Healthy Ideas for Easter Baskets

Video Transcript

"Now the focus in Easter, is on sweets, but you have to realize, there are a whole lot of healthy alternatives, that you can also have for your Easter basket. Principal among these are apples. They're delicious, they're red. They're also a nice, you know, relatively healthy, sweet alternative to just having tons of chocolate in your basket. What's more, come on, you think about rabbits, in your Easter basket. What do rabbits eat? They eat carrots. Nice little snack food, in there, going on. Now, keep in mind, you have to keep carrots, and also to a lesser extent, apples, refrigerated, otherwise, they'll go bad. But a couple hours out in a basket, they'll do just fine. What's more, it'll make your basket, a little bit more diverse, than just having tons and tons of sweets. These type of food, these types of foods will help detemper all the chocolate and other sweets that are in there, or, outright replace them. And, you can get some healthy protein. Baby carrots still are fun to eat, should be a fun treat. Oftentimes, with children, it's the psychology of how you present the food. If you have a bunch of apples and other fun stuff in your basket, it's going to be good times for them. You know, it doesn't have to be just chocolate. Other food items to keep in mind, you can also have yogurt, honey, and things like that. Again, natural, a little less processed, and chocolaty, and sugar high prone, as some of the other items you could have in your Easter egg basket."