Easter Baskets with No candy ?

My children get candy, but not only candy. I use to put thootpaste and thoothbrusch in the basket, socks, things for the hair. This year they will even get new hairbrusches. The smallest will get some small books. My children doesn't eat much candy but Easter is a season that they do. I think it's good to give other things as well as candy!

I will always put a bit of candy in their baskets, but it's never ALL candy. They always get a chocolate bunny, a handful or two of little chocolates that are usually wrapped in foil, and maybe a couple other small special candies, and that's about it. The majority of their basket is toys or something. This year 3 of the kids will be getting a T shirt, my oldest will get a hat, all of them will get a stuffed toy, and the little 2 will get plates from the Disney Store. The 3 middle ones will also get bubbles!

My son's are adults,my daughter is too old for a basket also.My grand daughter is 2 and I got her a small bucket because I think her parents got her a basket,hopefully.In the bucket I just put a few toys,hair bands and stickers.I am going to put a little bit of candy and granolla bars that she likes.

For the last few years my mom and aunt have done things like a couple packs of gum, fruit roll ups, a single chocolate bunny and some hidden hershies candy. It works out to about 1 hersheys per kid and adult. Then its all gone. Not like the GALLONS of chocolate and candy they used to hide when i was a kid. When i was about 12 we found out i wasnt supposed to have certain things so in my basket rather than chocolate and candies I got earrings and stuffed animals, rubber boots and stuff like that. I've gotten things like that in a basket since and i really like that - as i got older things like the stuffies were replaced with socks and cool panties. My sisters and i (the two who are adults now) do a basket for our parents now too.

nah my kids get one egg and thats it he he he what a cruel dad i am, we do easter egg hunts aswell but they are to find decorated boiled eggs not chocolate ones. Then any other choc eggs we get we melt down and make some chocolate crispy cakes for the next few weeks

I've had the displeasure of seeing the after effects sweets can have on an eight year old.It's not a pretty site. There was construction paper and crayola everywhere. I still have visions of the carnage when I try to sleep at night. My therapist say's it'll pass with time. If I had kids, I would make sure to limit their access to sweets for sure. I'm not sure what it is about sugar that gets them so juiced. It's darn near cartoonish. Seeing a hyper kid makes me look out falling anvils and stuff. my mom tells me I was prone to sugar rage when I was young. Of course I don't remember any of the stories she seems to have come up with over time. Maybe there's a reason for that. Perhaps I was too buzzed off skittles to know what I was doing at the time. I kind of feel sorry for kids. They know not of what they do. How can we expect them to take responsibility when they can't even spell it? the corporations know that bright colors and silly mascots are the way to get their attention. They also know that continuous begging and crying will cause adults to cave in to the demands of a little one.

my daughter loves peeps so they will be in there. I may add a little chocolate and then the rest are little gifts.

When my girls were growing up, I did put candy and a big Easter bunny in their baskets. Now that my oldest is grown and married, she has a little boy. Guess what? He is allergic to soy, so that rules out chocolate for him! Instead I bought him some other candy that he can eat and a talking book. He gets the best of both worlds this year!

I do buy some candy but I also get little things here and there so they don't have all candy. I don't see filing the basket up with all candy - it just means more dentist's visits!

I don't use candy in my easter baskets, but my oldest child is diabetic so I never have. My other kids have learned not to eat as much either because she cant have it. So needless to say I buy big things to fill it up or it can get really expensive.

we don't have this kind of tradition. though some rich people do that. but it is exclusive still for some people. and not commonly done here.

We still put a few treats in the baskets. Nothing like the sugar fest that we used to get when we were little though. Mainly we look for little toys and maybe a dvd to put in the basket. We'll also collect the candy and give it back a little at a time so our little boy doesn't try and over-do it in one day.

Our kids will get a few easter candies to hunt for (like chocolate eggs, jellybeans) but they also get toys, small items of clothing, like socks, and easter books. I figure you can't go wrong with books. It wouldn't seem like Easter without the candy though.

I have a neighbor who doesnt allow her kids to have candy at all. So I am not sure what her plans are for the Easter Bunny. I put candy in my kids baskets. I usually keep a basket or container of somekind in my house all year and I switch out candy with the holidays or seasons and my kids dont really eat alot of candy. My oldest would rather have carrots with dip or pretzels. My middle would eat all the candy if I would allow but we dont. They get it as a treat and on occasion, its not daily. But they know it is here so they dont go crazy over it like alot of other kids do when its around. All the neighbor kids always come over here for candy and you would swear some of them have never had any. I buy candy at the dollar store on occasion as well and I have never had an issue with it.

This is our first year with Easter baskets (last year he was too young) and I'm just going to do some little toys and a book. He doesn't need candy and he'll have fun without it. At Hallowe'en he had more fun with the toy cars he received than with the small amount of candy he got. He likes candy but he doesn't really care yet.

My kids don't get much candy or toys for Easter. They will get a few candies and maybe a movie or something. I was thinking about taking them to an Easter egg hunt this year though. They would get enough candy there.

I lean toward putting more toys and less candy in my son's basket. Some jelly beans and a small chocolate bunny are about it for candy. I like to give him things that will last him longer, plus the fact that candy is not good for him. I give him stickers, and some small toys that he can enjoy long after the candy is gone.

My kids have outgrown baskets, but I do prepare them for my nieces. I'll usually stick to one or two pieces of "good" candy, and a small stuffed bunny. It's too expensive these days!

i try to limit the candy that i put in my kids easter baskets. I get little toys or summer things to put in their basket. Since the weather's turning nice i try to get them things to encourage them to get outside

I have three children one is type 1 dibeties. I always build him an my other childern baskets with no candy. The one thing i have noticed that it is cheaper to add candy to any hoilday. But i do with I could find mor basket stuffers without candy in it. I have also never found and ready made one with no candy in it. To be honest we do it dollar tree style and i try to focus on arts and crafts the most. The good thing about easter he can eat all the eggs he wants and it wont effect his blood at all. Thea bad news or maybe good news he doesnt like them. I only use candy in case of an low blood which he is so out of it to bad for him he dosent remeber it at all.