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Is the candy in your kid’s Easter basket calling your name? What about all of the candy in the snack room that your co-workers brought into work because they don’t want it hanging around their houses?
Here’s another way to look at it:
If You Want To Walk Off Your Easter Candy
Walking is great for many reasons. Just know that it takes a herculean effort to walk off lots of calories. For instance:
that adds up to 990 calories. You will need to walk 9.9 miles, 15.96 kilometers, or 19,800 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.
that comes to 2076 calories. You will need to walk 20.76 miles, 33.48 kilometers, or 41,520 steps, assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps.
you would rack up 730 calories and you will need to walk 7.3 miles, 11.77 kilometers, or 14,600 steps — assuming you cover one mile in 2,000 steps — to walk off that number of calories. Sounds like a lot, but it’s very doable over a few days.
I spotted these mason jar and candy combos today. I’m always on the lookout not just for good, healthy food — but also for anything that accompanies food that potentially makes it taste better and also might make the dining experience more enjoyable.
These mason jar and candy combinations fit into the second category and made me, and lots of others, smile. They’re really inexpensive to make and can easily serve as both Easter “baskets” as well as great centerpieces for your holiday table. The tulips and Peeps are so awesome that I wasn’t the only one whipping out my phone to take some pictures. They’re just M&M’s on the bottom with Peeps around the sides, some fake grass, and a small vase stuck in the middle that is filled with tulips. Happy, easy, and it makes you smile!
Easter bunnies made of chocolate aren’t really that old a tradition, having been born in Germany in the 1800’s. Although other types of Easter candy like Peeps, jellybeans, and Cadbury eggs are extremely popular, the National Confectioners Association says that on Easter children head for chocolate Easter bunnies first. Adults probably do, too.
Chocolate Easter eggs are even younger than the chocolate bunnies. John Cadbury made the first French eating chocolate in 1842, but the first Cadbury Easter eggs didn’t arrive until 1875 and were a far cry from today’s Cadbury Crème egg. Now there are tons of different types of chocolate eggs: solid, hollow, and with all kinds of fillings.
Hershey’s
Dove
Reese’s
M&M’s
Snickers
Russell Stover
Whoppers
Nestle
Do you think a bag of jellybeans should come with a warning label: “STOP NOW or you’ll keep eating until they’re gone?”
It’s pretty darn hard not to love those little nuggets of sweetness that come in multitudes of colors and flavors and get stuck in your teeth!
Americans eat 16 billion jellybeans at Easter – if they were lined up end to end they would circle the earth nearly three times.
The gummy insides of jellybeans are thought to have originated from the centuries old treat, Turkish Delight. Jellybean outsides are just like the colored hard candy coating, developed in the late 17th century, for the Jordan almond.
The modern jellybean became popular during the American Civil War when Boston’s William Schraft encouraged citizens to send candy to Union soldiers. Jellybeans were the first bulk candy and they became one of the staples of the penny candy that was sold by weight in the early 1900s. Because of their egg shape, which can be taken as representing fertility and birth, they became popular as Easter candy around 1930.
Standard jellybeans come in fruit flavors but there are now a huge number of flavors like spiced, mint, tropical, popcorn, bubble gum, pepper, and cola. They also come in a sugar free version (seems weird, but true – don’t you wonder how many chemicals are in those?).
Teenee Beanee jelly beans and Just Born jellybeans are Pareve & O/U; Jelly Bellies are certified OU Kosher.
Do you eat your jellybeans one at a time, or do you gobble them up by the handful? What about colors and flavors – do you pick out your favorites or just eat them altogether?
Jelly beans are primarily made of sugar and also usually contain gelatin (Jelly Bellies don’t), corn syrup, modified food starch, and less than 0.5% of citric acid, sodium citrate, artificial flavors, confectioners glaze, pectin, carnauba wax, white mineral oil, magnesium hydroxide, and artificial colors.
The traditional jellybean has flavor only in the shell. In 1976, the Jelly Belly (Goelitz) Candy Company introduced their gourmet jellybeans, Jelly Bellies, which are smaller and softer than the traditional kind and are flavored both inside and outside. Jelly Belly makes about 50 different flavors of gourmet jellybeans.
Even though they may give you Technicolor insides, jellybeans are fat free. On average:
If you want more fun facts about Easter Candy head on over to Amazon for Easter Candy Facts and Fun. It’s a lot of fun info for just 99 cents.