Provide a Safer, Healthier Easter with Homemade Egg Dyes and Other Healthy Tips

by Tony Isaacs

(The Best Years in Life) Coloring boiled eggs has been a longtime Easter tradition. So has including plenty of milk chocolate and other sugar-laden candies. However, many of the food dyes commonly found on grocers shelves are synthesized from petroleum derivatives and even coal tar. This year, provide a healthier Easter for your children by making your own safe dyed eggs and opting for healthier substitutes for most or all of the candies. Read More.

Hi Luella,

This is a cool post, I do hope a lot of people will read and make all those colors. I bet you would get some different colors.
I remember mom telling that they took onion skins to make colored eggs, I don't think they would have been allowed to us any food to color eggs, that would have been wasteful.

Exactly Myrna. When I was a kid we also used homemade coloring. Artificial colorings which, by the way some of which are labeled "natural" are toxins, carcinogens, and can trigger allergies, some dangerous allergies. For example, a few months ago I was visiting a friend who is supposed to be very careful about their health. Ahem. I was given a dessert that had food coloring but because this person is so "healthy" I ate it with complete trust. Well............ five minutes later, my left eye started to swell....... Then my right eye.......... I looked like Homer Simpson. Then........... My throat started to close.......... I couldn't freaking breathe. Ended up calling an ambulance and in the hospital. When I got home, I asked what exactly the ingredients were in that dessert. There was red dye number whatever. I then went on to say why those food colorings are not healthy at all and why. They just didn't understand......... They said........... Well, why are dyes in glucose tablets? They wouldn't give diabetics anything unhealthy. Then........... I freaked. Needless to say, I won't eat anything over there again.