Luckily, influencers have stepped up to the challenge when it comes to decorating eggs, dyeing everything from marshmallows to potatoes.
One popular TikTok video by lifestyle and home design site The Spruce offers five alternatives to decorating real eggs, including painting pasta shells, painting potatoes, and painting clay.
In other videos that bemoan the current price of eggs, influencers decorate egg-shaped brownies, they dye marshmallows, and they paint rocks.
"Small potatoes or baby potatoes have sort of an egg shape and and they're a lot of fun to look at!
"Eggs are way too expensive right now," explain the food bloggers behind Crowded Kitchen in a video for peanut butter eggs with more than one million likes on Instagram.
This year, despite the price of eggs, U.S. President Donald Trump has said he plans to still use real eggs.
"Skip those expensive eggs and dye potatoes for Easter instead!" »