Kosher Easter Candy

Kiera has a dairy sensitivity -- or she did when she was an infant, and seemed to the last time we tested it out. So Kiera and I avoid dairy (I have to avoid it because she gets it through my milk if I eat it). But what would Easter be without a basket full of chocolate? And all the hollow Easter bunnies, all the foil-wrapped eggs (even the ones without gooey centers), all the truffles and kisses and Lindt chocolate carrots -- they're all made with milk. Even the dark chocolate has milk. (Ghiradelli makes dairy-free dark chocolate but alas, they don't do little egg shapes with it.)

So today I drove out to the Kosher grocery store in St. Louis Park, just west of Lake Calhoun, to shop for the girls' Easter basket. I bought them some Israeli candy bars and some foil-wrapped dark chocolate coins and some chocolate-covered pretzels and chocolate-covered marshmellows, all dairy-free and parve. (Kosher food is divided into three categories -- milk, meat, and parve. If it's meat or parve, it's dairy-free.)

Then I went to Target and bought Easter-themed Pez dispensers, plastic eggs, and baskets.

I wonder if anyone else out there shops at kosher grocery stores for their Easter candy? Surely between the vegans and the other mothers of kids with food allergies or sensitivities, I'm not the only mom to do this.

I also browsed the freezer section, and I'll have to go back sometime when I'm not running other errands: they had beef ravioli (most ravioli has cheese in it) and all sorts of exciting parve desserts.