to think Easter is more fattening than Christmas Day?

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Ours in not a house that goes over the top with extras on Christmas Day, and a roast can be a healthy meal. Easter, however, seems to be a long gorge on chocolate, hot cross buns and Simnel cake.

Disclaimer: only thinking about Christmas Day and not the work parties, umpteen meals etc.

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Aces? Case!

Easter is very hectic particularly the build up to Easter. I suppose a lot depends on what Easter means to you. Last Sunday my family took part in a palm Sunday processsion. Today our diet was very plain. We have eaten sausages because Good Friday is quite a sad day. I know the Roman Catholics eat fish, but fish is a luxury where as 2000 years ago it wasn't.

Tomorrow ds is taking part in an Easter children's workshop at church. They are having races and games as well as arts and crafts. We will go to church on Easter Sunday. I have vetoed going to the 5am service although my son wants to go.

If my children were older, I would like to do the pillimage to the cathedral.

My children do have easter eggs, but they don't eat them all at once. Chocolate is not the centre of our easter.

We're church goers too Really. The hot cross bun fest was after the 3pm service!

at the Church that is . This never used to be the case as the vigil was continuing.

Just another weekend to me.
No special food, not even easter eggs this year.
I am however tucking into a hot cross bun.

Agree Easter is just another weekend.

It is not as bad foodwise as Christmas as the weather is generally better, and can go out and about for walks etc. Plus it is only a couple of days, not 10 days off like Christmas, and all the food madness.

I think if you have been fasting in Lent, or have given up something you would normally eat such as chocolate then it doesn't matter, you are just replacing the calories you didn't eat.

Not really a chocolate lover, but I will not allow my kids to gorge on Easter eggs all day

I call Easter Sunday Chocolate Day because that's all it is to me. A day when people give te kids chocolate. They get one each on the day and the rest as treats therafter. I don't attatch any personal significance to the day at all and see no reason to let the kids eat chocolate all day because it's Easter.

I do see it being worse than Christma for chocolate. The kids get waaaaay more chocolate at Easter than at Christmas.

Definitely less calorific than Christmas round our gaff!

None of us are big chocolate eaters, even the kids funnily enough. I like it, but I have to be about to come on in the mood. DC prefer jelly sweets.

We will still have a roast, but a much lighter affair than christmas lunch