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Your guide to a Happy, Healthy Easter !

March 13, 2013 · 16 Comments

Your guide to a Happy, Healthy Easter !

It’s an early Easter this year! Are you ready?

This pagan celebration has somehow turned into a giant choc-fest! I also think it’s outrageous that hot cross buns appear on Boxing Day. More and more catalogues and shops are suggesting that Easter is another Christmas and we should buy gifts as well as copious amounts of chemical-laden chocolate.

It is easy for kids to get caught up the hype.

Okay, so how do you participate in Easter, enjoy some chocolate and not be a party-pooper? Well, it’s easy. Just go back to basics – home made is best or choose your products wisely. Create family traditions based around making treats together on the Easter weekend. We ask family and friends to not buy chocolate for our kids. We all just get one small portion of chocolate each. That is really enough and we all enjoy it!

Here are some more healthy ideas and alternatives for you.

 

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Easter Bunny cupcakes from Including Cake! 

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Cute egg bunny from Lifetime Moms

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It’s all in the packaging! Cuteness from A Lemon Squeezy Home.

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Upcycled packaging from The Old Fashioned Mama.

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A cute way to serve Easter snacks from Ebony at Neat 2 Eat.

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Bunny Crackers from Kaboose.

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An easter-egg fitness treasure hunt from Super Healthy Kids!

 

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 Fruit Bunny Snack from The Prime Pursuit.

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 Lemon Poppy Seed Bunnies from Elana’s Pantry. Gluten-free, grain-free, vegan.

 

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Pink Bunny Egg from Parents.com. I suggest using beetroot to colour!

 

More:

Browse some of my other Easter posts for some recipes and ideas:

Healthier Hot Cross Buns

Healthy Homemade Easter Eggs

Homemade Chocolate Bars

 

Whatever you do for Easter, enjoy the lovely time spent with family and friends!

 

Do you have any healthy Easter ideas or recipes? Please link up with me!

 

Filed In: FAMILY, FOOD / Tagged: biscuits, chocolate, easter, fun food, healthy biscuits, hot cross buns, kids

Fun and Healthy Edible Christmas Trees!

December 5, 2012 · 21 Comments

Fun and Healthy Edible Christmas Trees!

Christmas food can be fun and healthy.

There are some very clever people out there who come up with these mostly easy but incredibly cute ideas. I have put them all together in a blog post so you can see them too.

 

Healthy Fruit Xmas Tree

Easy Fruit Christmas Tree

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Vegetable Christmas Tree

Crudites Christmas Tree

Healthy Fruit Xmas Tree

Fruit Christmas Tree 

Pizza Xmas Tree

Vege Pizza Tree

Kiwi Christmas Tree

Xmas Tree Savouries

Pita bread Christmas Trees

Vege Xmas Tree

Vegetable Christmas Tree

Snap Xmas Tree

Snap Pea Christmas Tree

 

Read next:

A healthy whole food Christmas
Fun, healthy Christmas food for kids

 

Filed In: FOOD / Tagged: allergy Christmas, allergy friendly, Christmas, christmas food, Christmas tree, Christmas tree food, dairy-free, egg-free, fruit, fruit christmas tree, fruit xmas tree, fun food, gluten-free, vegetable christmas tree, vegetables, wheat free

some very pinteresting things…

April 11, 2012 · 7 Comments

Wordless Wednesday:  the coolest stuff on my Pinterest boards right now!

Grapesicles. Genius from The Accidental Hostess.

Apple Sandwich. Genius from The Peaceful Mom.

Sandwich on a stick. Genius from Super Healthy Kids.

Capsicum dip holders. No washing up genius from The Daily Dish.

Frozen pikelet mix. Genius from 20 going on 80.

“Prepare pikelet mix, then pour all the batter into a large ziplock bag and freeze!  Once you are ready to use it, take it out of the freezer to thaw, snip off a corner of the bag, and you have quick & mess free piklet mix! ”

I ♥ Pinterest. Do you?

Filed In: FOOD / Tagged: apples, fun food, grapes, pancakes, pikelets, Pinterest, sandwiches, snacks

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