Tricked by a Treat

I’m the type of person that likes to plan ahead. This includes Halloween candy. I don’t wait to run out the day of Halloween when you have to wrestle the Bride of Frankenstein for the last bag of orange suckers. However, there is a downside to buying early. I start raiding the candy bags and end up having to buy more.

True to tradition, when shopping this weekend I started filling up my cart with chocolate bars, peanut butter cups, and my favorite, Kit Kat bars. I promised myself that this year would be different. I would not open any candy until the first trick-or-treater came knocking at the door.

Out of curiosity, I picked up the bag of chocolate bars to read the nutrition information. Ninety calories, that’s not too bad, considering it’s probably for 3 of the Fun Size bars. What!! This can’t be! Ninety calories for ONE bar, ONE tiny little bar!

Back to the shelf goes the chocolate bars, back go the peanut butter cups, and after a moment’s hesitation, back goes the Kit Kat bars. With over three weeks until Halloween I can not have these temptations in the house. I head over to the orange suckers ( 1 sucker – 26 calories), no temptation there!

Once home I went online to find the calorie counts of some popular Halloween treats. Remember, these calorie counts are for the snack or fun size packages, NOT full size servings.

Nestlé’s Crunch – Fun Size 1 bar = 70 calories
Peanut M&M’s – Fun Pack 1 bag = 40 calories
M&M’s – Fun Pack 1 bag = 90 calories
Snicker’s – Fun Size 1 bar = 80 calories
Milky Way – Fun Size 1 bar = 75 calories
Kit Kat – Fun Size 1 bar = 50 calories
Hershey Chocolate Bar – Fun Size 1 bar = 90 calories
Reese’s Cup – 1 miniature = 36 calories, classic size=80 calories
Butterfinger – Fun Size 1 bar = 100 calories
Twix – Fun Size 1 bar = 80 calories
York Peppermint Pattie – 1 patty = 70 calories
Twizzlers – 1 treat size package = 45 calories
Almond Joy – 1 snack size bar = 90 calories
Milk Duds – 1 treat size box = 40 calories
Butterfinger – 1 snack size bar = 100 calories
Milky Way – 1 snack size bar = 90 calories
Sweet Tarts – 1 treat size pkg. = 50 calories
Tootsie Pop – 1 pop = 60 calories
Tootsie Roll – 1 small roll = 13 calories

So, sorry kids, come this Halloween we’ll be THAT house. The house you’ll not waste your time stopping at next year. The house that hands out the dreaded orange suckers!

R