Easter Bunny & His Basket of Sugar

Here it is Easter Sunday and me without a new bonnet.  Of course I appreciate the religious significance of the day but once you get past that, let's face it, it's all about the sugar.

I bet Easter is right up there with Halloween in pounds of sugar consumed. That Easter basket could contain a record-breaking number of calories.  How many handfulls of jelly beans does it take before your teeth fall out?  I wax rhetorical -- not mathematic so put the calculator away.   Add the Peeps, chocolate bunnies and candy eggs and you can say hello to a sugar coma for most of the day.

The only thing really healthy are the hard boiled eggs, now dyed in colors not found in nature.  Unfortunately, since most of us cook way too many, after a few days they end up slathered with mayo thus cancelling out any possibility of  low calorie edibles.

One of the TV cooking shows made a recipe for sugar-free Peeps.  The host tasted the finished product which was sweetened with agave or stevia or molasses or something of that ilk.  She put on a good oh-this-is-yummy act, but you could see the disappointment in her face.

For some holidays there's just nothing better than pure junk food.  Yes, it rots your teeth and makes the butt grow a tad wider, but you can't top it for bringing back fond memories of Easter morning and that cheap little basket filled with colored plastic grass and sugar.