as the 40day austerities of lent culminate on good friday april 14 several homemakers in the city are battling deadlines and the temptation of shopbought delights to come up with beautiful goodies for easter sunday while many from the christian community living in the city are happy to buy easter buns and eggs from shops some shy away from them and prefer to make their own goodies that are natural and healthy right from making homemade dyes for colouring easter eggs to using natural colouring to decorate them these home bakers are using their skills and imagination to gift handmade eggs and sweets which are preservative free to their dear ones with the holy week ensuing from palm sunday the women have been busy stirring up cashew powder sugar and other tasty ingredients to get them ready by easter sunday april 16alica crecy from sanpada has already made 300 easter eggs made of marzipan and chocolate in addition to chocolate bunnyshaped cupcakes chocolate cookies and plum cakes chocolate is the most popular ingredient and loved by all said crecyseawoods nerul resident avelina mathias is busy colouring and decorating the eggs with natural homemade colours using homemade colours instead of storebought stuff proves that one doesnt need anything fancy to create the magic of easter she said this year i will be using strawberry crush purple blueberry squash brewed coffee cranberry juice red cabbage soaked in water for making the colours she addedsmita kinny also from nerul believes that the filling and stuffing of the eggs can be preservative free and still be attractive she plans to fill the eggs with sweet jelly marshmallow and various candies