Just like there’s more than one way to skin a cat, there are some alternative ways to dye Easter eggs.
You don’t have to spend a wad of bills on fancy prefab kits to create colorful contents for your bunny basket.
Just head into your kitchen and check your pantry. The low-tech version of a dye job is also a greener, more natural way to add hues to a dozen or so eggs.
Everything from grape juice concentrate to red cabbage can produce a rainbow’s worth of colors. Nearly all your favorite colors in the Crayola box can be reproduced with the likes of onion skins and beets.
If you really want to get creative, leaves and flowers from your backyard or the park can also be put to use and act as stencils to apply patterns and designs to your creations.
And just think. If you’re trying to maintain a diet, all the natural foods you use will tempt you a lot less than the milk chocolate bunnies on the holiday aisle in the store.
Recipes for dye colors and information on how to use stencils is available at Divine Caroline.
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