How to celebrate Easter in a sustainable way? Easter is a celebration of hope, resurrection, love and joy. But unfortunately, it is not for all people - and not for all animals - and not for the environment either. Fortunately, from Easter bonfires to Easter presents for children, Easter roasts and Easter decorations, there is plenty of potential for sustainability that we can exploit together.
In this article, I would like to give you some valuable tips on how to make your family Easter even greener. With sustainable eggs, fair gifts and a vegan Easter lamb. Let's go!
15 Wonderful Ideas to Celebrate Easter Holiday!
To also celebrate Easter with your sustainable lifestyle to agree, you really have many possibilities open! Especially when it comes to packaging waste, the origin of Easter eggs and also the festive meal.
Easter is just around the corner! Let's together make this time resource-conserving, with as little waste as possible and, above all, cheerful to create! Here I present you now, as promised, the most valuable tips for a truly sustainable Easter.
1. Build Easter Baskets with Natural Materials
From seaweed, wood, straw, paper or Moss and shrubs from the forest, you can make unique Easter nests with your children. Nests made of natural materials are always more beautiful and also more environmentally friendly than their counterpart made of Plastic.
Also from an old Cardboard or egg carton can alternatively conjure up a stable base for your creative nest. A little painted with watercolor - and ready! A truly natural, sustainable alternative to the plastic nest at Easter.
Good to know: With this joint DIY project you automatically promote your children's closeness to nature. I explain what else you can do in the linked blog post.
2. Choose Animal-Friendly Easter Egg Alternatives
Since we humans like to eat and paint real chicken eggs at Easter, it is Unfortunately, for many hens and their chicks, this is anything but a celebration of joy. The laying hens in the resource-intensive Factory Farming usually live in narrow, dark halls - a nightmare for the animals.
The female chicks suffer the same fate - the male chicks experience the "happiness of life" due to the Chick Shredding unfortunately only a few seconds. Because since they no economic value for the industry have, they will gassed after her birth or shredded. Brutal - and all for just one egg, which is one of the most cholesterol-rich foods in the world.
No child in the world would want this kind of contact if they knew about the background to the industry. Egg, egg, egg... but the Switch to sustainable, more animal-friendly alternatives is fortunately really uncomplicated!
Eggs made from wood, paper, clay, porcelain or even Avocado pits (keyword waste avoidance) offer themselves.
Extremely useful as an alternative for real chicken eggs are also long-lasting, Used decorative eggs second hand. Just take a look at your local second-hand store or classified ads. If you handle them well, you can then every year at Easter Get it out of your boxes and reuse it.
Tip: If you want to know more about the background of the egg industry, then take a look at the article about it, Why I don't eat eggs as a vegan.
3. Paint Your Easter Eggs the Sustainable Way
The reusable, animal-friendly eggs can be wonderfully with finger paint (is available here*) paint. Among other things, it consists of organic corn starch, sea salt, purified chalk and clays, is water-soluble, easy to spread, dilute and mix. In addition, it is used after Nature Care Product Standard organic made in Germany.
Tip: Also for cooking and baking on Easter there are some foods that can be used as vegan egg substitute suitable. In the linked article you can find out exactly how easy it is!
4. Offer Fair and Vegan Easter Treats
Unfortunately, only the fewest, classic chocolate Easter bunnies are organic and fairly produced and ecologically packaged. Conventional palm oil from plantations is often used - child labor is also not uncommon in the supply chain.
Therefore, lay your painted eggs for example with delicious, vegan organic chocolate (is available here*), a few organic cookies and other, animal- and environmentally friendly treats in your self-made Easter nests.
Alternatively, you can whip up some sweets of your own out of a hat! Here are a few Recipes and ideas for inspiration:
- Chocolate eggs filled with nut butter and dates
- Yeast dough Easter bunnies with cranberries, hail sugar and sugar hearts
- Almond chocolate eggs From nut butter
5. Pile Up Easter Bonfire Wood Just Before Lighting
The Easter fire has a long tradition. However, those who want to spend Easter in a sustainable way find themselves in an inner conflict. Because on the one hand the Fine dust values at an alarming level - and on the other hand, in the weeks leading up to Easter, many Animals in the green cuttings of the Easter fire who are then badly surprised by the fire.
So if you want to be a part of the Easter bonfire and contribute to the greenwashing, you should take this bring to the fireplace only on the day of the fire and motivate others to do the same. This prevents the fire from becoming a death trap for hedgehogs, mice, birds, toads, rabbits and numerous insect species.
6. Cook a Plant-Based Easter Meal Instead of Roast Rabbit
The Easter bunny and the real easter lamb unfortunately have no particular reason to rejoice during the Easter holidays. On the contrary: for many families they end up in the oven and as roasts on the dining table. To be honest, this doesn't fit in at all with the festival of hope, resurrection, love and joy.
Fortunately, there are plant-based alternatives that taste at least as good and, in my personal experience, even better. At embedded video you will find already a manual including Recipe for an extremely delicious vegan "false rabbit" with spinach potatoes. Just give it a try! I'm sure your whole family will love it.
But of course there are dozens more on the Internet. more great recipe ideas! Here are a few suggestions for you:
- Colorful carrot quiche with fine peas, tofu and carrot greens
- Vegan nut roast with napkin dumplings and onion cream sauce
- Carrot Risotto with roasted sunflower seeds
Tip: Incidentally, Lent before Easter is a great time for a vegan trial month (similar to the Veganuary), which you can follow through until you break your fast after Easter mass. This is a wonderful way to get a taste of an environmentally friendly, purely plant-based diet. (Book tip with basic theory and simple recipes: Vegane Nutrition for beginners*)
7. Skip the Fish on Good Friday
On the fast days, Christ:in was forbidden to eat meat derived from animals of heaven and earth. But although Fish is also meat, the consumption of fish was allowed, as it was a Symbol of the Christian faith is. And that is why even today Christians eat at the Good Friday before Easter traditionally a fish dish.
