Awesome Easter Ideas

Easter Experience and Sweet Ideas:)

Advance Happy Easter Everyone!

Easter is something that I look forward, the festive celebration, the egg-hunt, and egg decorating is just so much fun bonding moments for the whole family. This year, I'm really excited! because my kids is now at perfect age, were they expresses their excitement and thoughts about Easter, and that makes me so happy. To pump it up to the next level-  Two days ago, I started shopping for my kids Easter egg basket and came up with this Awesome Easter Ideas. I can't wait to share my kiddies Easter basket. Also, I'll be sharing some sweet recipes, tips, and ideas for awesome Easter celebration. Are you excited? Let's go!

Shopping for Easter Basket: I shopped a week before Easter, where mostly are on SALE. Yes! saving money on things you buy is so much FUN.

Tips: Use coupons, rewards cards, and take advantage on store sales and discounted products. Seasonal products like Easter candies, basket and eggs usually go on sale, paired that with coupons. Awesome!

A Perfect Easter Basket: Aside from sweet chocolates and candies that you put on your Easter egg. You can also put some cute little things like hair ties, nail polish, lip gloss, and coins. Make it FUN!

 
My Kids Easter basket in the MAKING:
Now that we got everything we need for Easter Basket. Let's start!
- Lay piece of paper on the bottom of the basket, to avoid Easter grass from falling out. I used two color of shredded paper on mine as my Easter grass. (Blue and White)
- Put a piece or two candies on the each plastic eggs.
-Once the plastic eggs is all filled with candies. It's time to start putting them on the basket.
- Whoala! Easter basket for kiddies is DONE
Tips:
Used travel size lotion, body wash and hair clips to make more fun. Also used your kids favorite CANDIES.:)

Easter Egg-hunt Ideas:

- Invite your family and friends 3-4 weeks before Easter.
- Scatters the eggs before the egg hunt begin. I suggest hide it all over the house, or if you have big backyard that would be great as well. Make it fun and colorful by using different colors of eggs.
- Make the Easter gathering fun, easy and stress free by letting your friends and family bring some dish to share. Yum!
-Enjoy the moment with your family on Easter and have fun watching the kids hunting for their eggs.

Delicious Food that I LOVE :)
Easter celebration can't be complete without delicious food right? I've listed few of my favorites. Check them out! Maybe you'll find something that you want to try this Sunday. Here we go!

Most favorite food on Holy Week for sure Binignet, followed by Suman Malagkit, and then Biko Espesyal. Those are my top three favorite food. How about you? You can also check link below for more awesome and delicous recipe here on my blog.
Favorite Recipe Collections, Bake Goods, and Sweet Treats

 Egg Decorating with Fiora temporary tattoos:

Aside from the most awaited Easter celebration and making my kiddos Easter basket. I'm also very exited when it comes to egg decorating. Yes! this is something that I look forward to this year. Together with my kids, we dye 6 eggs and color them using an egg coloring. I invited my friends to come over to join with our egg decorating to make it more fun and festive for the kids.We used our Fiora temporary tattoos samples to decorate the eggs. Check out my creation below and also you can check other entries at Fiora Facebook page, OR you can simply check using #EggsPressYourself #StayBright.

The whole experience with egg decorating is so much FUN, Especially I got free sample of temporary tattoos from Fiora. ( Thank you, Fiora )

 I hope this Easter blog post inspires you in making your Easter Basket for your family and friends. Also a fun way to be creative with egg hunt ideas. I'm sure you guys are super excited for Easter, so do I, I simply can't wait on Sunday for our Easter celebration at my Aunt Mo's house. Check out some awesome recipes for Easter here on my blog, and  I'll see you in few days for more awesome, fun and cute inspiring blog post.

Have a fabulous Easter everyone!:)

xoxox- Melgie

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Binignit Recipe

Binignit/ Ginataan Recipe

(my own version of binignit )

Some people called this "Ginataan na Halo-Halo or Ginataan" but in the place were I grew up, we called it "Binignit"  its pretty popular in the Philippines some people sell this in cups for snacks/merienda time on the whole neighborhood, this is usually served during Holy Week in the Philippines  Last couple days I've been thinking about making binignit and finally I made it, luckily for me! I have some fresh riped banana left over from Banana Que I made last week.Throw everything in one pot and wholaa! enjoying binignit in minutes.  Everyone have its own delicious version of making this delightful snack  My version of Binignit was inspired on how I remembered my Mom's made it for us, simple yet deliscious. But due to the  unavailability of some ingredients I only have some few on my binignit. The taste still good though!:).~  I would say that.. simplest ingredients is the best!!C'mon lets start cooking!

Below is the recipe Binignit:)

NOTE: Feel free to add your favorite ingredients like ube, cassava, gabi, landang, small tapioca pearl, bilo-bilo, etc.

 Ingredients:
1/2 cup sweet rice
1 large size sweet potato- cut into cubes
2-3 pieces Saba banana- cut into cubes
1 cup tapioca- it just happen that I only have the purple tapioca, but different color of tapioca is recomended
Sugar- depending on how sweet you want it to be
2 cans coconut milk
1 cup water

Directions:
1.) Cook the tapioca in hot water for 5 minutes, drain and set aside.
2.) In large pot, put the sweet rice along with the 1 cup water. Let it boil until for 10-15 minutes and the rice start to cook.
3.) Add the sweet potato and coconut milk. Let it simmer for 5 minutes.
4.) Add the banana's, tapioca pearl and sugar. Let it stand for another 5 minutes or until everything is cooked through.
5.) Add little sugar or coconut milk if necessary. Serve hot and ENJOY!

 ( c'mon over, let's eat some! )