With Easter just a hop away, families are feeling the pinch of rising prices on everything from holiday hams to budget-busting chocolate bunnies.In the governments most recent inflation report, candy prices, including chocolate, were up nearly 12% compared to last year thanks to cocoa shortages and price hikes."Chocolate prices are very high right now, and it's one of those things thats just out of our control," said Kelly Schneider, third-gener…