Chocolate goes well with many holidays, and for good reason! But sometimes I wonder why it’s bigger for some holidays (Valentine’s and Easter) and not others (Fourth of July or Thanksgiving). Anyway, I dug up a little history to explain why chocolate and Easter go so well together:

“It was at about this time (early 1800’s) that the first chocolate Easter egg appeared in Germany and France and soon spread to the rest of Europe and beyond. The first chocolate eggs were solid soon followed by hollow eggs. Although making hollow eggs at that time was no mean feat, because the easily worked chocolate we use today didn’t exist then, they had to use a paste made from ground roasted Cacao beans.

“By the turn of the 19th Century, the discovery of the modern chocolate making process and improved mass manufacturing methods meant that the Chocolate Easter Egg was fast becoming the Easter Gift of choice in the UK and parts of Europe, and by the 1960’s it was well established worldwide.” ~ A History of Easter

What are your favorite chocolate Easter treats?

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Milk Chocolate: A Love Story. Too cute!

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Easter is still over a month away but stores have had candy and decorations out for over a week now, so I figured I may as well too! Check out the poll over in the sidebar titled “Easter Chocolate Poll.” —>

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While I’m all for consuming chocolate (obviously), I also completely understand that everything we eat, chocolate included, needs to be offset by some exercise. If we don’t work off the calories we take in, we get fat, plain and simple. My strategy has always been to eat what I want, never diet, but exercise as needed. So far it is mostly working, although I find as I age I need to continually work a little harder at it.

But since tomorrow is Easter Sunday, I know that I will be consuming more than my usual amount of chocolate, so I should do more than my usual amount of exercise. But how much more? The Eat in Colour Chocolate Offsetting Calculator has come to my rescue. This handy dandy tool allows you to plug in the number of grams of chocolate you eat (honestly), along with the type of chocolate (milk, dark, or white). It will calculate (watch carefully, it is quite amusing) how many calories you have taken in. Then it will give you a list of suggested activities that you can undertake to burn off those calories. Very cool.

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