Bunnies and Eggs and Ham, Oh, My!

 Some great post-Easter ideas from Living on a Dime

 

 

It's almost that time of year again. You're standing, dumbfounded, in front of a mound of hard boiled eggs, sliced ham and chocolate Easter bunnies. You wonder "what am I going to do with 6 dozen eggs, 6 lbs. of ham and 25 chocolate bunnies". The stress of it is almost enough to send you to bed for a week--or at least tear most of your hair out. Here are a few ideas and recipes to help you avoid both of those.

 

First the bunnies:

 

Take a rolling pin and crush the life out of them! Then use the crumbs to:

• sprinkle on ice cream 
• use in milk shakes 
• stir a few in a mug of hot chocolate
• use in place of chocolate chips for making cookies
• melt for dipping fruit and candy

If your kids didn't receive an excess of bunnies this year, buy solid bunnies after Easter on Clearance and use in place of chocolate chips for baking. You can usually get them for 1/4 the price of chocolate chips.

• Next the eggs:
• Deviled eggs
• slice them on tossed salad
• Egg Salad
• Golden Morning Sunshine

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Use the extra ham:

 

• diced in omelets and chef salads
•  added to Golden Morning Sunshine
•  sliced thin for sandwiches
•  Cubed ham with cubed fruit such as Mandarin oranges, pineapple, bananas, strawberries or kiwi on skewers to make fruit kabobs.
•  Top a tortilla with ham, salsa, and cheddar cheese and warm, for a hot ham and cheese sandwich.
•  Save bone for bean or split pea soup.
•  Sheala's Ham and Noodles
•  Ham and Potatoes
•  Ham Casserole
•  Ham Salad
•  Chop ham and freeze to use in:  potato salad, green beans, scrambled eggs, omelets, potato soup, scalloped potatoes, au gratin potatoes, pasties or pizza (with pineapple) or to top baked potatoes.