Eating Easter Eggs
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Depends how it fits into your MMA training plan....3
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I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
My family is apparently a "why not eat both?" type lolol. Perhaps that is part of the reason I am on MFP.1 -
I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Me too. I saw an article on a UK website detailing fancy chocolate Easter eggs and I was so jealous! I can't find anything like that in the states. I told my spouse when we take a trip to London I want to go in April....2 -
MelanieCN77 wrote: »I believe there's actually an upper limit to how many calories your body can get through as far as storing the excess as fat, so I say go crazy
I've actually been wondering about that, given that I don't seem to gain as much permanent weight from binges as the arithmetic suggests...
That's been my experience, too.
I do wonder if one's body would adapt and get better over time at absorbing/storing binge** calories, though some kind of "training effect", if one did it rather regularly (even in medium/long term calorie balance). Bodies are strange and wonderful things, and tend to get better at things that we make them practice, in general (and adapting to storing excess calories would have been, I would think, advantageous in the historical context of famines and natural selection).
Back on topic: Faced with many tasty Easter candies, I'd probably tend toward the "eat lots" end, though my taste for super-sweet, super-rich things tends to be maxed out sooner than it used to be. Now, if I could eat some chocolate eggs, then some old-school Taco Doritos, then some more eggs, then some smoked gouda and garlic potato chips, then some more eggs . . . sensory-specific satiety, yup.
** Not speaking for others, but noting that "binge" has a technical sense (uncontrolled/uncontrollable eating), and an informal sense (chose to eat way, way more than normal, and potentially way more than maintenance calories). I've only done the latter AFAIK, sometimes 2-3 times maintenance calories in a day. Biologically/physiologically, I don't expect that motivation for the eating would make a difference, but I dunno.1 -
missysippy930 wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »I originally thought that you meant hard-boiled dyed eggs. I was gonna say that I dye them and then eat them within the next week.
I thought that at first too. Somehow I managed to survive as a child eating dyed hardboiled eggs that had sat out in my basket this week. I was not a smart child.
I have 6 sisters. Growing up, we dyed 4 dozen hard boiled eggs at Easter, and we had them in our baskets until we finished them. Never refrigerated. I don’t remember any of us ever getting sick from them. I guess things change over time🙂🐣
Large family growing up here too, and we not only had the eggs in our basket but in a large pastel-colored family-heirloom bowl filled with dyed eggs that generally sat out until there so few eggs left that it looked kind of sad and my mother would store the remainder in the fridge. None of us ever got sick from it.0 -
Torxa, the shops start selling them soon after Christmas, although the closer you get to Easter the more stock there is. We certainly have a lot of chocolate in the shops at the moment- eggs, chicks and shapes that have absolutely nothing to do with Easter. Of the 6 that I've bought for younger family members, I have one dinosaur and one Thomas the Tank Engine! The rest are eggs, of varying sizes. I didn't realise that chocolate 'eggs' were predominantly a British thing though, given how popular chocolate is around the world. Your chocolate companies are missing a trick.
To answer the original question, I'd eat them over a period of time- but I have chocolate in the cupboard that I was given at Christmas, so clearly I'm not likely to say 'binge'.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
Central plainsish Flyover country. I mean, we have Cadbury eggs and Reese's eggs and the like, but I'm getting the impression you all are talking about something much better! 0 -
It's interesting to me that for so many people "Easter egg" seems to mean something chocolate. I wonder if this is something that differs regionally? I'm in the U.S., on the east coast, and I would always think Easter egg meant a bird's egg dyed or decorated for Easter -- unless somebody actually said chocolate egg, or talked about sweets, or some other context that made me question whether they were talking about bird's eggs.1
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Funny anecdote. When I was 8 I ate so many eggs one Easter that I spent the whole evening throwing up and felt like death with sulfur burps. Easter eggs tend to be overboiled, so I think that contributed to it, plus my then undiscovered egg white intolerance. We used to play a game as kids where you hit eggs together and you lose if yours breaks. All my eggs were losing eggs, and once the shell is broken the egg has to be eaten because we don't want it to go bad. I still can't eat colored Easter eggs, but if it's the boring white kind I eat it just fine.0
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Easter eggs without additional context also makes me think of the hard boiled and dyed kind.1
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!1 -
You could donate to your local food bank and pop some other necessary extras in whilst you’re at it. I’m sure they would be very much appreciated.1
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I eat the ones that are my favorite and I really enjoy, usually spread out as like 1 or 2 as lunch desserts over a week or two. Any of them that I'm more indifferent about and therefore not really worth the calories, I try to share at work. I keep a candy bowl at my desk for sharing that doesn't tempt me, or put them in our break area and they disappear.0
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
Me too. We got chocolate as a kid (and I'm aware of things like peeps), and might have had an Easter party with sweets, but never sweet Easter eggs. (There were chocolate bunnies I always wanted but my mom didn't get.)
