Worst Halloween Candy

tara7909

Halloween survival tips:

http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/5-worst-halloween-candies-and-10-best-survival-tips

gambitsgurl

Nine Twizzlers carry as many calories as a Wendy’s Double Stack Burger.

WTH?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

plifsey

20 pieces of Brach's candy corn is 150 calories.....I love candy corn!!!!! So I let myself have it.

So_Um_Yeah

Oh that's just not nice! :grumble:

DrBorkBork

Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

jrich1

Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

AnaNotBanana

Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

That's exactly what I do!

dcturcotte

Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

Dang, I'm skippin your house :noway:

MisdemeanorM

Halloween is going to KILL me. I have no will power for the candy! I won't buy any, but my son will get a ton and he is only 3 so I can take it all and he has no idea. It's already started with an event this weekend and I ate a bunch!

So, I am going to try to not totally pig out, but not worry too much about it. To keep my exercise level hight though the whole candy time to try to offset some of the calories at least. And I am still logging everything. OK, so I ate like 20 tootsie rolls and 3 butterfingers? I'll actually log it so at least I know what i am doing to myself and being realistic about it! It helps too to see those cals pile up to discourage me from doing so in the future or doing so and going over cals. I love Halloween candy though. I am going to enjoy it in mid-level indulgence / moderation this year

gambitsgurl

Halloween is going to KILL me. I have no will power for the candy! I won't buy any, but my son will get a ton and he is only 3 so I can take it all and he has no idea. It's already started with an event this weekend and I ate a bunch!

So, I am going to try to not totally pig out, but not worry too much about it. To keep my exercise level hight though the whole candy time to try to offset some of the calories at least. And I am still logging everything. OK, so I ate like 20 tootsie rolls and 3 butterfingers? I'll actually log it so at least I know what i am doing to myself and being realistic about it! It helps too to see those cals pile up to discourage me from doing so in the future or doing so and going over cals. I love Halloween candy though. I am going to enjoy it in mid-level indulgence / moderation this year

I give the candy a day or two then take it to the school and foist it off on the teachers

trgobble

Halloween is going to KILL me. I have no will power for the candy! I won't buy any, but my son will get a ton and he is only 3 so I can take it all and he has no idea. It's already started with an event this weekend and I ate a bunch!

So, I am going to try to not totally pig out, but not worry too much about it. To keep my exercise level hight though the whole candy time to try to offset some of the calories at least. And I am still logging everything. OK, so I ate like 20 tootsie rolls and 3 butterfingers? I'll actually log it so at least I know what i am doing to myself and being realistic about it! It helps too to see those cals pile up to discourage me from doing so in the future or doing so and going over cals. I love Halloween candy though. I am going to enjoy it in mid-level indulgence / moderation this year

I'm with you! I say I eat SOME, in moderation, and try to offset it with exercise and lots of water. If I completely deprive myself, I'll go crazy and then end up binging which is way worse.

gambitsgurl

I hate Halloween

and I hate Thanksgiving. I don't even like Thanksgiving food :ohwell:

SP0472

Nine Twizzlers carry as many calories as a Wendy’s Double Stack Burger.

WTH?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

WTH is right! Who knew they were so high in calories! WOW!

nisijam5

When I buy the halloween candy, I leave it in the truck of the car until halloween...that way, the kids nor I get to it...that's my strategy...1 day is better than 20

nisijam5

I hate Halloween

and I hate Thanksgiving. I don't even like Thanksgiving food :ohwell:

Bah hum bug

helloiloveukitty

My plan is to have my boyfriend purchase candies I don't care for. Kids still get candy and I don't get a fat *kitten*. And weigh myself that day so I have a recent number on the scale to defend lol.

And I might indulge in one mini snickers, which is surprisingly not to bad as long as it stops there.

summerjoy0621

I am so sad to see my Reese's Pumpkins on there :sad: I just knew they were healthy for me! :laugh: Oh well I will suffer through it with my kids eating all the good stuff.

00trayn

This article is the whole reason why I avoid almost all candy all the time. I've been eating one square of dark chocolate that is low carb and lighter on the calories that I buy from Trader Joes. On occasion, I'll have one Dover caramel chocolate. Otherwise, it's just not appealing to me. I'll be spending Halloween visiting two friends at Stanford in California. It's the Halloween drinks I'll have to watch out for, not the Halloween candy.

agordon415

My weakness is Halloween candy and I always fall off the wagon this time of year. I am determined this year will be different. Luckily my son doesn't want to go out and he just wants to pass out candy. I have decided to by gross gummy candies and things that I don't care for. NO CHOCOLATE. The kids will still love it, my son can eat the leftovers and I have no desire to eat them. It's a win win for everyone ) Good luck everyone!!

