyethylene films and thermal stickers

The modern industry, with the motto “quick and easy,” offers a lot of “high-speed” options for decorating Easter eggs. At Easter fairs, supermarket displays and market stalls you can find a wide selection of stickers and thermal films for decoration.

With the first ones, everything is simple to the point of primitivism: I took it off the base, stuck it on an egg, put it on a plate and began to admire the result. It would not be amiss to mention that it is still better to color the egg first - small stickers on a white background look bare and dull.

With thermal films, you will have to make several extra movements: wrap the egg in the proposed “bag”, put it in boiling water, take it out after a minute - under the influence of temperature, the special polyethylene contracts, tightly wrapping the egg. Ready. A huge disadvantage of this method of preparing Easter eggs is the difficulty in cleaning: the film is very durable, and in order to remove the contents of the shell, you have to use a knife or scissors.

Options, of course, are of dubious attractiveness and sincerity, however, they cannot be ignored, because they exist and, probably, still have the right to life - for working mothers and women who almost never have days off, this is a good way out of the situation. However, if you have at least 10 extra minutes, it is better to give preference to some “warmer” and “live” option.

Decoupage and other handmade ways to decorate Easter eggs

With minimal skills and a love of crafts, Easter eggs can be decorated in a completely unusual way, using, for example, the decoupage technique. To do this, the surface of hard-boiled eggs must be degreased, then, if desired, painted with any suitable paints (for example, gouache). After this, dilute PVA glue and water in a 1:1 ratio, cut out suitable motifs from napkins, remove the top layer and glue it onto the egg. After drying, the eggs can be additionally coated with a layer of glue. If you are making decorative jewelry, you should work with an empty shell and coat the finished egg with acrylic varnish.

For those who know how to hold a hook in their hands, we can advise you to tie the eggs with openwork “cases” - it turns out incredibly tender and cute.

However, even if you take various beads, pieces of lace, sequins, colored ribbons, beautiful ropes and decorate Easter eggs with all this goodness, it will be very vintage, festive, soulful and stylish.

Christ is Risen, dears! Have a beautiful Easter, bright colors and good mood!

Coloring eggs for Easter is a very interesting activity. It especially captivates children. We offer several interesting and simple ways to color Easter eggs. Use them and your imagination, and you will get amazing results. But to ensure the coloring goes flawlessly, read some simple tips for preparing eggs for coloring, which are described in the article 9 natural dyes for Easter eggs.

1. Marble Easter eggs
We offer two ways to make “marble” Easter eggs.

1. Add half a tablespoon of vegetable oil to water with diluted food coloring and mix with a fork.
Boil the eggs, cool them and lower them into the dye one by one, trying to catch as many oil stains on the surface of the egg as possible. After removing the eggs from the paint, gently pat them dry with a paper towel.

2. Finely chop the onion peel and roll the wet raw egg into it. Place the egg, covered with husks, on gauze or a wide bandage (the bandage should be folded in 3 layers to make it denser), wrap the egg in gauze and tie tightly with thread. Place the resulting egg sacks in cold water, add salt (1 tablespoon) and brilliant greens (for 10 eggs - 1 bottle (10 ml), more is possible, no need to mix). Boil the eggs for 15-20 minutes, rinse under cold water, remove the bags. Rub dried eggs with vegetable oil to make them shine.

2. Easter eggs with pastel stains
You will need food coloring of different colors, vinegar, plastic spoons. Rub hard-boiled eggs with 9% vinegar. Dilute dyes in different containers. You need to hold the egg above the tray so as not to stain everything around it. Turning the egg around its axis, carefully pour the dye thinly with a plastic spoon to create stripes. You need to start with a lighter color. Between different colors, be sure to let the egg dry completely (you can use a hairdryer). To avoid getting your hands dirty, use latex gloves.

3. Paint it colorful using rubber bands, leaves, and tape
When coloring eggs, you can leave some kind of design on them. And if you use your imagination, you will get unusually beautiful eggs for Easter.

If you wrap the eggs with different rubber bands before coloring, you will get cute stripes. And if you change the position of the rubber bands, and alternately paint the egg with dyes of different colors, you will get nice multi-colored stripes. You need to paint from light to dark tone.

