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A Chicken Coop – or a Basket – of Chocolate Easter Eggs

By on April 1, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Easter Eggs – the Confectionary Type They’re everywhere and at every price point.  Some are piped with flowers and others are wrapped in foil.  You find them in chain stores, discount stores, and at high end chocolatiers. Easter is the second ranked holiday for candy purchases in the United States (just behind Halloween) and solid, [...]

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What’s In Your Easter Basket?

By on March 30, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Peeps, Jelly Beans, Chocolate Bunnies and Candy Easter Eggs Easter candy nesting in baskets on beds of paper straw.  Brightly wrapped candy stuffed in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.  Chocolate smeared over little kids’ faces and indestructible peeps molded into weird shapes before being popped in the mouth. It’s Easter candy time.  Face it – [...]

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