The Eight Most Fattening Easter Candies

[tyler811]

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You can add Easter to the list of holidays on which Americans are willing to abandon their low-sugar and low-carb diets. In fact, spending on Easter candy increased 5.6 percent between 2006 and 2007. Easter typically ranks as the holiday with the second-highest spending on candy, right behind Halloween. If these trends continue, an excess of bunnies and eggs is likely right around the corner. But not all of these treats are equal when it comes to nutrition. Here's where eight of the most popular Easter candies land on the calorie scale. They range from a demure 130 to a whopping 1,050 calories.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Thanks for ruining yet another holiday for us. Is there a high holy day for bran muffins and fruit?

 

[nanette1985]

That was one of the dumbest articles ever.

<<6. Lindt Chocolate Carrots. In a sea of eggs and bunnies, chocolate carrots are one of the more unusual Easter candy options--Lindt only started offering them seven years ago. Sadly, they have little nutritional value in common with their vegetable counterparts: a box of four carrot-shaped chocolates has 210 calories.>>

Are they kidding? Chocolate Carrots are different from regular carrots? Wow, news flash.


<<8. Large Chocolate Bunny. Not surprisingly, the bunny reigns as king when it comes to Easter calories. But the calorie count may still raise a few eyebrows: the average seven-ounce rabbit clocks an impressive 1,050 calories. Smaller bunnies are better--rabbits of the one-ounce variety only rack up 140 calories.>>

Gosh. A Large Chocolate Bunny has more calories than a small chocolate bunny. I never would have figured that out.

Anyway, if a one-ounce bunny has 140 calories, simple math shows that a seven-ounce bunny would be seven times that, or 980.

This thread is, of course, making me hungry for Chocolate Bunnies and stuff. Can't wait until the after-Easter sales when I stock up.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: princess ida
This thread is, of course, making me hungry for Chocolate Bunnies and stuff. Can't wait until the after-Easter sales when I stock up.

Same here. I'm glycogen depleted and starving for a cadbury cream egg and some reese's peanut butter anythings... And some jelly beans. And peeps.