2. Leaves, flowers, hearts, etc.

If you want some kind of design to remain unpainted on the egg: a leaf, a flower, a heart, a cross, etc., take a leaf from a house or wild plant, a flower cut out of paper, etc. Place it on the egg and put a nylon stocking or gauze on top. Secure the ends of the resulting bag with an elastic band. Color the egg with a synthetic or any natural dye (onion skins, turmeric, beet juice). Rinse under water and remove the bag. Rub the dried egg with sunflower oil.

By applying stripes or patterns (various silhouettes) to the eggs before dyeing them using masking tape or electrical tape, you can get very cute Easter eggs.

4. Paint “speckled” using rice or other grains

To add specks to the eggs, you can use rice or other grains. Wet eggs are rolled in cereal, carefully wrapped in gauze, the ends of which are tied with thread. The rice should fit very tightly to the egg being painted. The eggs are then colored with onion skins. The bag is removed, and the places where the rice was adjacent to the surface remain unpainted, creating an interesting mottling.

5. We paint eggs with silk rags or faded cotton threads

1. You can dye eggs using silk scraps (old colored men's ties are perfect). Wrap the eggs in multi-colored shreds, wrap them with rags on top, and tie them tightly. Boil the eggs for 20 minutes. Remove the shreds. To give the eggs a beautiful shine, grease them with vegetable oil after they have dried.

2. To dye eggs, you can use ordinary cotton threads of different colors.

Wrap the eggs in cotton threads of various colors (as your imagination dictates), and cook the eggs for 20 minutes over low heat. Remove, cool, and remove the thread cocoon. Unexpected color options are obtained.

6. Paint eggs motley using drops of wax

The egg is painted one color. When it cools and dries, hot wax is dripped onto it (for example, using a burning candle). Now the egg is dipped into another dye; it should not be hot so that the wax does not melt. This procedure can be repeated again to obtain multi-colored spots. You need to start painting with light colors. For example, yellow - orange - red. If the first drops of wax are applied to an unpainted egg, the spots will be white. The wax is then carefully scraped off. To remove wax residues, the egg needs to be heated a little (for example, brought to the side of a candle flame) and wiped with a napkin.

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Before Easter, many brightly colored chemical dyes for eggs appear in stores, but the most beautiful, healthy and delicious eggs will be those dyed with natural dyes that our great-grandmothers used.

So, as natural dyes for eggs you can use any vegetables, fruits, berries and even herbs and seasonings that have a pigment that can color Easter eggs. The most popular are: red cabbage, beets, coffee, spinach and nettle leaves, turmeric, paprika, green tea, hibiscus, blueberries and cranberries.

Two ways to color eggs:

1. To prepare the dye, vegetables and fruits need to be cut and boiled for 30 minutes (the proportions are arbitrary and depend on which shade you like best). Then boil the eggs in the coloring solution for 10 minutes (the water should completely cover the eggs). For a richer color, you can increase the cooking time.

2. Or you can paint already boiled eggs, then you first need to make a coloring solution (boil vegetables, fruits or spices with water), and then paint the egg in it (the minimum coloring time is 30 minutes, but you can leave it all night).

Important! To make the color of the coloring solution bright, you must add vinegar (1 tsp) to it.

Natural dyes, of course, will not give such a bright shade as chemical ones, but they are absolutely harmless and can paint eggs in very delicate and beautiful colors.

Your family, especially children, will definitely love these colorful eggs!

Examples of egg coloring:

Yellow

The yellow color of eggs is obtained by boiling them in water with the addition of onion skins, carrots, cumin seeds or chamomile. A more intense color is obtained on yellow or brown eggs. Chamomile gives a delicate yellow color; it can be boiled and strained, or eggs can be boiled together with chamomile sachets.

Example 1: Boil turmeric for 15 minutes in water and add eggs.

Example 2: To prepare the dye, you need to take 1 liter of water, 3 tablespoons of turmeric powder and grated red carrots, cook for 30 minutes.

Orange color

The orange color of the eggs is orange zest juice, tangerine zest juice, paprika, red carrot juice.

Example 1: 4 tbsp. spoons of paprika should be boiled for 30 minutes in a saucepan with a glass of water, then place the eggs in the broth.

Example 2: Soak boiled hot eggs in carrot juice with the addition of turmeric (the proportions are arbitrary and depend on which shade you like best).

Brown color

Brown - Birch leaves, black tea, coffee. You need to brew strong coffee or tea and boil eggs in it.

