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To cut down on sugar, try substituting Splenda (TM) or another sugar-free sweetener in from-scratch cookie recipes.

Certainly save some of the cookies for family consumption. Again emphasize sharing and caring by having each child give one to a friend and also to someone in the neighborhood who needs cheering up.

One of our neighbors was diabetic and couldn't eat the cookie we took her, but she cried at the gift. Her family couldn't come home that year, and she said it made a great deal of difference to know we cared.

She solved the cookie consumption by cutting it into thirds and serving those with glasses of milk to my three children.

A fun, fast and also edible craft is to make Easter bunny desserts on Easter Sunday, not long before the holiday meal. Have a chilled pear half for each person, curly leaf lettuce for the "grass" bed, raisins (eyes), blanched almonds (ears), red hots (nose and a few for a mouth), plus tiny scoops of cottage cheese for tails.

Construction is simple. Flatten a curly lettuce leaf enough for one half pear to rest on. The narrow end is the face. Poke in the features and ears in appropriate places (ears right above the eyes). Add the tail. Refrigerate until it's time to eat. If more than three or four are needed, arrange them on a cookie sheet and use a broad-based lifting utensil to transfer them to dessert plates after the meal.

One great thing about the bunny desserts is that, after the Easter basket candy, they provide solid nutrition. Just don't tell the kids!

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