Easter Is Coming!!!

and you know what that means? Chocolate, and the traditonal feast of ham/turkey, potatoes, gravy, etc..

and for me it means EASTER SOUP! for any who don't know, that is soup with hard boiled eggs, cream, vinegar, horseradish, and garlic sausage.  (maybe I should put this is the weird foods topic lol) Easter soup comes but once a year so I'm gonna be eating alot of it lol. Oh, and I'll also be having sex-in-a-pan. It's a shortbread type crust with chocolate pudding, whipped cream and some sort of custard.

What are you're plans to keep the easter weekend from tugging at your waist line? and do you have any weird traditional foods that you eat?

Agh! Don't remind me! Reese's Pieces Peanut Butter Eggs! By the handful! Agghhhhh....

Well, if I do get chocolate, I will keep maybe one egg, and give the rest to my brother . As for the Easter food, I'm going to my aunt's for lunch, so I plan to have a small breakfast (oatmeal), indulge for lunch on ham, mashed potatoes, bread, gravy, and ONE dessert.  And then have a small dinner .  My family doesn't have any weird food actually.

i agree. those reese's peanut butter eggs are SO much better than the regular peanut butter cups. i haven't had one yet, but i plan on going to the store the day after easter to get the candy half off.

oh and those cadbury eggs. holy crap.

We don't celebrate Easter.  My family does, but they don't give the kids candy.  Just toys (jump ropes, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, frisbees, that sort).

Easter's just another Sunday for me.

I've never tried the reeses eggs.. hmm. My nana always gives us a brown bag full of weird jellies, chocolates, and those malt-ball things which are nasty lol.

Aw cellulitedelight, I love easter. I tell my mom not to get my anycandy (the little lunch bag is more than enough) But I love the flowers and decorations and stuff. And when i was younger i used to love having easter-egg hunts and decorating eggs. =)

Those chocolate regular sized eggs with fake yolk sugar goo freak me out. blech.

oh my GOD the reeses eggs are amazing.  I think it's a sin for anyone to be on a diet on Easter, hah.  I'm just gonna be good all week and just indulge on Easter Sunday (without going completely overboard).

I'm going to have a treat on Easter! (Marshmallow peeps.) One day of going over won't kill me, as long as I'm good afterwards.

Oh cadbury eggs are soooo good. My hubby is so supportive and won't let me break my healthy eating just for a holiday treat though lol *pout*

yummy! I love love the reese eggs. I definitely think they taste way better then the regular reeses which is weird because they have the same ingredients. haha, but we don't really celebrate Easter anymore since we moved away from our family and all. We used to go over to my grandparents and have a huge dinner and there would always be fun Easter activities and candy, of course.

Easter is for church, not for special food... but chocolate is to be enjoyed 365 days a year! Those special Easter hershey's kisses are really something this year and I'm not ashamed to admit I've been eating them for the last month. Just a few at a time, of course...

Special food on Easter seems to be a part of EVERYONE's plans whether you thump the bible or not.  For me, its about being with Family and Celebration.

We do a traditional Sunday Breakfast / brunch at my parents house.  Platters of eggs, linguica, fried potatoes, fruit platter, mimosas, and orange muffins.  I really love daffodils, and I just picked up three bunches to watch them open in my kitchen - SPRING!!  So for this meal, I will just try to keep it to one serving and maybe weigh it heavy on the fruit and scrambled eggs more than any of the other foods.  Now that my nephews are "too old for Easter Egg Hunts" we don't do all the chocolate and I've long ago let me Mom know it was okay if she didn't get me my traditional See's Candy Coconut or Bordeux egg!! 

No real plans yet but yesterday my sister and I attempted peep jousting which was defiantly more fun than eating peeps.

those are interesting foods! and "sex in a pan" how "easter"! lol well i don't eat meat, so i get a free pass out of the ham/turkey and bring along my own veggie chicken. our sides are usually all pretty normal... potatos, veggies, salads, pasta, etc. so the meal really isn't the craziest thing for me. as for treats i just have a decent portion and don't go overboard. a piece of cake, some cookies, whatever it is and that's that. if i tell myself i can have stuff like that once in a while it's not a big deal. at least easter is only one thing, it's not like christmas which seems to last an entire month!

We don't have any special 'Easter foods', only chocolate eggs and I usually only eat a bit every day, so they last a while. My diet should be safe :S

I eat healthy all year...I'm letting myself have a Cadbury cream egg for Easter.  It won't kill me...probably.

Haha.. My mom asked me if I wanted an Easter basket this year. (I'm turning 19 in a few days.. uh.. lol)  I declined, but I told her I'd be overjoyed if I just got a Cadbury Creme Egg.  =)

We don't really celebrate Easter in my house hold, since we're not religious nor crazed about celebrating things just for the sake of it (usually because of money i guess).
But i am terrified of Easter this year.
It's really bugging me!
I can ignore chocolate when it's just on the shelves, but during the month before and after Easter chocolate seems to be shoved in my face by the media all day.
I go into town and there's Easter egg displays everywhere.
I watch TV and there's ads boasting about their Easter egg deals.
I look at the junk mail and all shops are showing even more pictures of chocolate!

... I love chocolate.
But it's high calories AND unhealthy and i hate how eating it gives me a sore throat.
And having the temptation around all the time is aggravating.

... At least i don't have any money to be wasted on chocolate though lol.
:] still don't like Easter!
Lol i'm like the Easter Grinch.

We celebrate Easter and have two small children. Since I started dieting in January im now able to go to the store so I was able to pick out their Easter goodies. (big improvement for me!)

While chocolate may be bad in huge quantities its definitely something my children look forward to, so to cut that wild desire to open millions of pieces at once and bite each one (and leave it laying around LOL!!) I have decided to purchase them a lot of non edible goodies that should keep them well occupied throughout the day.

Their birthdays are just around the corner so decided to not buy the video game each I was going to do.. was going to do get them each a game and forget the chocolate except a single beautifully wrapped chocolate bunny & white chocolate cross.

Don't get me wrong I got them delicious candy. I went and got them every thing that caught MY eye, that I would love to have and know they would love it too. I also know that I will NOT join in on the chocolate devouring contest either.

We already got the ham and I plan on making sweet potatos , mashed potatos from scratch, gravy and some kind of vegetable. I wont make the family suffer thru the Holiday. I however will be eating a little of the ham and making a baked sweet potato for myself and filling up on veggies. I refuse to let a Holiday interfere with healthy eating. For myself and im not a bible thumper the holiday isnt about feasting, none of them are really, that our family celebrates. its usually a lot deeper than that.

And as for desiring chocolates, I don't. I did however give into the lusts of the chocolate covered peanut butter filled egg though. Odd as this may sound my child was very sick with a stomach virus and actually passed out and we gave him a small slice of one (was either that or a little sugar on a spoon, we didn't think of the sugar and just hurried up and got the egg out of  the freezer now this egg was not HUGE but was a little bigger than the x tra large size egg.. slicing the egg off a little at a time over nearly 3 days there was bout a half inch left. well I gobbled that sucker down n been okay and that's all I had in the way of chocolate since January 3rd.

cadbury creme eggs = my Easter becomes complete.

did you know that just ONE creme egg has 170 calories? that news almost makes it not worth it.

For Easter, I requested that no one buy bunnies or any chocolate unless I specifically request them. That way, I only get a bit of chocolate and it's the kind I want. I mean, I love Mini Eggs but I LOVE Purdy's chocolate eggs more! That way, I get quality chocolate instead of a large quantity of ok chocolate :) And I made sure my bf only buys one package of eggs!