These are the top 10 most frequently forgotten Easter groceries

Easter is the ultimate time for coziness, family, brunch, eggs and… supermarket stress. Because what happens every year? You always forget something. And no, not something small like “some extra eggs” – no, it’s always those things that can completely sabotage your brunch. Here’s the ultimate top 10 of the most frequently forgotten Easter groceries – including a little ode to Zaanse mayonnaise.

Have you stylishly set your Easter table, entirely according to the latest Easter trends, stuffed yourself sick on chocolate Easter eggs (hopefully not those nasi goreng Easter eggs from Jamin…), then you can get started cooking. S.O.S…. this is the moment you discover that you’ve forgotten something… The only consolation: you’re not the only one who forgot some Easter groceries.

Top 10 most frequently forgotten Easter groceries

1. Vanilla sugar: the ninja of the flavor enhancers

That one traitor quietly hiding behind the baking flour. Until you’re halfway through making the batter and think: “Wait, am I missing something?” Yes. Without vanilla sugar, your Easter stollen tastes like cardboard.

Tip: buy ten straight away; it never runs out – except when you need it.

2. Vegetable stock: essential for your fancy soup

You’ve come up with a beautiful Easter menu featuring an elegant vegetable soup. Too bad you forgot to buy vegetable stock, which means your soup now tastes more like… warm water with a pinch of pan.

Reminder: vegetable stock cubes are the foundation of 90% of Easter brunch soups. In an emergency, chicken stock is also allowed (at least at my house).

3. Baking paper: the most underrated kitchen item ever

But seriously, who doesn’t forget baking paper? It’s the kitchen accessory you never think about until you try to scrape your Easter quiche out of the oven without a base.

Pro tip: stick a note on your oven. “Got baking paper? Check. Only then crack the eggs.”

4. Puff pastry: indispensable for the brunch show-off

You were still debating whether to make that wonderful Quiche Flamande by top chef Joris Bijdendijk or instead – cheerfully! – that frikandel quiche from the Airfryer. Puff pastry always seems to be in the house. Spoiler: it isn’t. And frozen puff pastry never defrosts quickly enough.

Solution: put some in the freezer as standard around the end of March. Every year.

5. Whipped cream: of course, for dessert… and coffee!

Whether you want to pile it onto a pavlova or serve it as a generous dollop on your coffee: without whipped cream, Easter feels a little meager. And no, whipped soy yogurt is not an alternative; we’re too down-to-earth for that here.

Try whipping it yourself sometime. You’ll get biceps and admiration out of it.

6. Yellow cleaning cloths: your kitchen table’s emergency lifesavers

Not sexy, but essential. Yellow cleaning cloths are horrifying to some colleagues here in the newsroom, but also: the silent heroes of brunch. Because cracking eggs, spilling juice, a child with chocolate-covered hands… Everything ends up on your table.

Pro tip: put out three extras. Grandma will steal one (the one from my son, because she really cleans everything with it), one will end up under the table, and you’ll genuinely need the last one.

7. Batteries: because the Easter decorations do need to blink

Those blinking Easter bunnies on the table? Battery-powered. That bunny garland with LED lights? Batteries. That mini mixer for your egg salad? Yep: batteries. And what is therefore never in the house?

Always AAA and never AA, or the other way around. Universal Easter law.

8. Yellow onions: for the flavor, not the looks

You think: “Oh, I still have onions.” But then you grab the red ones, and suddenly they taste strange in your deviled eggs. Yellow onions are the secret flavor enhancers in 80% of your Easter dishes.

Bonus: they cry back just a little less fiercely than their red siblings.

9. Easter napkins: because the regular ones with Christmas bells really won’t do

You can set your table as nicely as you like – if you put down a pack of paper tissues as napkins, it’s like putting a flag on a mud barge. No way. Sorry.

Easter napkins = atmosphere = peace at the table = opening the wine earlier (we always look at everything positively).

10. Zaanse mayonnaise: the queen of Easter sandwiches

Look, everyone has mayonnaise at home, but Zaanse mayo is next level. Especially on an Easter sandwich with egg salad or ham. Forget this one? Then Easter is basically just an ordinary weekday lunch.

Worth reading: according to the experts, there’s still a mayo you really need to know. (and no, it’s not Kewpie..)

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Source: Albert Heijn