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Happy Easter! Did someone in your family or circle of friends receive a cute basket from the Easter Bunny today? If so, I bet all of you eco-savvy Casa readers aren't going to just throw that basket out.
Holiday Eating Tip: Healthier Easter Basket
Easter is coming up this Sunday, and for those of you who celebrate and are also trying to watch your weight, this means another holiday of dealing with candy and sweets. The positive side is that there is no rule that says you have to fill your Easter basket with pounds of chocolate eggs and jellybeans. Fill your basket with these healthier alternatives instead:
- Carrots (since the Easter Bunny likes to share)
- Fresh fruit
- Homemade cookies that are filled with healthy ingredients like oats, raisins, dried cranberries, walnuts, and dark chocolate chips
- Bars of Dark chocolate
- Colored eggs made with homemade dyes
- Dark chocolate covered peanuts, pretzels, or raisins
- Mini banana bread muffins
- Fitness DVDs
- A scented candle
- Animal shaped hand soaps (my girls love these)
A Healthier Easter Basket
You've seen the Easter Candy breakdown. You cast your vote for your favorite Easter Candy over on YumSugar...and now you're thinking maybe I should make a healthy Easter Basket. Well you know I am going to second that option.
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Yum Market Finds: Easter Basket Chocolates
Easter is this weekend and if you are running around like a chicken with your head cut off looking for goodies to fill your loved one's Easter baskets why not consider a few cool chocolate treats? Aren't these the cutest chocolate bunnies you've ever seen? I found and saved them in the Yum Market on TeamSugar.
Roundup: Contemporary Baskets
I wont be hunting for any Easter eggs this year, but if I were, I'd want to put them in a contemporary basket. The requisite pastel pink and purple baskets are festive and traditional, but it's 2009. It's about time for some modern Easter decor — at least for grownups.
Forget Candy! Fill Easter Eggs With Healthy Treats
Traditional Easter egg hunts and baskets are a dentist's nightmare. I suggest asking the Easter bunny to pack your baskets with reading material, bath toys or tiny stuffed animals, but you may have to get more creative if you hope to fill your hunt eggs with something other than chocolate. For a list of healthier items you might consider putting in your eggs, read more
A Week In Review: FitSugar roundup
Before you eat too many pieces of Easter candy, you might want to read this breakdown of your favorite Easter candy.
Here are some suggestions on how to create a Healthier Easter basket.
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Plan Ahead For the Perfect Easter Basket
Easter goodie aisles at drug, craft and grocery stores are overflowing with robin eggs and chocolate delights, but if you'd rather bring home a bunch of bunnies then give your children a basketful of candy — the secret to Easter basket success is planning ahead and purchasing one medium sized treat (like a stuffed animal or book that's under $20) and a few healthy snacks or mini toys.
- Aim for an inexpensive basket like this festive Colored Easter Basket ($6) from Pottery Barn Kids. If you don't want to make a mess skip the fake grass and use tissue paper.
- Forgo candy and instead fill your basket with toys that will last longer than a single sweet moment.
Lil Find: Personalized Easter Basket
Pharmacies may have started loading up on Cadbury eggs a few weeks ago, but today is the first day of Lent, which means Easter is truly on the horizon. Take advantage of the 46 days left until the Easter Bunny hops into town by stocking up on unique baskets and egg-y goodies.
These Williams-Sonoma Personalized Easter Baskets ($24 each) are ideal for the pre-planner because they are only available via Internet and catalog.
Lil Links: A Crafty Alternative to Easter Baskets
- Decopaged Easter pails — Alpha Mom
- Cat Cora prepares for more cooks in the kitchen — Celebrity Baby Blog
- Katie Holmes has a lil dancing queen — Celebrity Baby Scoop
- Cute ways to announce baby news — Cafe Mom
- Trade in your Easter basket — Health
- Burger King ad inappropriate for kids? — Parent Dish
- FamFun bamboo kids' dining kit — Inhabitots
- Fred Flare candle packs — Cookie
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