What do you eat on Spring Holidays?
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (40797)
United States
March 15, 2024 12:52pm CST
We celebrate Easter in our family.
My kids got Easter Baskets with green shreds for grass. We filled the basket with candy and small toys, often chicks or bunnies. It seems that they stuffed themselves with too much candy.
We usually had ham with the fixings for dinner. Sometimes, we ate turkey instead of ham.
We always started the morning with hard-boiled eggs. The kids put them in dye and then decorated them. They had fun and got to eat egg salad sandwiches the next day.
Do you celebrate any spring holidays? What do you eat? What are your traditions?
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@RasmaSandra (74146)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Mar
I no longer celebrate Easter, I mean I acknowledge Easter as a religious holiday and family holiday but I no longer have anyone to celebrate with, Back in Latvia with my husband we used to have a special Easter dinner and begin the day with colored eggs just for the fun of it. Sometimes we hid eggs on each other and that was always fun,
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@RasmaSandra (74146)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Mar
@akalinus but the memories are great
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
20 Mar
@RasmaSandra Yes, they are. Some years, I took them to a big egg hunt with big prizes (candy) to find as well as eggs. They started using plastic eggs with candy or toys in them because the health people did not want eggs sitting around in a field.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
16 Mar
I know the feeling. My husband is gone and my kids are in another state. When they were little, they always started the day with Easter baskets with candy and little toys. We had an egg hunt some years. Sometimes it was too snowy and cold to go outside.
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@kaylachan (58971)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Mar
Growing up, we'd dye aggs and go on an easter egg hunt. Now, I don't do anything except be thankful I made it another year. Thankful I'm sitting at my desk this year, instead of a hospital room.
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@kaylachan (58971)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15 Mar
@akalinus I agree. I'm thankful everyday for it. It makes me happy being able to sit in my broken down wheelchair turned office chair and just go. To just sit here . Using my desk.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
20 Mar
@kaylachan Any day that you can sit at your desk is a good day. It is a good use for your wheelchair. Can you spin around in it?
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@RebeccasFarm (86976)
• United States
15 Mar
Well St Pats..but not anymore..sometimes I might order something like good fish and chips though.
It used to be I would cook.
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@RebeccasFarm (86976)
• United States
16 Mar
@akalinus Yes that is the trouble these days Jo Ann..here is wishing you a good one.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
20 Mar
@RebeccasFarm We still go places but I would rather stay at home. When I am out, I always look at people and wonder if they are dangerous.
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@just4him (308692)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Mar
Yes, I celebrate Easter. Growing up, my siblings and I would dye the eggs the day before Easter, then Mom and Dad would fill Easter baskets after we went to bed and hide them around the house. There were never toys in our baskets, but lots of chocolate and jellybeans amid the green grass. When my children were little, I did the same thing. No toys. Dinner growing up was usually ham. No, I didn't like ham. I didn't make it for my family. I'm not sure what I made for Easter, probably a pot roast. For the past 24 years at least, I've made leg of lamb for Easter. I introduced it to my adult children, and they love it. Now they demand it when they come for dinner at Easter. I don't do Easter baskets anymore, but I do dye eggs. Which reminds me. I need to buy dye.
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@aninditasen (15804)
• Raurkela, India
16 Mar
It's spring and Holi the festival of colours is on the 25th of March. People spray colour on each other and eat lot of sweets and delicacies.
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@akalinus (40797)
• United States
20 Mar
@aninditasen That makes it even better. Everything comes together in beauty and purpose.
@aninditasen (15804)
• Raurkela, India
17 Mar
@akalinus Holi is a religious festival and at the same time it is a festival to welcome spring too.
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@snowy22315 (171265)
• United States
15 Mar
@akalinus I think I am an other...lol. Hopefully, you will get some interesting responses.
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@marguicha (216459)
• Chile
15 Mar
I don´t much celebrate any holiday now. But when there are holidays in spring and summer, barbecues are part of our life.
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@marguicha (216459)
• Chile
20 Mar
@akalinus Our Independence Day is in spring. And Easter is when fall starts. But we don´t have barbecues for Easter.
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@LeaPea2417 (36594)
• Toccoa, Georgia
15 Mar
We also usually eat ham with the fixings.
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@LeaPea2417 (36594)
• Toccoa, Georgia
20 Mar
@akalinus I have wondered that myself.
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@LadyDuck (460454)
• Switzerland
16 Mar
We celebrate Easter and for the Easter lunch we have some traditional food we eat. I always prepare a savory pie called "Torta Pasqualina" (Easter Pie), it is a savory pie filled with ricotta, Parmesan, spinach and sliced boiled eggs. To follow is usually lamb.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49286)
• United States
15 Mar
Your traditions are the same as mine. This year we will have ham. It will be a late Easter a week or so after Easter Sunday.
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@Dena91 (15934)
• United States
16 Mar
As a kid we would go over to my grandparents for a family meal. They would buy my brother and I a dark chocolate Easter egg filled with coconut, like a huge mounds bar,
Since being married to Mike, we go over to his Mom's after church for a family dinner. She has ham and all the fixings.
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@LindaOHio (158688)
• United States
16 Mar
We have no traditions for Easter. Egg salad sure sounds good though!!! I remember dyeing Easter eggs when I was younger and at home. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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@GardenGerty (157907)
• United States
15 Mar
We usually go to my brother's house. Our attempt to keep the family together. Same for Thanksgiving. Our groups have been smaller this year. We will have ham, for sure. Maybe some Brussel sprouts. He is a pastor and will host an egg hunt on Saturday.
@NJChicaa (116304)
• United States
15 Mar
As a child we had ham because that's what my grandmother would make. As an adult. . . I honestly don't even remember. Maybe ham some years and like london broil on others. For awhile we would always be in Mexico for spring break so the family would have Mexican food at whatever restaurant we chose that night. In the past few years the family hasn't done anything for Easter.
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@Shivram59 (32195)
• India
1 Apr
@akalinus Yes;we celebrate Holi;the festival of colors in Spring.We prepare some special dishes on Holi.But please;don't ask me how we prepare them.All I know is how to eat them.