Hello everyone,
This is my first time participating in #MarketFriday, which was started by 
I love following shopping experiences around the world...what a great idea. Whenever we are abroad (which is sadly far too rare) we go to a supermarket there and check out what's on offer. It is usually the first smallest and easiest step to gain an insight into the (food) culture of the respective country.
But now to my #marketfriday experience.
Since my son's taekwondo club is located in a shopping centre, I now inevitably spend 1 hour 1-2 times a week in this very shopping centre. I have to say that I don't really like shopping centres. The hustle and bustle, the neon lights and the long corridors actually put me off. I also managed to avoid this particular shopping centre for many years. But with the birth of a child, everything changes, and so does my relationship to shopping centres. In the meantime, I consider it practical because I can get everything I need there in a hurry. You can combine grocery shopping with errands from the hardware store, drugstore and clothing store. That saves a lot of time. And if you have especially small children and it's raining all day, you can spend some time in the shopping centre and do some window shopping.
So today I'm taking you to "Werre Park":
So when I was strolling through Werre Park again this week, I noticed the many bunnies everywhere. Chocolate bunnies, fabric bunnies, porcelain bunnies...bunnies everywhere you look.
Next week we celebrate Easter, and this has meanwhile mutated into a real consumer madness. It's already slightly similar in scale to Christmas shopping.
I have captured the Easter madness in pictures for you.
In the drugstore there was a huge shelf crammed from top to bottom with Easter sweets.
So much chocolate...
...who is going to eat all this?
There were even easter bunny craft kits, similar to the crispy houses at christmas.
... the chocolate madness continues
But now the end of the shelf ;)
It's the same picture in the supermarket next door:
How cheerfully the rabbits all smile. They probably don't know that they will soon be eaten ;)
All those sweets everywhere, do you really need them? I don't think so.
Ok, Easter also marks the end of the fasting period, but that doesn't mean that we should go completely crazy in terms of consumption, does it?
In any case, I find the offer totally exaggerated and ask myself who is supposed to eat all these masses of chocolate and what happens to all the chocolate that is left on the shelves. Everywhere people talk about sustainability, but then we should also slowly start to change our consumption behaviour.