A Healthy Easter

Do you have plans this Easter season for baskets filled with candy? Why not opt for a healthier Easter? There are several ways one can help create a healthier Easter. One way is to replace the traditional candy filled baskets and plastic eggs with healthier products. Below is a list of products to choose from.

• Dried fruit (i.e. box of raisins)
• Fresh fruit (i.e apple, orange)
• Fruit roll-up
  
• Cereal (i.e. cheerios)
• Graduates fruit puffs
  
• Nuts
• Trail mix
• Pretzels
• Granola
• Mini-popcorn packs
• rice cakes

Another idea to try this holiday season is to use baby carrots in your holiday meal so the kids can eat like the bunnies.

There are also several fun Easter recipes to try as well. Below is one of my favorite Easter recipes for kids.

Easter Bunny Salad

Ingredients: lettuce, halved pears, fat-free cream cheese, raisins, apple slices or almonds and miniature marshmallow, frozen yogurt or cottage cheese

Begin by washing and drying romaine lettuce. Place lettuce on plate with a halved pear (the bunny) on top. Apply a dab of fat-free cream cheese to the raisins and place them on the pear as the facial features (eyes and nose). Use apple slices or almonds to create ears. Last put a little cream-cheese on a miniature marshmallow and place on the opposite of the pear as a tail. Frozen yogurt or cottage cheese can be used in place of the marshmallow.

Once the bunny has been made if desired a baby carrot can be placed beside the bunny.

Source

Paige, Michelle. "10 Non-Candy Fillers." Blogger. 23 March 2012. Web 24 March 2012. <http://michellepaige.blogspot.com/>

Shields, Sandra. "Bunny Pear Salad and Bunny Biscuits." The Epoch Times. 21 March 2008. Web 23 March 2012. <http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/8-3-21/67852.html>