Sorry, kids…I just couldn’t bear to buy you conventional candy tonight. My childhood favorites: twizzlers, reeses, snickers, peanut butter m&ms all have crap in them, including corn syrup! Corn syrup messes with your metabolism, makes you crave even more sugar and rots your teeth.
yum, yum, yum!
I even went into Duane Reade, CVS AND Walgreens…and i walked down all of the aisles in hopes to find something with out corn syrup that I could “feed” to my neighbors/trick-or-treaters….and, NOTHING! (Well, actually, Duane Reade sells organic lollipops but they were $2.99 for 10 lollipops and I couldn’t afford to feed all of the kids- I live in a big building!)
So, I trekked to Whole Foods…and what did i find? Mini bags of pretzels and sucking candies. There were no more lollipops and they didn’t have any snicker look-a-likes.
And, no other individually wrapped candies that looked delicious and would’ve fit the bill.
So, I bought these:
Yummy!
And…they are delicious! My fave is the “Pomegranate Pucker” flavor. Runner up: “Mango Tango” then “Lucky Lime” then “Wet-Face Watermelon”.
My boyfriend was upset when he saw the bowl of organic candies. He said Halloween is “the celebration of corn syrup”. Sorry, Lee…and sorry, kids. I do believe in 90/10 (90% of the time, eat to nourish your body and 10% of the time, eat what you crave), but I just couldn’t add one more corn syrup-laden candy to your treat-or-treat bag.
These are as delicious and I bet you won’t even know that they’re made of: Ingredients: Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Organic rice Syrup, Non-GMO Citric Acid (from beet sugar- nor corn), Natural Flavors, may contain Organic Black Carrots, Organic Black Currant, Organic Apple.
These mini chocolates from Nibmor
would’ve been the PERFECT trick-or-treat to give out.
PERFECT halloween treat!
Only if I were more organized… and were good at planning ahead of time!
Until, next year… Happy Halloween!
Be Sweet. Be Healthy. Be Well.
xoxox
be well,
arielle
