{"id":18467,"date":"2010-03-30T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=18467"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T14:35:51","slug":"easter-basket-treats-dont-have-to-be-diet-busters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/easter-basket-treats-dont-have-to-be-diet-busters\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Basket Treats Don&#8217;t Have to be Diet Busters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I couldn&#8217;t wait for Easter. After a Lent of no treats, Easter brought a basket of chocolaty goodness and a sugar high that caused a crash reminiscent of the 1929 stock market disaster. When I had my own children, I realized that the calories in many Easter treats just weren&#8217;t worth the exercise required to work them off, and that I could craft a basket for my kids that would be just as happily received, and also better for them too.<a title=\"easter basket\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/easter-basket-treats-dont-have-to-be-diet-busters\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19058\" title=\"easter basket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/easter-basket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the calorie counts of some of the most popular Easter basket treats, and some lower calorie alternatives that won&#8217;t have you in <a title=\"spinning\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/a-beginners-guide-to-spinning\/\" target=\"_self\">spin class<\/a> long after the taste has left your lips.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Cadbury Cream Egg &#8211; 170 calories<\/li>\n<li>Cadbury Chocolate Eggs &#8211; 12 eggs, 190 calories<\/li>\n<li>Peeps &#8211; 4 Peeps, 130 calories<\/li>\n<li>Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Egg &#8211; 190 calories<\/li>\n<li>7 ounce hollow Easter bunny &#8211; 1,050 calories<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lower Calorie Alternatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 Jelly Beans &#8211; around 50 calories<\/li>\n<li>1 Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cup &#8211;\u00a0 around 90 calories<\/li>\n<li>4 Hershey&#8217;s Kisses &#8211; 90 calories<\/li>\n<li>3 Butterscotch hard candies &#8211; 70 calories<\/li>\n<li>Sugar-free Dubble Bubble gum &#8211; 7 calories each<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"flip flops\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/easter-basket-treats-dont-have-to-be-diet-busters\/\" target=\"_self\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19061\" title=\"flip flops\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/flip-flops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>Instead of an Easter basket full of candy, I use this chance to replenish my children&#8217;s outdoor fun. A basket with bubbles, sidewalk chalk and paint, new flip-flops, jump ropes, hula hoops, footballs and sunglasses, not to mention a cool new bathing suit and sunscreen. How about a new soccer ball and fresh shin guards? Add in hair ties and lip balm for girls, some matchbox cars for the boys, and everyone gets a spiffy new toothbrush and maybe even a great book.<\/p>\n<p>Need to fill Easter eggs for an egg hunt? Instead of candies, try cereal pieces, Annie&#8217;s cheddar bunnies, coins or cash (only for older kids!), temporary tattoos or stickers, or dried fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the hard-boiled <a title=\"easter eggs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/we-love-easter-eggs\/\" target=\"_self\">Easter eggs<\/a>; they truly are one of the healthiest things you can put in the basket. Use them to make a pastel-tinted egg salad for lunch after the hunt (replacing the mayo with plain Greek yogurt)!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying the holiday doesn&#8217;t have to mean suffering from a sugar crash that evening. As with everything, keep the sweet treats in moderation and get creative with things outside the candy aisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, I couldn&#8217;t wait for Easter. After a Lent of no treats, Easter brought a basket of chocolaty goodness and a sugar high that caused a crash reminiscent of the 1929 stock market disaster. When I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/easter-basket-treats-dont-have-to-be-diet-busters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367,3695],"tags":[280,1351,340,29,279],"class_list":["post-18467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-candy","tag-easter","tag-holidays","tag-nutrition","tag-sugar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19003,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/19003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}