Remembering the Real Meaning of Easter
Easter eggs are sold in their millions, but there is no doubt that Jesus Christ would be happy about his rising from the dead, being linked to factory-farmed dairy and plastic packaging. Whether you are a Christian or not, you don’t have to miss out on Easter egg celebrations, when there are so many good choices around!
Keep chocolate eggs away from pets (also due to other unsafe ingredients).
Watercolour Easter Greetings Cards (on recycled paper)
These watercolour Easter greetings cards are perfect to stock up on, when sending a card at Easter time. They are hand-painted and printed onto eco-fleck card (made from brewer’s grain) in an A6 size. The cards are blank inside for your message, and are sold with 100% recycled brown Kraft envelopes.
Recycled paper greetings cards reduce waste, and are far better than paper printed with FSC-paper (which still involves trees being chopped down).
Never sent plantable cards to homes with pets, as many wildflowers are toxic to pets. Daffodils and all bulbs are unsafe to pets, wildlife, livestock (and chickens).
Vegan chocolate Easter eggs
Mini vegan Easter eggs (Addicted to Dates)
- Animal-kind. Cows can celebrate with you, when you choose vegan!
- Dairy-free eggs are better for anyone with lactose intolerance.
- Less packaging. Vegan Easter eggs tend to be sold in sustainable packaging, produced by people who care about our planet.
- Better ingredients. You’ll usually find that vegan Easter eggs in shops use better chocolate chocolate, and less cheap fillers.
Coco Caravan (filled with gooey caramel)
Coco Caravan (Gloucestershire) offers dark chocolate eggs in boxes illustrated with mandalas. Each egg is filled with gooey caramel.
Plamil (coffee and hazelnot egg bars!)
Plamil offers a vegan coffee chocolate egg. And a hazelnot egg bar! This brand was one of the first-ever vegan food companies in England, and still going strong!
Luisa’s Vegan Easter Eggs are from a small company in Nottingham, which pays way more than Fair Trad to its cocoa suppliers. Everything’s also sold in sustainable packaging.
How Lent inspires simple living
Vegan Easter cookies (Full of Plants)
Lent is a 40-day liturgical season of prayer (and sometimes fasting and almsgiving) practiced in the Catholic and other Christian faiths. It begins on Ash Wednesdays and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday, designed to spiritually prepare for celebrations of Christ’s Resurrection at Easter.
Fasting is not practiced if not safe. But for everyone else, Catholics will fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and every Friday during Lent)
