Healthier Candy Choices this Halloween

Healthy Halloween Candy choices you can easily swap without sacrificing the sweet, delicious taste of chocolate, or your favorite candy.

Healthy Candy Options for Halloween 

While candy isn’t necessarily called “healthy,” there are a few reasons why these alternatives shared in this article are better for your kids, than the mainstream candy they may receive trick-or-treating this year.

Halloween candies contain risky ingredients that no child should be eating… artificial colors, artificial flavors, GMOs, TBHQ, BHT… and more.

I know what you may be thinking.

But it’s only one day a year, you need to calm down…. 

To be clear, I’m not saying you should never buy or eat candy, but if you normally avoid artificial colors, artificial flavors GMO’s, controversial preservatives, and eat organic, I ask you to think about all the holidays we have that include candy and chocolate.

Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Birthdays, Parties, even going to the movies… all with candy, candy and more candy.

Mainstream candy is filled with artificial colors, artificial flavors and risky preservatives, and the time before and after the holidays when the candy is in your home, it all adds up for to being more than “just one day a year.”

There are so many better options available if you want to have candy. 

I’ve made it easy for your make healthier swaps with delicious alternatives to popular Halloween candies… everything from Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Starburst, M&M’s…I’ve got you covered.

 

Healthy Candy Swaps for Halloween

These alternatives aren’t perfect (they’re still candy after all) but they are much better options without all the yucky stuff inside.

You can buy these healthy options as a swap for your children’s candy they get trick-or-treating or you can buy enough to hand out too!

You’ll find easy healthy swaps for the most popular Halloween candy.

 

Instead of Hershey’s Milk Chocolate, Try One of These Options:  

Instead of M&MS Plain or Peanut M&Ms, Try One of These Options: 

Instead of Milky Way or Snickers, Try One of These Options: 

Instead of Mounds, Try These Options: 

Instead of Twix, Try These Options:

Instead of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Try One of These Options: 

Instead of Sour Patch Kids, Try This Option: 

Instead of Starbursts, Try These Options: 

Instead of Candy Corn, Try This Option: 

Instead of Swedish Fish, Try This Option: 

Instead of Jelly Beans, Try This Option: 

Instead of Suckers and Lollipops, Try These Options: 

 

Here are some other ideas you can give out to trick or treaters or your kids: 

• Glow in the Dark Necklaces
• Lara Bars
• Made Good Rice Krispie Treats
• Pencils

 

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• 45 Easy Homemade Halloween Costumes You Can Make Without Being Crafty
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