Brick Red - Onion skin.

Example: For 3 liters of water you need to take 4 cups of onion peels and boil for an hour. The more onion peel, the richer the dye. Add the eggs and boil them in the resulting dye. To get a purple hue, you need to do the same with the skin of the red onion.

Red color

Red, reddish-crimson - a decoction of cherry bark or cherry branches.

Example: Boil the bark or twigs of the cherry, let it brew for several hours (it’s better to boil and leave overnight), be sure to strain, and cook the eggs in this infusion. If the decoction of cherry bark is made weak, the eggs will turn pink.

Pink color

Pink and lilac shades - blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries (frozen or in the form of juice), raspberries, currants, cherries, red cabbage. You can soak already boiled eggs in the juice.

Green color

Green - dried spinach, parsley, nettle, ivy, blueberry decoction

Example 1: For 2-3 eggs and 0.5 liters of water, take about a handful of dried coltsfoot, bracken or carrot tops.

Example 2: Boil eggs with dried nettle infusion (3 tablespoons of crushed nettle per liter of water).

Example 3: To get a green tint to the eggs, you can use fresh blueberry juice. For 1 liter of blueberry decoction - 2-3 full teaspoons of turmeric powder. To avoid the appearance of lumps, first grind the turmeric with water in a small bowl and only then place it in the blueberry decoction.

Example 4: Chop the spinach finely (frozen is also good) and add water to cover. Cook for 30 minutes and let cool.

Blue color

Blue, purple - blueberries, lingonberries or blueberries (the berries must be frozen from last year), elderberries, red cabbage leaves - the broth will be red, but the eggs will turn blue.

Example: For 0.5 liters of water, take 2 small heads of red cabbage and 6 tablespoons of 9% vinegar. Finely chop the cabbage, add hot water, add vinegar. Immerse boiled eggs in this mixture and leave for a couple of hours. To obtain a deeper color, it is better to leave the eggs overnight.

A handy cheat sheet with step-by-step instructions for coloring eggs:

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Easter is coming! Every housewife tries to make beautiful and unusual eggs on this bright holiday. The name of the resulting eggs depends on which coloring method you use.

For example, eggs painted the same color are called dyes.

Eggs with multi-colored dots due to droplets of wax are called specks.

Drapanka- This is a one-color egg with a scratched pattern.

Eggs with a design or pattern made using a special tool - pisachka - these are Easter eggs. They are the most beautiful, they can even be called works of art.

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Preparing eggs for painting

There are many ways to dye eggs for Easter. However, regardless of the option chosen, the eggs must be properly prepared. Here are some tips:

• An hour before coloring, remove the eggs from the refrigerator so that they reach room temperature. In this case, they will not burst during cooking. The same result can be achieved by piercing the eggs with a thin sharp needle;
• In order for the paint to lay more evenly, the eggs must be thoroughly washed. Uniform coloring can also be ensured by wiping the eggs with soapy water or alcohol;
• Painted eggs will acquire a shiny appearance if, after painting, they are wiped dry and rubbed with vegetable oil.

Now you can proceed directly to painting the eggs. Here are a few ways, among which everyone can find the most suitable one for themselves.

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The first method: a classic of the genre - onion skins

This is the way of our grandmothers, which still remains relevant. As a result, you can get red eggs, as well as yellow, brown or their shades - it all depends on the intensity of the paint and the duration of the dyeing procedure.

1. Pour water into a saucepan and add onion skins. The red-brown color can be obtained by taking the peels of eight onions and adding two glasses of water. Based on this, you can calculate the amount of water and husk for a specific case.

1. The water with the husks should be brought to a boil and boiled for 30-40 minutes. Let the broth sit.
2. The broth should be filtered, freed from the husks, and the prepared eggs should be boiled in it for 7-10 minutes.

1. In order for the eggs to clean well, they need to be sharply cooled with ice water.
2. To obtain a more intense color, the eggs can be returned to the broth and left until they acquire the desired shade.

Second method: gifts of nature - natural dyes

Many natural ingredients have a coloring effect. This allows you to obtain a variety of colors and shades.

Beetroot juice gives pink color

Pale yellow - lemon, orange, carrots,

Yellow - birch leaves, calendula flowers.

Green color can be achieved with spinach or nettles,

Blue - through red cabbage.

