Happy Easter (Part 2)

Another reason that we like Easter so much is because of the great food that is associated with it.

Bears just love Hot Cross buns especially toasted with real butter. In fact Sebastian and Marmaduke like them so much that they said they would be happy to eat nothing else but Hot Cross buns all day, provided the local shop could bake enough to satisfy their bear sized appetites.

In our first picture you see these two guys tucking into their breakfast buns. As you can see from Sebastian's face eating buns is a serious business.


By the time it gets to Easter Sunday, however, we have satisfied our Hot Cross bun craving sufficiently to get excited about chocolate Easter eggs. Buying Easter eggs this year has, however, been a bit difficult for us. Let us tell you why. As you will know from recent blogs we are keen supporters of Fair Trade and have undertaken to only buy Fair Trade chocolate as we won't buy from companies that condone child slave labour.

We are very unhappy with the leading supermarkets as the range of Fair Trade Easter eggs on sale has been very poor, for some of our friends it was non-existent, they failed to secure a Fair Trade egg after visiting 3 major supermarkets. We feel some 'disappointed of Norfolk' letters to the supermarket managers coming on.


As you see in our picture above we did have some success but we would have liked more choice. We tracked down a 'Divine' Fair Trade egg, which turned out to be a good one as it included chocolate brazils, another bear favourite. As this was the only Fair Trade egg we found we had to make do with the CO-OPs selection of Fair Trade chocolates as an alternative. Although this box of chocs is disappointingly not egg shaped, we do have to admit they are worth having as there are some rather special flavours. How do Berry Burst, Fudge Crunch and Madagascan Vanilla sound to you? For our nutella loving friend Bear, there is even one called 'nut heaven'.

Hopefully in our Easter blog next year things will be different, and there will be so much choice we will have to make decisions about which Fair Trade egg to buy, here's hoping!

Have a lovely holiday Monday,

Lots of love from all at B.U. xxx