But the Overfishing of the seas, one of the largest Environmental problems of our time, does not come by chance. Moreover, fish, like rabbits, rabbits and we humans are also, sentient, emotional and extremely intelligent creatureswho do not want to die.
In the meantime there are fortunately vegan smoked salmon and tuna, as well as fish sticks and dozens of other plant-based alternatives. Here you will find a selection of the most delicious substitutes for classic fish*..
Also with carrots, by the way, salmon can be imitated surprisingly well in terms of appearance and taste. So maybe you can make friends with a somewhat unusual, but all the more animal-friendly meal for the Feast of Hope.
Tip: Also in response to the question "Why don't vegans eat fish?" I will give you a detailed answer in a separate article. Have a look if you're interested.
8. Reduce Food Waste During Easter
For sustainable Easter, it is important to find your personal Consciously reduce food waste. Buy only as much as you really need (also applies to gifts!) and recycle leftovers meaningful.
In addition, for your cakes and meals you should Prefer food from the region, which has its season at Easter time. Also with this you lower your ecological footprint - and supports the producers in your immediate environment.
9. Join a Local Peace March (Ostermarsch)
The traditional Easter march has above all pacifist motives. In the form of a demonstration, the Peace Movement in Germany.
Of course, this fits in wonderfully with a fair and sustainable Easter. So please set a clear Statement for a peaceful worldby joining the Easter march in your area.
10. Give Eco-Friendly Easter Gifts
If you want to celebrate Easter in a sustainable way, then of course you can't miss out on the gifts. Fortunately, there are environmentally friendly gift ideas like sand on the sea - and for every age of child!
Starting from the ecological Wooden toys, about the already mentioned vegan chocolate bunny, up to sustainable cuddly toys. There you can just let your creativity run wild or directly in the sustainable gift store from CareElite look around.
Tip: In keeping with this, feel free to check out my article about how to Gifts packed plastic-free and environmentally friendly.
11. Bake a Vegan Easter Lamb Cake and Animal-Friendly Treats
The "sponge Easter lamb" also has a long tradition for Easter. So that no animal has to suffer for its ingredients, you can also make it quite simply. Bake on a vegetable basis.
All you need is Flour, ground hazelnuts, vegetable margarine, Soy milk, Baking powder, something Vanilla sugaras well as salt and sugar. You can get the quantities and precise instructions in this recipe.
Of course, you can also bake other delicious cakes and tarts. I have also put together a few wonderful recipes picked out:
- Rhubarb crumble cake with ground almonds
- Carrot cake from carrots and almonds
- Rhubarb muffins with lemon glaze
12. Use and Make Eco-Friendly Easter Decorations
Eggs, bunnies, felt flowers, nests and other Easter decoration items you can either make yourself from ecological materials or buy in the craft store.
Ideally, it was then fair, sustainable and maybe even produced by hand. Also like to tinker together with your children, to make Easter a truly sustainable celebration of the family.
Also, I advise you to use the Table decoration as waste-free as possible. For example, use washable Cloth napkins and generally avoid disposable products.
Tip: Even more Zero Waste Tips you get in the linked blog article. Feel free to get some inspiration there.
13. Avoid Unnecessary Car Trips During Easter
In the Easter period we like to visit our loved ones! Try to keep your family and friends as by train*by bus or bicycle.
And if a car ride is unavoidable, you can always rely on my Tips for sustainable driving fall back on. For example, form a Carpool or use Carpooling.
14. Start the Garden Season with Nature in Mind
In the spring, at Easter time, nature comes back to life. This gives you the perfect opportunity to spend the days off outside in the fresh air to spend and the balcony or the Design garden sustainably.
Sow for example indigenous plants (have a look at my Plant blog) and offer insects and birds a broad Food supply (e.g. fruit trees or wildflowers) and Shelter (e.g. dead wood, hedges or piles of leaves). Also, when gardening, use manual labor instead of noisy, air-polluting machines.
Enjoy Mindful Nature Walks with Loved Ones
If you're spending Easter with your family or friends a Take a walk, you should make sure to use the Not to endanger flora and fauna.
For example, choose paths and Choose excursion destinations that are not so crowded. Also stick to the rules on site at all times and take any garbage back home with you.
Celebrate Easter Sustainably – For People, Animals, and the Planet
It is really not difficultto spend Easter as fairly and environmentally friendly as possible. Especially not because you now have the most valuable tips at hand 🙂 Use them to make your Easter days a little more sustainable step by step.
This will please not only your children and grandchildren, but also our planet and the creatures that live on it together with us.
"Change is necessary like the renewal of leaves in spring."
Vincent van Gogh (more at Spring quotes)
Do you have any questions, suggestions or further tips for a sustainable Easter? Then feel free to write me a comment!
Stay sustainable and enjoy the Easter season,
PS: Also about sustainable Christmas I have put together a detailed article for you. Even if there is still some time to go until then, you can still get some inspiration from the linked article.
Inconceivable the slaughter of animals at Easter. Roast lamb and eggs squeezed from chickens.
This makes a person whose sense of ethics is not yet overgrown with calluses lose his appetite.