How to Create a Sugar-Free Easter Basket

Most Easter baskets are filled with sugar. However, with a little effort you can create a tasty sugar-free basket that will thrill any child.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 12 Plastic Easter Eggs
• Plastic Easter Basket Grass
• Sugar Free Recipes And Ingredients
• Easter Baskets
• Sugar-free Candy
• Sugarless Gum
• Colored Plastic Wrap
• Easter Stickers
• Toys

1. Buy a pretty Easter basket, a dozen plastic eggs and a package of brightly colored plastic Easter grass.

2. Purchase a nice assortment of sugar-free candy, mints and bubble gum.

3. Search both your local health food stores and the Internet for good-quality sugar-free candy bars, chocolates, and other yummy stuff from companies that specialize in sugar-free desserts.

4. Find recipes on the Internet for sugar-free treats (peanut butter cookies, bran-apple muffins, and even brownies) that use fruit juice, jam or artificial sweetener instead of sugar; bake the majority of the treats yourself.

5. Wrap your homemade goodies in colored plastic wrap, tie them with ribbon and decorate them with Easter stickers.

6. Make up for the absence of Cadbury eggs and chocolate bunnies by adding several toys such as stuffed animals, action figures, coloring books and trading cards.

7. Fill the plastic eggs with sugar-free hard candy and other tiny surprises like stickers, Hot Wheels and erasers.

8. Include a $10 bill or a toy store gift certificate in one plastic egg.

Tips & Warnings

• Diabetic Web sites are loaded with delicious sugar-free recipes.
• If you can't find any sugar-free candy, try looking in the pharmacy department. Often there will be a rack of sugar-free candy near other medical supplies for diabetics.
• If this basket is for an adult, include a sugar-free cookbook or two cute coffee mugs and a pound of coffee, or a box of herbal tea instead of toys. Fill the plastic eggs with teabags, nuts, sugar-free candy and little notes or poems.

on 4/3/2006 Alternatives to candy for the basket: sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, art supplies, coloring books, balsa gliders, board games, card games, books, puppets, seeds for a garden, bubbles and wands, juggling balls.

For eggs, use plastic eggs filled with stickers, jewelry or hair ornaments (for girls), pennies, matchbox cars, balloons, bead kits, socks, trading cards, seed packets for a garden.