One final thought on this story:
How Christian is an Easter basket? What does an Easter basket really have to do with the meaning of Easter at all?
I think the Easter basket is a lot like the Easter dinner. If one has been abstaining from candy or meat or whatever for the 6 weeks of Lent, then those foods are reintroduced on Easter as a celebration of the risen Savior. Certainly, the practices aren’t grounded in solid Christian theology, they are symbolic.