Coffee gives eggs their beige color.

Violet - violet flowers.

Some dyes are not very intense, for example, violet or spinach, so eggs can be left in such decoctions overnight.

1. Pour water into a saucepan, add vinegar (1 tbsp) and natural dye. Bring to a boil. Let the broth brew (30 minutes).
2. Boil the prepared eggs in the broth depending on the desired shade - from 15 to 30 minutes. If necessary, you can leave the eggs in the broth longer - for a day.

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Third method: decoupage technique

To decorate an Easter egg with a picture, you don't have to buy stickers. You can decorate it using decoupage technique.

1. Boil the eggs hard.
2. Prepare gelatin glue. To do this, pour gelatin with water in the proportions indicated on the specific gelatin package and soak. Strain it through a strainer and remove excess liquid. Heat the gelatin and wait until the granules dissolve.

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1. Choose napkins with beautiful colored designs. White eggs look better as a background, although it all depends on the color of the napkin.
2. Separate the top layer of the napkin and cut out the piece you like.
3. Attach the picture to the shell. Apply gelatin glue over the design from the center to the edges.

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The fourth method: the food industry introduces food dyes

One of the most trivial and simplest ways is to color eggs using dyes from Easter kits. There is always a recipe listed there, but you can do it like this:

1. Boil the eggs hard.
2. Dilute the dyes with water - each color in a separate bowl. There should be enough water to cover the eggs. Add vinegar (1 tbsp).
3. Keep the eggs in bowls until they begin to color.

The result is bright, colorful eggs that are pleasing to the eye.

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Fifth method: colorful palette - colored threads

To get intricate patterns, paint the eggs with multi-colored floss threads:

1. Wrap the eggs with thread.
2. Boil it hard.

Sixth method: marble effect

Marble eggs look unusually festive. To make them you will need food paint for eggs of different colors, vegetable oil and artistic flair.

1. Color the eggs in light, bright colors, such as yellow, red, orange.
2. Let the eggs dry.
3. Dilute dark colors (blue, brown, purple) with water. Add vegetable oil (1 tsp) to each cup. Gently stir (do not shake) the oil until there are a lot of oil “money”, no larger than a pea.
4. Dip each egg in the dark color and remove immediately. A beautiful marble pattern is obtained if you do this no more than once.

Seventh method: eggs in silks

Exquisite eggs with designs are obtained by painting them with fabrics. You can use a silk tie or a Pavloposad woolen scarf.

1. A raw egg should be wrapped in a cloth with a pattern. The front side should fit tightly to the shell.
2. To prevent the fabric from slipping, sew the egg along the contour. Wrap it over the colored cotton fabric, securing it at the blunt end.
3. Pour water into the pan, add vinegar (3 tbsp). Place the eggs wrapped in cloth into the pan and cook for 10-12 minutes after boiling.
4. Pour cold water over the prepared eggs. When they are completely cool, carefully remove the cloth. A thin pattern will remain on the egg, just like on fabric.

Eighth method: imagination in patterns using scrap materials

Using the methods for coloring eggs described above (for example, using onion skins), you can.

• chaotic specks can be achieved if wet eggs are rolled in rice or millet before coloring;
• a leaf-shaped design can be obtained by attaching a parsley leaf to the egg before painting and securing it with gauze or stocking;
• To ensure that straight lines cross the egg, you can glue masking tape to its shell or pull a money elastic band over it;
• symbols or letters XB can be glued to the egg before painting using adhesive tape or masking tape. After painting, they should be carefully removed;
• You can get “checkered” eggs if you boil them wrapped in fishnet stockings or a net from fruits or vegetables.
• a lace pattern will decorate an egg if, before painting, an interesting lace motif cut from a napkin is attached to it;
• paint the egg with wax crayons. The drawing will appear at the end of the staining procedure.

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Ninth method: for the joy of children - a craft egg

Easter is a family holiday, so you can decorate eggs with your children. You can make funny chickens out of testicles.

1. Boil hard-boiled eggs.
2. Paint it bright yellow.
3. Prepare gelatin glue.
4. We decorate the eggs with details cut out of colored paper. These are wings, beak, comb, paws, tail and others (bows, eyelashes, curls) - it all depends on your imagination. The eyes can be glued on or simply drawn on.

