Buying Halloween Candy weeks ahead of Halloween rarely works out, especially if it's a candy you like. But it's so tempting, the huge colorful bags lined up as you walk into the grocery store, like sandbags preventing a flood. I did buy candy early this year because I had a Halloween Bunko party, but deliberately bought candy I would not be tempted to eat. That is why you see Wintergreen Lifesavers (only 20 calories each and individually wrapped so you can't just toss them into your mouth), Autumn Mix (150 calories per 22 pieces but I don't like it) and pumpkin seeds mixed with Dark Chocolate M & M's, which I have been trying to avoid. While this choice seems healthy, I'm sure is loaded with calories, healthy or not.
Halloween seems to usher in the season of overeating, and weight gain. It starts with the Halloween candy and continues on through the pig-out known as Thanksgiving and then, of course, all the food that goes with the festivities of Christmas and other holidays, ending with champagne on New Year's Eve and a resolution to do better next year. Here, to give you a head start, are some Halloween candies that won't break your calorie budget, along with others you should avoid at all costs. ("I'd Turn Back If I Were You!")
- 3 Musketeers 63 calories for 3.
- Dum Dum lollipop 77 calories for 3.
- Tootsie Roll 50 calories for 2 small pieces.
- Now and Later 53 calories for 4 pieces
- Reese's bite size peanut butter cups 72 calories for 2 pieces.
AVOID Butterfingers, Twix bars, Reese's pumpkin bars and Milk Maid Caramels like the Black Plague.
No comments:
Post a Comment