briteyes

I'm trying to work on a plan for all the incoming candy... my 1st grader will be bringing a ton home from school, carnivals, trick or treating, etc.... I already told him he is not going to eat all that candy... i told him how bad it is for us and we are making changes to be more healthy. he wasn't as bummed as I thought he would be, but i know he would probably rather just eat it all...lol... I may not even take him trick or treating... we'll see...

i might just have to bring all the candy in to work (after we've sorted out his loot and divyed it up).

sallyLunn

I'm lucky, I'm just not into candy, and I really don't want to be the house that hands out pencils. My kids are grown up now, but i know what they used to say about "those" houses.

elyse0210

Before I read this I posted on my page that my office manager bought us a big bag of Halloween candy to put out for out patients. I wish I would have read this before I had a small twix bar. I know one isn't bad but it's so tempting to eat more than one! Thanks for the post!

egbkid

I have to work on Halloween this year, 7 AM until 7 PM, so i will not have to worry about handouts, by then all of the kiddies are usually in.
I usually raid my nephews candy bag, I am allowed to have anything red (he is not, he goes nuts!) and sometimes his mom lets me have a tootsie roll pop(or 4), they are my weakness, but they only have 60 calories in them so i can indulge once in awhile

gambitsgurl

I hate Halloween

and I hate Thanksgiving. I don't even like Thanksgiving food :ohwell:

Bah hum bug

YOUR CHOCOLATE IS MELTING IN THE TRUNK :P

MisdemeanorM

Halloween is going to KILL me. I have no will power for the candy! I won't buy any, but my son will get a ton and he is only 3 so I can take it all and he has no idea. It's already started with an event this weekend and I ate a bunch!

So, I am going to try to not totally pig out, but not worry too much about it. To keep my exercise level hight though the whole candy time to try to offset some of the calories at least. And I am still logging everything. OK, so I ate like 20 tootsie rolls and 3 butterfingers? I'll actually log it so at least I know what i am doing to myself and being realistic about it! It helps too to see those cals pile up to discourage me from doing so in the future or doing so and going over cals. I love Halloween candy though. I am going to enjoy it in mid-level indulgence / moderation this year

I'm with you! I say I eat SOME, in moderation, and try to offset it with exercise and lots of water. If I completely deprive myself, I'll go crazy and then end up binging which is way worse.

Me too. I love Halloween and I love candy and I really don't eat any outside of Holidays. I will make an effort only to eat the kinds I actually really like and not the others just because they are there. I also try to keep it in an annoying place so I have to get the chair, climb up, take it out, get down... just to get a piece. No way I am giving it away or not eating it overall

SP0472

I'm one of "those" houses that shuts the lights and keeps the door closed! LOL! It's really the ONLY way I won't eat the candy/chips. I hate doing it but I know the kids will get candy at other houses. My nieces still go out [aged 14 & 12] and my nephew is only 3 so he'll go out but thankfully they hoard all their candy so I dont get any [we all live in the same house].

davidcookfan

Better way to survive Halloween: Don't buy candy. Buy pencils, stickers, and play doh to hand out instead!

My friends parents did that one year and their house got egged. the next year everyone avoided the house.. I say as long as you know your limit eat the damn candy get back on the wagon the next day.

Shinemaria

Ugh, my poor reeses and twix bars! Oh well, I'm in college so it's not so much the candy I'll be dealing with - it's the alcohol...I love liquor but omg it adds up fast....

gingermoon

I've had a good laugh reading some of your responses! :laugh:

I live on a dead end street in the country so I never get trick or treaters, wish I did tho!!
It is one of the few things I miss about living in the city.

As far as candy goes..... like everything in life.. all in moderation!

If I want something, I have 1 serving of it and put it away and adjust my calories accordingly.
I see no reason to avoid it like the plague, besides I only have it once every few months or so.

You'll probably be killed by rude smokers second hand smoke long before a fun sized snickers bar will do you in,.

ivyjbres

I re-treat. Its like re-gifting. The candy we put out for Halloween is the leftover Christmas and Easter candy we don't like. DH stays at home to answer the door while my son and I go trick or treating. Everyone in my family is ADD/ADHD, so my son only gets 1 piece of candy on Halloween night. Then we pour his candy into the bucket. And at Christmas it goes in his stocking. And at Easter it goes in his basket. And next Halloween, what candy managed to last all year, goes out to the trick or treaters!

MissingMinnesota

I like the play dough idea although that could get expensive. Too bad we can't do apples or fruit anymore since some bad people drugged them in the past.

BTW who ever hands out pencils and toothbrush deserve to have their homes egged.