With so many American children struggling with obesity, you may not find joy in handing out globules of empty Halloween calories.
The typical jack-o'-lantern bucket holds 250 small chocolate bars (about 9,000 calories), and 20 percent of kids eat every last piece they collect. If you don't want to be the neighborhood Scrooge who's giving out apples and dental floss—or worse, pulling toilet paper from your trees the next day—try these tricks to treat their sweet tooths without expanding their waistlines.
Best Candy Choices
Type of Candy / Calories
- Trident gum (1 stick) / 6
- Reese's Mini Cup (1) / 35
- Kit Kat Bites (3) / 40
- Mr. Goodbar (1 miniature) / 42
- Snack-Size Raisins / 45
- Hershey's Milk Chocolate Miniature (1) / 50
- Jolly Rancher (3 pieces) / 50
- Tootsie Roll (1 small roll) / 50
- Miniature York Peppermint Patties (1) / 53
- Charms Blow Pop (1) / 60
Worst Candy Choices
Type of Candy / Calories
- Snickers (1 fun size) / 70
- Milky Way (1 fun size) / 75
- Kit Kat (1 fun size) / 80
- Skittles Original Fruit (1 fun size) / 80
- Wild n' Fruity Gummy Bears (10 pieces) / 87
- Butterfinger (1 fun size) / 100
- M&M's Plain (1 fun size) / 100
- M&M's Peanut (1 fun size) / 110
- Twizzler Twists (snack size) / 130
2 comments:
Hey, ignorance is bliss! Way to go and ruin my Halloween, since I am the one who usually eats all the leftover Halloween candy, not my kids. >Burp.<
Childhood obesity, nothing! We're talking about MY obesity here!
I was just surprised, that's all. I think candy has ZERO calories when you eat it at night, or wiht a friend, or on a holiday, or....you name it! I bought a HUGE bag of candy & rob may not be home to help me pass it out & eat it. As for obesity...it is just bulking up for winter! It gets cold & you need extra layers to survive.
have a good one!
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