You don’t have to go trick-or-treating to be haunted by Halloween candy. Bite-sized chocolate bars and chewy sweet treats tempt us from overflowing bowls in offices, lobbies, and front halls every year.
You see those tiny packages and shrug, “Oh well, one won’t hurt me.” But then one can quickly turn to three, especially if the candy sits in the office kitchen or on the table near your front door.
If you’re like many people this year - trying to stretch your dollar a bit farther - you’ll buy big bulk bags of candies to hand out to the parade of trick-or-treating tots who ring your doorbell. Though the mega-bag may list the nutritional info of each type of candy inside, those teensy individual portions do not.
Here’s the bittersweet nutritional rundown of some of our bite-sized favourites:
|
|
Calories |
Fat |
Sugar |
Sodium |
|
Almond Joy |
91 |
5 |
11 |
27 |
|
3 Musketeers |
71 |
2 |
13 |
33 |
|
Baby Ruth |
130 |
7 |
17 |
60 |
|
Butterfinger |
100 |
4 |
15 |
45 |
|
Kit Kat |
52 |
3 |
6 |
5 |
|
Milky Way |
76 |
3 |
13 |
43 |
|
Snickers |
70 |
3 |
10 |
34 |
|
Peanut M&Ms |
108 |
6 |
13 |
10 |
|
Starburst |
166 |
3 |
35 |
24 |
Want to check out the nutritional value of other candies and snacks? Go here!
I try to outsmart myself by giving away all of my favourite kinds of candy first. That way, once all the trick-or-treaters have cleared the streets, I’m left only with stinky candy corns and taffy - but there’s nary a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup in sight. I also heard a woman on TV talking about how she bakes leftover Halloween candy into brownies and cupcakes and other yummables.
Here are 5 more tricks for dealing with the mountains of candy. Do you have any clever ways to avoid a post-Halloween candy coma?


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