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Easter Basket
Today's Easter baskets often hold more surprises: stuffed animals, crayons, coloring books, movies, action figures, books, or even arts and crafts. One thing is for certain, there will always be a chocolate Easter Bunny!
Believe it or not, Easter is second only to Halloween in candy consumption. Here are a few interesting Easter facts:
• In the week leading up to Easter, nearly 71 million pounds of chocolate candy will be purchased.
• $500 billion dollars that will be spent on candy at Easter, 70% will be devoted to buying chocolate.
• 90% of the children in the United States will receive an Easter basket
• 90 million chocolate Easter bunnies will be sold this year
• 16 billion jellybeans will be bold