4/11 Thank You Easter Bunny
Happy Meatless Monday. There are seven Easter recipes in a link from this post for meatless feasting.
Yesterday we enjoyed the first real Spring day in Michigan and it was magical. I wore shorts and flip flops and could feel the sun healing my soul after an especially long winter. The sudden warmth shocked me into the realization that Easter is almost here.
Sandy and I have dyed Easter eggs together every year for the past eight years. T
his is our first vegan Easter. Change is good right? I have been thinking of alternatives to dying eggs and eating Starburst jelly beans that maintain the joy and fulfillment of ritual we have created while honoring our desire to celebrate in a more compassionate way this year. With little effort I found a ton of great ideas including painting wooden eggs. They can be enjoyed year after year so it is a cruelty free, sustainable and fun thing to do with people you love. Isn’t that what ritual is really about? Looking forward to the feeling that something creates is half the joy. It isn’t really the activity itself that is as important as the ceremony surrounding it and excitement leading up to the moment or event shared with the people you love.
There is a company online called Woodworks Ltd that is creating several different sizes of wooden eggs. You may also find the eggs at your local craft store.
I also would like to share a fun article on this very topic from VegNews. It has an exciting list of vegan Easter treats and seven recipes that will inspire you to create a feast fit for Peter Rabbit.
No reason to harm animals in the celebration of Easter and Spring. Lets try new things this year. Do you adopt a rabbit (virtually) from a farm sanctuary or do a special craft or volunteer project? If you have additional ideas or Easter moments to share I would love to hear them.
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Have a delicious day.
Photos courtesy of VegNews.
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April 12th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Thanks for the link for vegan Easter recipes. That’s exactly what I was looking for!
And I was wondering, too, how I would decorate for Easter. It’s our first vegan Easter too! Painting wooden eggs is sustainable, green, and cruelty-free. I love it!
April 12th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
What a great idea to adopt-virtually bunny as a new Easter ritual. It could be the new ritual similar to an online adoption of Turkeys from Farm Sanctuary on Thanksgiving.
Painting wooden eggs is a good idea, too. I stopped painting Easter eggs 4 years ago and don’t miss it that much. However I miss the other family traditions that were around Easter and German milk chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs. I went shopping for Easter candy today and didn’t find anything vegan that would look like a bunny or an egg so I just bought some dark chocolate bars.
April 14th, 2011 at 11:36 pm
Mary,
I am so glad. First vegan Easter is very exciting. We are still deciding what edibles we would like to have but I feel fairly certain that the key lime pie from 4/7 is on the menu. Today I found a package of paper mache eggs, six in a pack at a craft store. They will be perfect to decorate with paint, markers, stickers…whatever our heart desires.
April 21st, 2011 at 7:00 am
We’ve made paper mache eggs and they’re so much fun (I love getting messy with my nieces and nephews!)…just glue water, balloons and ripped paper.
Go from sparkly http://thechocolatemuffintree.blogspot.com/2011/03/paper-mache-easter-egg-decorations.html
to to sublime http://www.tobwabba.com.au/items_large/paper_mache_eggs_turtle.jpg?id=609
Happy Decorating!