Monday, October 25, 2010

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...)

4 comments:

  1. eeks! I didn't do to well on that quiz :/ I am not sure I want to brag about my score.... Some interesting facts though - I guess I learned something new.
    My favorite Halloween candy is also reese's. I love twizzlers too!

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  2. Mmm candy. Luckily we don't have trick or treaters so there will be no candy here! I like hot tamales!

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  3. I gave up candy in the 9th grade for a New Year's resolution. So I'm getting closer to being candy/chocolate free for 20 years - a couple years shy, but darn close. So candy doesn't even tempt me at all anymore. But I HAVE to take this quiz. I bet I will have the worst possible score!

    I got 6 out of 10 .... I guess I'm a lucky guesser!

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  4. I always snag a baby ruth from my kids bags, I only eat them at halloween, and I LOVE them.

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