Halloween Candy

 I love this time of year, cooler temps, pumpkin flavored treats, apple cider and Halloween.  It's great having a child with an October birthday - we had a Halloween themed party every year!  Of course candy is an important part of the holiday.

Growing up my brother, best friend and I would map out our route for the 2 hour trick-or-treating window.  We wanted to hit as many houses as possible and of course hit all the houses we knew gave out the best stuff like full size candy bars or homemade cider doughnuts or had the best decorated house.  Our goal was to collect as much candy as we could in our paper grocery bags before we had to be home.   Once home, we sorted, traded and stuffed our faces with candy. ;) I have great memories of Halloween!

Since then my goal for Halloween as changed, not so much about collecting all the candy I can, in fact I try to satisfy my sweet tooth without over doing it.  If you find it hard to resist all the candy you are giving out, you don't  have to.  I find depriving myself of something only makes me want it more, and makes me miserable.  So have some candy, just be smart about what you choose.
To help you make those decisions here is some information about the candy you might be seeing this weekend, or sooner if you've already broken into your candy stash.

Candy	Calories
Almond Joy snack size	80
Baby Ruth fun size	83
Butterfinger fun size	85
Kit Kat miniature	42
M&M Milk chocolate fun size	60
M&M  peanut fun size	70
Milky Way fun size	80
Swedish fish treat size	55
Sour Patch Kids treat size	55
Reese’s peanut butter pumpkin snack size	90
Hershey’s Milk Chocolate snack size	67

If you think you know a lot of useless information about candy or want to learn some, try the 10 question
candy trivia quiz and see how you do.  You can brag about your score in the comment section.

Happy Halloween!!

What is your favorite Halloween candy and/or memory?  (I love reese's peanut butter pumpkins, eggs, christmas trees, hearts...)