Easter

kimzy132124
kimzy132124 Posts: 75 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Easter is approaching and I'm planning how to get around it diet wise. The kids leave eggs for the bunny but that means I have to eat them... What do I do ?
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  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    edited March 2015
    ...Or you could give them to someone else, take them to some sort of food drive, incorporate them into some deserts for your kids (just don't keep them in their original packaging, put the chocolate unwrapped in bowls or melt it down or something), or you could always just throw them away.
  • Josalinn
    Josalinn Posts: 1,066 Member
    do you mean chocolate or hard boiled?

    If hard boiled you could try getting one of those kits that blows the egg out of the shell and make a quiche. If chocolate, well, you could put fewer out. You could also make egg shaped cookies and have fun decorating them and then instead of eating them all at once, freeze them and bring them to work. You could bring the chocolate to work too.

    There is nothing wrong with sweets. Chocolate doesn't go bad so if you get it to your office, you can portion out a little bit every day; same with cookies. If these are hard boiled eggs, I see a lot of egg salad in your future.
  • shawnaes91
    shawnaes91 Posts: 60 Member
    If you're worried about hard boiled just limit how many you eat daily. I like eating hard boiled eggs instead of scrambled or fired eggs. It always just seemed easier.

    If you're worried about candy limit how much you buy for your kids. I don't plan on buying my daughter any candy other than one chocolate bunny, the rest will be little things like sidewalk chalk, a jump rope, and a basketball.
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    Eat them, log them.

    or

    Don't eat them.
  • julesxo
    julesxo Posts: 422 Member
    You don't have to eat them. I bring extra chocolate to work.
  • WeddedBliss1992
    WeddedBliss1992 Posts: 414 Member
    its kind of like leaving cookies for santa. you don't HAVE to eat them. either throw them away or give them to someone else as suggested above.
  • kimzy132124
    kimzy132124 Posts: 75 Member
    Josalinn wrote: »
    do you mean chocolate or hard boiled?

    If hard boiled you could try getting one of those kits that blows the egg out of the shell and make a quiche. If chocolate, well, you could put fewer out. You could also make egg shaped cookies and have fun decorating them and then instead of eating them all at once, freeze them and bring them to work. You could bring the chocolate to work too.

    There is nothing wrong with sweets. Chocolate doesn't go bad so if you get it to your office, you can portion out a little bit every day; same with cookies. If these are hard boiled eggs, I see a lot of egg salad in your future.

    Hard boiled
  • kimzy132124
    kimzy132124 Posts: 75 Member
    I didn't get them any candy except a bunny pop. I did a gardening theme. I mean the hard boiled eggs.
  • Josalinn
    Josalinn Posts: 1,066 Member
    kimzy132124 wrote: »
    Josalinn wrote: »
    do you mean chocolate or hard boiled?

    If hard boiled you could try getting one of those kits that blows the egg out of the shell and make a quiche. ... If these are hard boiled eggs, I see a lot of egg salad in your future.

    Hard boiled

    I stand by what the above. You could also peel them and put them in a Tupperware in the fridge. Spinach and egg salad, you could make deviled eggs and bring them to work, or just eat them over the next few days. I love hard boiled eggs. Low in calories packed in protein.

    If you did the blow out thing, you could get a little tree and thread them and hang them. Then you could leave out a snack of carrots for the Easter Bunny, or a slice of quiche if you make one out of the egg insides.

    Sorry, I don't have kids, so I don't know how attached they might be to tradition. I didn't grow up with the Easter Bunny or Santa so I don't have any experience to draw on that way either.
  • Josalinn
    Josalinn Posts: 1,066 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    You don't have to eat them. Can't the kids eat them? We did, when I was a kid.

    But hard boiled eggs are perfectly diet friendly and make for a convenient snack, IMO.

    I think the idea is like leaving cookies out for Santa. Santa has to eat the cookies. EB has to eat the eggs.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    One egg is about 70 calories. Fit one or two in a day or find recipes to utilize until they're gone.

    Or be like me and don't eat them...hard-boiled yolks are terrible.
  • WeddedBliss1992
    WeddedBliss1992 Posts: 414 Member
    EWJLang wrote: »
    Easter bunny eats carrots at our house. Do rabbits even eat eggs?
    i was wondering the same thing. our easter bunny LEAVES eggs for us to find...we have never left him something. :p

  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    kimzy132124 wrote: »
    Josalinn wrote: »
    do you mean chocolate or hard boiled?