But the sweets element mostly was geared to kids in my family.0 -
A lot of churches around here make and sell chocolate covered peanut butter and coconut eggs. Much better than Reeses. I've had 2 peanut butter and one coconut egg this year and am probably done eating Easter candy. I like the malted milk robin eggs, but can avoid buying any. No kids at home to have Easter baskets of candy.1
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »It's interesting to me that for so many people "Easter egg" seems to mean something chocolate. I wonder if this is something that differs regionally? I'm in the U.S., on the east coast, and I would always think Easter egg meant a bird's egg dyed or decorated for Easter -- unless somebody actually said chocolate egg, or talked about sweets, or some other context that made me question whether they were talking about bird's eggs.
I wonder if part of the conversational trend on this thread is that we'd rather talk about chocolate eggs (something many of us limit) vs. hard-boiled eggs (something many of us see and eat very often).
FWIW: "Easter egg" first means hard-boiled/dyed to me, but I only typed about chocolate ones above, because . . . chocolate!
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)
Not in my childhood, but that might be regional, religious or even class based.0 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I am a bit sad I do not live in a place this particular Easter egg tradition seems to exist
Where are you?
I'm in Massachusetts and I can tell by the store sales flyers that it exists here, but massive amounts of candy was never a tradition in my family for any holiday.
In fact, I was at first confused by the OP, thinking it referred to hard boiled eggs, and couldn't get my head around eating those for months, until I finally realized it referred to candy eggs.
To me, "Easter eggs" = dyed hard boiled eggs.
I’m in Australia where Easter is definitely associated with eating too many chocolate eggs! Sorry I just assumed the rest of the English speaking world would be the same - did not even occur to me to explain I didn’t mean hard boiled eggs!
Australian here too.
Yes easter eggs definitely means chocolate ones here.
Some people do the dyed decorated hard boiled eggs - but a general conversation about easter eggs would mean chocolate ones.
It wouldnt need to be specified, everyone would assume chocolate.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
Do you have Easter egg hunts, and if so, what are you hunting for? (In the U.S. in my experience it would generally be decorated bird's eggs or plastic or wooden things that look at least a little a like a decorated bird's egg, possibly with sweet treats inside.)
Next after hard boiled eggs, "Easter eggs" to me means the plastic ones that you can open and fill with candy, which my younger brother said our parents did, however I have no memory of this so it may have started when I was out of the house.
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I’m amazed at adults being excited about Easter goodies. I’ve always thought Easter was just a candy grab for little kids. I think in my family, Easter faded away about the time that trick or treating at Halloween did.2
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
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I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't only eat a non standard cup reeeses. I don't miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off better when you change the shape.
FIFY :flowerforyou:4 -
I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
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WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
Oh man, obviously chocolate and peanut butter...yum...but the peanut butter part is overpowering in the non cup shape.1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
This is the correct answer. I don't really like the normal size and won't eat the eggs at all, but I enjoy a mini.1 -
WinoGelato wrote: »I have resisted buying the Reeses peanut butter eggs so far. Maybe because I found a great deal on peanut butter Christmas trees the first of the year and still have some (I am ashamed at how many but they were 10 cents each) in my freezer.
I did, however, dye my hard boiled eggs for the week. Looks pretty in my lunch bag!
I won't eat a non standard cup reeeses. I miss the ridges and the chocolate to pb filling ratio is off when you change the shape.
This This This! Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I say I don’t like the Reese’s Eggs.
I do like Reese’s miniatures though. Ridges plus a slightly better chocolate to PB ratio. Especially when frozen.
This is the correct answer. I don't really like the normal size and won't eat the eggs at all, but I enjoy a mini.
I don’t like the normal size, eggs, or miniatures. The unwrapped minis, though, I love. They do taste different. Ratio of chocolate to peanut butter as another poster mentioned. Bigger ones seem overly sweet to me. Cadbury Creme eggs are overly sweet to me also👎🏻1
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