Here's what's on the table for Easter in N.B.

Oliver Pearson · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 20, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Easter play is often celebrated with treats and household meals. Some shoppers look for signature items to enactment connected the array that support a mates section grocers busy.

"It's decidedly our busiest week of the year, adjacent implicit Christmas," said Daniel Cullen, the owner of Dan's Country Market successful Saint John.

One marquee Easter point for Cullen is pre-peeled vegetables. He and his staff have been processing them each week.

"People emotion it," helium said. "Like, there's a monolithic request for it for america and it brings a batch of radical in."

Cullen estimates the concern volition peel up to 2,700 kilograms of vegetables this week, including squash, turnip, carrots, regular potatoes and saccharine potatoes.

Another crushed radical sojourn starring up to the vacation is the candy. Cullen said they besides merchantability tons of meat, but nary turkeys. He volition merchantability astir 100 hams.

Some customers besides look for barbecue foods — steak, chickenhearted and sausages.

Dan's Country Market isn't the lone spot serving ham for the holiday. Tony's Prime Cuts successful Maugerville, conscionable extracurricular of Fredericton, sells a signature ham.

Their hams are double-smoked with hardwood. They commencement taking pre-orders for ham weeks successful beforehand of Easter.

Zachary Cogswell manages the business. His grandfather, William Mulder, opened the butcher store successful 1973 and Cogswell has been astir the store his full life.

"We sold astir apt the astir we've ever sold this twelvemonth by far," Cogswell said. "It blew each of our minds. Honestly, conscionable the enactment from everybody and it's been a large time."

The concern sold astir 170 hams.

Customers besides look for their eggs and smoked bacon. Cogswell estimates they've astir apt sold implicit 225 kilograms of bacon this week.

Easter is the busiest clip of the twelvemonth for Cogswell's store — next to Christmas.

"This twelvemonth I deliberation Easter was adjacent amended than Christmas," helium said. "Normally Christmas week is the truly busy, engaged time," helium said.

Cogswell said each of their products are from wrong Canada and a batch come from the Maritimes.

They've been seeing a dependable summation successful customers since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cullen said helium gets much customers astatine his store each Easter but helium thinks determination has been an adjacent bigger summation owed to the existent commercialized warfare betwixt Canada and the U.S. 

"I deliberation that uptick is bigger this twelvemonth due to the fact that of the tariff stuff," helium said. "But we turn each year, but we've grown much this twelvemonth and I would person to accidental that it would beryllium connected to the support-local movement."

He said that 95 per cent of his store's products are Canadian. He said customers person begun asking wherever their products come from.