Tenth method: saving time - thermal stickers

An indispensable way for busy people is to decorate eggs for Easter with iron-on stickers. They are sold on the eve of the holiday in supermarkets, newsstands and other stores.

1. Boil the eggs hard.
2. Place a sticker on the egg. To avoid problems with size (the sticker may be too small for the egg), it is better to choose medium-sized eggs.
3. Dip the egg into boiling water so that the sticker “hugs” it and takes the desired shape.

These are some interesting and unique recipes for how to paint eggs for Easter. Traditionally, housewives do this in Clean Thursday. Easter is a wonderful Christian holiday that gives wings and hope for a better life. Take some time to dye eggs and let a bright spring holiday into your life!

Today, the choice of colors for Easter eggs is very large. But I absolutely don’t want to eat such an egg, much less give it to children. Whatever manufacturers write on their paint labels, I’m still horrified by the blue egg under the shell And I don't want to have a colorful stomach.That’s why I always paint eggs only with natural ecological dyes. It may not be so bright, but it’s safe, we already swallow chemicals every day, on such a day you can do without it. If you are of the same opinion, then these egg coloring tips are for you.

I came across ideas for ecological coloring of eggs on a Dutch blog several years ago, chose the products we had and decided to try it. Since then, in addition to painting eggs in onion skins, I have also painted them in other colors.

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Here is a list of natural dyes that will help you beautifully color eggs (mix the suggested products with a small amount of water, enough for cooking, and cook the eggs in a mixture of water, dye and a couple of tablespoons of vinegar for 20 minutes; eggs for coloring are best taken with white shells , it absorbs the dye more actively) and To prevent eggs from cracking during cooking, it is better to use eggs at room temperature, rather than ones you just took out of the refrigerator.

Red and pink color:

A strong infusion of Cardane will help give the Krashanka a red color. Place the eggs in this infusion and bring to a boil, then cook for 10 minutes. Hibiscus infusion is not the only way to color red. And if you think that preparing fresh beetroot is easier than a strong infusion of hibiscus, you can dip already boiled eggs in beetroot juice for half an hour. If you reduce the time the dyes stay in the juice, you can achieve not only a red, but also a pink tint.

Orange color:

To give the dye an orange color, you will need carrot juice. As in the case of beets, already boiled eggs need to be placed in fresh carrot juice for half an hour. The intensity of the color will depend on the time of “soaking” the dye.

Yellow:

The yellow color will be given to the dye by the root of turmeric (saffron). You will need to dissolve a few tablespoons of turmeric powder in hot water and, after bringing the solution to a boil, leave it on low heat for a few minutes. Let the broth cool and then boil the eggs in it. You can also prepare a coloring solution from the zest of lemons, oranges and young birch leaves.

Dark and light green color:

To color white shells green, you can use the juice of parsley, dill, basil and green pepper. But spinach will help you get an intense shade. These herbs need to be simmered over low heat for half an hour, then boil the eggs in the broth. The same can be done using a solution of brilliant green. The brilliant green solution must be diluted with water to the desired saturation and then the already boiled eggs should be placed in it.

Brown and golden color:

To get a brownish tint, you can boil eggs in strong coffee or onion peels; the more peels you collect, the more intense the color.

Blue color:

In order to get a blue tint, you need to finely chop the red cabbage, add boiled water and add 2 tablespoons of vinegar. When the solution acquires the shade you want, soak the already boiled eggs in it.

Purple:

The purple color of your paint will be given by a mixture of red and blue solutions. Eggs boiled with red onion skins can also acquire a purple hue.

Other natural food colors for eggs

The color of the eggs will change depending on how long you hold the eggs. A minimum of 30 minutes for a light color and a maximum of overnight for a deep color.

• Cinnamon, natural and instant coffee, black tea, walnut shells, brewed hibiscus/hibiscus for different shades of brown.
• Saffron, carrot tops and tops, citrus peels, celery and dill seeds, dandelion, tansy and goldenrod flowers, young poplar shoots, rhubarb leaves for different shades of yellow.
• Paprika and chili powder for shades of orange
• Flowers of violets and pansies, blackberries, blackcurrants and blueberries for purple
• Fresh herbs, lightly sautéed spinach for green
• Strawberry and cranberry for a soft warm pink.Soak eggs in beetroot solution atroom temperature, 30 minutes.

Now you can prepare beautiful colored eggs from natural ingredients.

Wish you luck!