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My ILs were the first I knew that actually hid real eggs. We just hide plastic eggs and set the dyed ones out on the table with brunch and then set back in the fridge.

If they were only out 2 hours and indoors (aka not baking in the outside sun) I think that would be safe for me to eat.

@kiddosc: Same growing up! My parents hid the eggs at night and then we found them the next morning. We also ate them and I'm horrified by that now! And no, we never got sick but still. We also just color eggs separately and eat them and hide the plastic eggs. But DH has to sneak outside early in the morning to hide the eggs or the squirrels will take them!

We never hid the dyed ones, we just dyed them and then put them in the fridge and made egg salad. This is the first year my kids have dyed eggs, at a farm we went to for an egg hunt, and they’re currently in the fridge. They’re raw, but I need to make sure that when I cook them the boys don’t see because while they’ve currently forgotten they exist if they see them they’ll kick up a fuss about eating their art.

I hid dyed eggs this year for the first time. I did it in the morning while DS was getting dressed so they were outside all of 30 min and then I used them to make deviled eggs. I'm not sure this will work in the future when DS is older though... As for food safety, I've always found eggs a bit weird. Like they're mostly safe raw and get used in all sorts of things that sit out at room temp.

@erinbaderin: @kiddosc: you only keep farm fresh eggs out on the counter if they haven't been rinsed. if they've been dyed, you definitely want to refrigerate them! once the bloom has been washed off, they will go bad a lot faster!

@kiddosc: Ha! My mom would kill me if she knew that I threw them away now.

One year, they hid the eggs like normal and we found all but one! We kept telling them that they should make a map of where they hide them. I was in HS at the time so it wasn't like we still believed a bunny hid them. It took some time but we finally found that egg in a armoire when it POPPED from going rancid. Oh the smell!