Noble Gardener

Plenty of posts already on numbers but I'd like to throw in my 2 cents on the 'economic' route -
I see the egg collecting number cut down to a number between 100-305 depending on drops
If you're after the meta there's a few time saving steps to consider:

Items you'll need:

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• 100 choc - Eating as part of Chocoholic achievement, unavoidable
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• 100 choc - Spring Rabbit for Spring Fling achievement
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• 50 choc - Spring Flowers for Shake Your Bunny-Maker achievement
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• 50 choc - Spring Robes for Desert Rose achievement
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• 5 choc - Noblegarden Egg for Noble Garden achievement
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What this means:
Step 1: Save 100 choc for eating, cross out any drops from the list above
Step 2: Start saving up for 205 more chocs (thats your max if NONE of the above drop, as they do cross them off and subtract the eggs). Once you've reached your target number of eggs, buy the leftover items and do the run around portion.

Tux/Elegant Dress for Blushing Bride isn't BoP and in the AH for around 1g, don't waste the 75 eggs and finding your own isn't part of the meta
Spring Circlet isn't part of achievement and the flowers have similar effect, add 50 choc later if you want it
Blossoming Branch is a quest reward, useful for Hard Boiled achievement
Add another 10 choc if you want a permanent Basket from quest.

Here's a great tip to make your collection experience as smooth as possible;

Do not spend your Noblegarden Chocolate until you have collected enough to buy/eat all of your achievements. Since there is a random chance that every Brightly Colored Egg will drop any of the items you need for the meta (minus the additional egg for the Noble Garden portion), you will run the risk of doubling up on items if you purchase anything while still hunting chocolates.

What I did was start with the base number of chocolates needing collected (354 for just the meta (assuming you pick up the Brightly Colored Egg you dropped in either Stormwind or Silvermoon)), and then subtracted the amount of chocolates needed whenever I found an item.

I.E. if a Spring Flowers drops for me, I now only need 304 chocolates instead of 354.

In the end it took me approx 220 eggs in 3 hours to get all the items for the meta (damn Spring Rabbit's Foot never dropped!), so be patient, and have fun!

#showtooltip Noblegarden Chocolate
/use Egg Basket
/use Brightly Colored Egg

Equip your egg basket, make this macro, and spam it as you go around looking for eggs. It will keep your speed buff up as much as possible, while keeping your bags clear by opening any eggs in your inventory, and showing how many chocolates you have in your bags. Definitely helped me out a lot.