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March 24, 2005
Healthy Easter Basket
One thing you notice when you start CR is that you no longer feel comfortable giving people gifts of sugar-filled, high calorie gak. You actually feel like you're killing them. Since no one wants to be a murderer, I've developed ways of handing holidays that usually call for junk food. For instance, for Easter, I made my mother a healthy Easter basket. Here's what was in it:
dried papaya
two fresh organic fruit juices: mango lemonade and passionfruit berry
lip gloss
four tealights
two votive candles
a pair of Easter earrings
I also got her a nice bunch of tulips, that are hiding in my bathroom until she can come to get them because my cat eats flowers. My cat eats everything, so the fact that he eats flowers is not remarkable.
It definitely takes creativity to deal with holidays in ways that don't involve unhealthy food. It must be hard for people who really liked chocolate. I never loved chocolate, though I ate it occasionally and still share a dessert now and then. I guess it's lucky for me that there was never an entire holiday devoted to the consumption of bagels with cream cheese! Saint Bagel's Day?
Posted by april at March 24, 2005 8:57 AM
Comments
Bagel day? as Homer Simpson would say "Bagels - ummmm"
sorry - wrong channel
Posted by: David Gobel at March 24, 2005 11:06 AM