Easter Dieting
We all know Easter is the time when Christians celebrate the Resurrection by eating chocolate bunnies and with the traditional buying artificial neon colored grass to put in wicker baskets. Since binge eating is also instrinsic to holidays, holy or otherwise, here’s a handy guide for watching your waistline. First up I found a darling little Easter Pig Out Calorie Binge Counter from about.com. in case you’d like to plan your holiday eating. (Easter Pig Out Calorie Binge Tracker is my name I think about.com calls it something catchier.)
Eating Bunnies: The hollow chocolate Easter Bunny that’s less than 2 ounces is about 260 calories. I didn’t get to be the woman I am today though by eating HOLLOW BUNNIES. Plus we’re supposed to be avoiding empty calories. I’d like my chocolate bunny filled with chocolate. So I’m going to go with the 7 ounce densely packed bunny for 1050 calories.
Eating Bunnies on a Diet: Why not just eat an ear.. or two ears to make it even? Chocolate bunnies are 30 percent ear. Therefore if you eat the ears and pour tobasco on the remaining bunny you can save hundreds of calories.
Just The Ears of a Chocolate Filled Chocolate Bunny:315 calories
Fist Full of Jelly Beans:70 Calories. Jelly beans have no fat so have two fists of them for 140 calories.
Half a Deviled Egg: 73 Calories
Easter Diet Deviled Egg Suggestion: Skip it the eggs they’re DEVILED! This is Easter let’s not go to hell shall we?
5 Peeps:160 Calories
Easter Diet Peep Plan: By my calculations you can have 2.5 Peeps and that’s only 80 calories! I think air is also only 80 calories. So enjoy 2.5 Peeps and give the other 2.5 Peeps to the Carolers.
Pass the ham please.
Happy Easter,
From the Kiki Bunny
Eat Jewish at Easter? Wah? LOL
I have no interest in starting a holy war here on DTBMULF but I always thought we ate ham on Easter just to spite the Old Testament laws. LOL
As for the chocolaty goodness of the bunnies and the sticky, sugar crusted peeps – I honestly think I’m out this year. Out of my mind maybe….but since low carbing I have no desire for candy and sugar. I was grossed out a few days ago with the sugary sweetness of two Tums!! Besides my fav Easter candy is the Cadbury egg!! It’s so sweet it’ll curl your toe nails.
Give me a month or so and I’ll be wanting fresh fruit and I’ll jump off this LC band wagon. Also the knowledge of carbgasms and the rebound feeling of death afterwards has me scared too. But it’s working for now….18 pounds gone since Jan.1. Slow and steady wins the race.
OMG Angela! You are wonder woman.
Also…even though I’m not doing so well with the low carbs right now, I would agree that Easter candy, of all the holiday candys is the least appetizing (tends toward the waxy, oversweet). Halloween candy rules.
It takes a special person to be disgusted by sugar and sweets. Congratulations.
I’ve made an Holiday vow. I only eat it if it’s homemade. Who’s gunna turn down homemade cheesecake, churned and shaped by an obese, old Italian Catholic?
Hey Angela, Mary found the Jewish cookbook in the gift shop at a Catholic hospital last week, so deal whid’ it!
I now come to your blog to be aroused by cartoon ladies. I’m going to go cry in the fetal position alone again.
I have two suggestions:
1) Eat a real bunny vs. a chocolate one. They’re leaner than chicken and, when cooked correctly, can also be more flavorful.
2) Eat Jewish: My suggestion is Cherry Chili Chicken, which Mary made for myself and a local reporter before the All-Star game in Whiteford two evenings ago. I highly recommend the dish for an Easter feast as it feds a lot of people.
I just vanquished the mini-Robin Eggs. They’re sulking in the pantry. It was a struggle, and there were many casualties, but the bag isn’t empty, so I win. Urp.
We used to eat lamb on Easter; a whole leg spiked with garlic cloves and rosemary, roasted new potatoes, and baby peas. Sigh. I just added twenty pounds thinking about it.
I think I’ll go watch a Peeps joust.
Shade and Sweetwater,
K
Kyddryn – ok…that lamb leg sounds delicious!
Furiousball – I TOLD Kiki this would happen! Wait ’til we do a post about motorcycles. There’s also one with her sitting on a rocket.
I’m thinking you two are just out to torture Furiousball. You just string the rest of us along for an audience! (I’m just watching to see if I can figure out Furiousball…..but that’s another matter all together.)
I’m no wonderwoman for my lack of sugar but I AM special….my mommy told me I was special. I’m wit’cha on the home made stuff tho. There is a little fudge shop near my office and on certain days she hangs her sign out “Hand dipped chocolate covered strawberries” Now THAT takes strength!!
I’ve been able to pass up on all the Easter delectibles because in two weeks I’ll be in Brazil. And for Easter, they have chocolate eggs filled with cream that are bigger than your head (seriously, they are bigger than your head!). They take Easter very seriously over there. My MIL is saving one for me filled with milk chocolate cream, and I’m going to have my carbgasm as soon as I walk in the door.
Ooooh, Laural…I am going to have a vicarious carbgasm just thinking about it. Chocolate!
The problem with NOT finishing the bag is that it taunts you until you do.
And furious sorry about the cartoon frustration. I thought the curvy pin ups balanced out my fabulous stick figure art.And when I say fabulous I mean crappy.
I went to the About.com Easter calorie calculator, and a figured out something. Since I care not for candy that is non-chocolate, I can cross off the jellybeans and the Peeps. Blech. That means, I can eat an extra chocolate rabbit ear and two Cadbury eggs. Shhh, this is the new math. The more jellybeans and Peeps that I DON’T eat, is more chocolate that I can eat. Don’t tell me that doesn’t make sense. It makes perfect sense. And I can not eat a whole lot of jellybeans and Peeps. Plus, Kroger has a sweet deal on spiral ham this week. No jellybeans or Peeps = more ham.
Did anyone ever mention you’re a Genius!
Please tell me that just ONE bite of a Cadbury egg is acceptable? Oh, who am I kidding? One bite. heh.
Greta, thanks for coming out of lurkdom on my blog!
xoxo