Building a Better Easter Basket with Whole Foods Market

My childhood memories are filled with waking up at Easter morning, searching for plastic eggs in the backyard then stuffing my face with giant Easter bunny chocolate and cream-filled eggs. Then probably passing about by 2pm because of my massive sugar high. Looking back, I can’t believe the food that I had been chowing down on. So many hydrogenated fats, artificial preservatives and sweeteners, artificial flavors and colors…aka all CRAP. I was eating complete crap and no one was telling me otherwise.

But times have changed and there are so many better options out there for building a better Easter basket, filled with treats, snacks and food that you can be proud to not only eat yourself, but serve other people, as well.

And today I’ve teamed up with Whole Foods Market to show you exactly how I built my own Easter basket and what I will be making this next Sunday! When I was trying to figure out what I wanted in my own Easter basket, I immediately thought about chocolate, meaning wiped up my slobber from thoughts of chocolate. But nowadays, I don’t eat just any chocolate. I want chocolate that is satisfying and not filled with unneeded ingredients, so I shopped through their MASSIVE assortment of chocolate and picked up a Taza chocolate bar plus a free2b dark chocolate sunflower seed butter cup!

Next, I shopped some of their snack items that I would be proud to share with others. I picked up a couple of Larabars, a pack of Barnana dark chocolate covered bananas, Steve’s Paleo Goods dried strawberries, and Dang coconut chips. Imagine making a big bowl of trail mix with all of that…ummmm HELLO, that would be SO good!

And before I moved onto the baking section, I picked up a container of WOW chocolate chip cookies that are gluten free and 100% delicious! I love getting these little bite size cookies for special events! Once my goodie basket was complete, I moved onto food that would be perfect for serving throughout the day. And since starting Easter morning off with a baked good just feels like a must, I picked up a box of Simple Mills pumpkin muffin mix then grabbed a bag of Enjoy Life dark chocolate morsels to mix into the batter! What better way to start off the day than with a batch of paleo muffins hot out of the oven!?

And just in case any snacking needed to occur throughout the day, I picked up some savory items to offset all the sweet. First I grabbed the sun-dried tomato Simple Mills crackers then I got a jar of The Honest Stand blue cheese sauce (with no dairy!) and a container of Applegate Farms prosciutto. So whenever our salt craving hit, we could build some delicious cracker stacks with a little blue cheese sauce and prosciutto on top!

Something I love about Whole Foods Market and why I continue to go back is that they are always adding new items to their shelves that I can be proud of eating. I’m not forced to eat food with unknown ingredients or worry about the quality. I know what I’m getting, I know what I’m feeding my family, and I know that I’m continually able to find delicious food with quality ingredients. And Whole Foods Market wants you see everything they have to offer! So right now you can enter to win a $100 Whole Foods Market giftcard! Click here to enter -> $100 Whole Foods Market Giveaway for the chance to win!

And don’t forget to Find Your Local Whole Foods Market to find all these snacks plus many others that you can be proud to eat and proud to share with the ones you love! Holidays come and go, but our health is something that lasts much longer! So take care of it! Take care of yourself, take care of the ones you love, and be proud of the food you have in your own home! Whole Foods Market will help you get there!

{ This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Whole Foods Market. All opinions are 100% mine! }