    If hard boiled you could try getting one of those kits that blows the egg out of the shell and make a quiche. If chocolate, well, you could put fewer out. You could also make egg shaped cookies and have fun decorating them and then instead of eating them all at once, freeze them and bring them to work. You could bring the chocolate to work too.

    There is nothing wrong with sweets. Chocolate doesn't go bad so if you get it to your office, you can portion out a little bit every day; same with cookies. If these are hard boiled eggs, I see a lot of egg salad in your future.

    Hard boiled

    wait, we are not even talking about candy???????

    That was my reaction! It never occurred to me that someone might worry about eating one or two boiled eggs once a year. I would also have absolutely no problem throwing them out if I really didn't want to eat them, unlike chocolate eggs (as I can see why you wouldn't want to throw them out!). But yeah I can't understand the problem with either eating or throwing out boiled eggs.
  • AmazonMayan
    AmazonMayan Posts: 1,168 Member
    I've never heard of leaving eggs for the bunny. He always hid our dyed eggs for us to find and brought us a little candy and new church outfit. It's interesting learning different ways people celebrate holidays.

    I got my love for hard boiled eggs because of Easter. It was the only time we really had them growing up and we'd dye a dozen each and then of course get to eat them when we did our egg hunt lol.
  • jtolman619
    jtolman619 Posts: 128 Member
    There are definitely worse things you could be eating. This is the first year we'll be coloring eggs (my daughter is almost 3), and I plan on putting them in the fridge and eating them for snacks during that week.
  • foobazola
    foobazola Posts: 29 Member
    Make egg salad.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    There's no need to eat them. Serve rabbit stew on Easter and tell the kids the bunny died.
  • Realtree2429
    Realtree2429 Posts: 81 Member
    yesimpson wrote: »
    If I was doing this for my (non existent) kids, I'd tell 'em that the Easter Bunny likes red wine and big fat bacon-cheeseburgers >:)

    Bwahahahaha! I love how you think!
  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
    Josalinn wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    You don't have to eat them. Can't the kids eat them? We did, when I was a kid.

    But hard boiled eggs are perfectly diet friendly and make for a convenient snack, IMO.

    I think the idea is like leaving cookies out for Santa. Santa has to eat the cookies. EB has to eat the eggs.

    For sure, but... the kids aren't going to recognize them when they're chopped up in egg salad.

    Peel the eggs and cut them up for egg salad or slice to put on regular salads. Leave a few yolk crumbs on the plate. Move on with your life.
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    Hard boiled eggs are yummy! I'm looking forward to the pretty eggs I get to eat all week!! My family of 6 goes through about 5 dozen every two weeks....
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    There was another Easter thread that actually turned out quite funny!

    I will be having chocolate on Easter. I will also be having pierogies and kielbasa with cold sliced eggs, two things my grandparents always had for us on Easter. :) It will all fit into my calorie goals.

    If you want the chocolate, just fit it into your goals, IMO (unless you have dietary restrictions, obviously).
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    kimzy132124 wrote: »
    Easter is approaching and I'm planning how to get around it diet wise. The kids leave eggs for the bunny but that means I have to eat them... What do I do ?

    1. Start a new tradition. I've personally never heard of leaving anything for the Easter Bunny but if you must have them leave something then maybe switch it to carrots. Carrots make more sense anyway.
    2. Exactly how many hard boiled eggs are you having your kids leave? Maybe tell them one egg from the whole family is enough to leave.
    3. Get a dog or a neighbor's dog. They will happily eat the hard boiled eggs for you. Ask before feeding stuff to someone else's dog though.
    4. Continue as before but just throw away what you don't want to eat. Your kids won't know.
  • kmccann357
    kmccann357 Posts: 91 Member
    edited March 2015
    *edited as didn't read all posts*
    Or think up another tradition, leave out carrots as it's a 'bunny', more logical then egg for a rabbit :P.
  • onyxgirl17
    onyxgirl17 Posts: 1,722 Member
    I love boiled eggs nomnomnom. They are quite healthy as well.

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