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As a dedicated chocolate fan, Easter is one of my favourite times of the year. I love the delicious artisanal chocolates and I love the trashy supermarket eggs. I love the excuse to eat chocolate at all mealtimes and for snacks in between.
However, since having kids, my enjoyment of Easter feasting is not quite what it was. Children certainly want all the eggs the bunny (and their relatives) will give them. But I have a sneaking suspicion this isn’t very good for them.
So, how can you manage the Easter chocolate with kids? Nutrition expert Clare Dix and her University of Queensland colleagues write while there isn’t much in chocolate that is healthy for children, it is OK for them to have some. But to stop the weekend being a 24/7 choc-fest, they recommend you fill your kids up on some savoury things first and offer smaller, individually wrapped eggs in your hunt. This means you won’t have to spend all your time nagging your kids
and demonising chocolate as a “bad food”.
And in non-chocolate-related Easter news, Robyn J. Whitaker takes a look at why the Stations of the Cross ritual still persists today, Panizza Allmark tells the surprisingly religious story of rock music, and David Tombs reveals how the
loincloths featured in many depictions of Christ on the cross are a relatively recent addition for modesty’s sake.
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Judith Ireland
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