The dreaded prepare a holiday meal rears it's ugly head again. I'm studiously trying to figure a way out. Maybe I can reschedule my spinal cauterization to land on that weekend....hmmmm...Oh yeah, I can't. How would I eat all that chocolate if I'm laid up. Ummm...ok, buy a ham, potato salad ingredients.....woe is me. ;D
Ham, potato & salad, sounds goods to me Bloodless, still leaves plenty room for chocolate!
Dolly :P
Bring on the chocolate. One thing I can still enjoy. I do try to eat the dark type which is a little healthier.
Anna
When is easter?
Chocolate? Where? Is it a party?
Yum! Chocolate!!!! I can't wait for Easter!
Hi :)
I'm going to find out what Easter is like in the US this year because I'll be travelling to see my son and daughter in law and to meet my granson for the first time. I think Americans tend to make more of holidays that we do over here, so it should be interesting.
Take care - Scottie :)
Scottie,
Easter is the best with kids! Easter Egg hunts, eating candy until you are sick, Easter dinner with family. You will have a great time with your family!-hootyhu
Newjoy - Easter is April 24th. It's really late this year.
I don't wait until Easter to eat chocolate . . . isn't it one of the four food groups you're suppose to have daily?!? ;D
Most years I enjoy getting ready for Easter and the special day - not this year, I have to work that day and we will be super, super busy serving everyone else their Easter dinner. We are looking at a possible 800-900 people. Ugh! I don't EVEN know what my own family will have that day . . . Mom will just want a bed to sleep in!
Bucky
Not that I need it since I've been gaining weight, but I love chocolate covered marshmallow eggs, Easter bunnies, Santa Clauses, etc. Is 56 too old to get an Easter basket????
jpd
Easter! The busiest time of the year at the candy store where i work! :o They make their own eggs- coconut cream, peanut butter, buttercream and fruit and nut. I will spend many hours decorating eggs ( putting the border on each and writing "Easter 2011"), taking orders, help getting orders ready to mail. Then the week before ---really busy days of selling, adding names to eggs and bunnies. Maybe it's a good thing that I will be busy--it will keep me from eating all those yummy things---I'm not supposed to eat anything with artificial color or CHOCOLATE!!!!! :'(
On another note: Dr. has had to change two medicines, Nexium (the little purple pill--artificial color) to protonix; and pravastatin ( green from artificial color) tp mega dose fish oil(forget the exact name). He calls me a "giant hive". Trying to figure out what is causing all the swelling----
So, all of you who can still eat chocolate---enjoy, enjoy!!! And look for the real thing- not the chocolate flavored junk.
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Quote from: quilt4fun on March 21, 2011, 12:16:02 PM
So, all of you who can still eat chocolate---enjoy, enjoy!!! And look for the real thing- not the chocolate flavored junk.
quilt4fun - happy candy decorating! Sounds like a fun job. I had always thought cake decorating would be a fun job, but, squeezing those icing bags would make my hands hurt. I agree . . nothing worse than biting into something that tastes like paraffin. Ewwww
Any chance you could get us some samples?!? ;D
Bucky
When I was a little girl I always HAD to have a white chocolate bunny. Never could eat more than 3 bites though because it was so darn sweet... haha
We started a tradition when my son was about 3. We were to go on out to a Easter egg hunt at the park one year but it was very stormy that day, so my husband and I decided that we would invite all of our friends and their kids and do the hunt in the house. We did that for a few years and evolved with my son's friends included, hid eggs in the house (behind picture frames, in bowls, etc). Well one year my husband decided to boil the eggs (I'm sure you all know where this is going)... he also was in charge of hiding them and stuck one under a couch cushion... well needless to say, we had to have that couch professionally cleaned, tell the kids the eggs were "just for show" that year and my husband has never boiled an egg since that day :D
Next month, a few weeks before Easter, I'll pick up some easter m&ms and chocolate eggs for my co-workers. They'll be gone in 2 days too! :D
Come on April 24th! My mouth is watering.....
I am still waiting for chocolate. :) HOP :)
I was going to do the whole family Easter thing.. I'm not even sure yet. Don't want to deal with my ignorant family BUT would like to see my Grandparents since they are close to the 90's and won't live forever :( I guess maybe just ignore the rest of the bunch lol
And chocolate for Easter.. yep it's one of my daily food groups too :) I just got the new caramel milky way I think it was and OMG it's good haha Thankfully I am able to keep my weight down so I chow down as long as I can and heck Sjogrens already took my teeth soooo eat up is how I see it ;D
I have been so bad that my Christmas tree is still standing lol My daughter tells me I should just put eggs on it and leave it there rofl and I just might do that... Just decorate my tree for the holiday. It's only a little 2 foot white one, I couldn't do a whole tree last year.
I know Christmas tree still standing how pathetic is that? ::)
No it's an Easter tree! Works for me! ;D
We have a lady around the corner that always every Easter decorates her outside tree with the plastic eggs.
I honestly do not care what people say about my "tree" lol My flare started in April of last year and did not stop until last month. I took pred. but as soon as I stopped it, the flare came right back. If no one likes my tree they can take it down for me.
BUT I am going to get eggs for my tree now, see how they like that ;D I'd say what I'll decorate it with next but this case of brain fog is not letting me think what holiday is next :-\
I need pink tinsel and colored eggs haha And when I do I'll take a pic. so everyone can see my year round tree rofl
You can use that colored plastic "grass" they use for Easter baskets as your tinsel. ;D I have a niece that did that one year . . just left her tree up and decorated it for each event that came up during the year.
Let's see . . next thing after Easter is Mother's Day. You could hang pictures of you all over the tree! ;) Or, if you have Mother's Day cards from years gone by, you could hang them from the tree.
Bucky
My son came today and says "Mom, why is your tree still up" ;D How he's missed it all this time is beyond me haha Good thing he doesn't pay attention too much.
Ohhh yes Easter grass would work great lol Well, we do not have anything from when the kids were little due to a house fire :( I'm sure the local Dollar Store will have something to put on this tree for mothers day.
The Telephone Pioneers have an Easter egg hunt for the blind. (The eggs beep). The blind get keep count of the number of eggs that they find. The baskets are filled with candy for them to take home. (The Pioneers also have baskets of sugar free candy).
Oh dbab - I LOVE white chocolate Easter bunnies! They were always my favorite and my mom always made sure to get me one every year. And you are totally right - they were sooooo RICH! If I got a solid one I could only take about three bites and then it got wrapped up in plastic wrap until the next day. Of course, I always ate the candy eye first... :D
lol jordozmom, I wonder if they sell little bitty white chocolate easter bunnies just for kicks so I can have a bite given thats probably all I could eat just for nostalgic reasons of course :D ... actually I've graduated to the dark stuff now oh yes! that pure sugar candy eye was heaven! :)