Health (ier) Halloween Candy Options : Clean Eating with Kids

A Halloween Candy plan can go a long way to stop you overindulging in Sugar and totally blowing your weeks weight loss or healthy eating progress. Here are 10 Healthier Store Bought pre packaged Candy Options that will help you keep on track this Halloween.

If you or your kids are trying to cut down on sugar or lose a little weight, don't let Halloween become the reason that you abandon your goals.

I'm not saying that you should avoid candy all together, but I am saying that you should be in control of the amount and type of candy you eat.

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10 Healthier Candy Options

Most candy on the supermarket shelves is loaded full of preservatives, artificial colors and flavors. So as a Mom, chances are you are not going to be OK with your kids eating a stack of it but you don't want them to miss out on all the Halloween fun either.

Arrrgh!! [frustrated Mom sound that may sound a little like a pirate]

Parenting can be tricky. It's often hard to find that balance between wanting to please your children and parent them at the same time. Those two things don't seem to go together.

Well, I have a solution to this parenting dilemma. By being a little selective of the type of candy you buy, you can cut out a lot of the nasties found in most candy. I've checked out our options and found a short list of 10 healthier candy options you can purchase right off of Amazon and have shipped to your door!

All 10 of these candies are as natural as I could find, with no artificial coloring. I have also included a couple gluten-free and dairy-free options just in case you're like me and someone in your family has issues with these.

YumEarth Organic Lollypops

600 lollipops
Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free, Non-GMO
No artificial flavors or colors
Free from top allergens.
No Egg, fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree-nuts and gluten (Contains Annatto)
Flavors Include: Pomegranate Pucker, Wet-Face Watermelon, Strawberry Smash, Googly Grape, Very Very Cherry, Perfectly Peach, Razzmatazz Berry, Mango Tango

YumEarth Gummy Bears

50 snack packs
Gluten Free, Non-GMO
No artificial flavors or colors
Free from top allergens. No Egg, fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree-nuts and gluten (Contains Annatto)
Flavors Include: Pomegranate Pucker, Mango Tango, Perfectly Peach, Strawberry Smash

Black Forest Juicy Burst Fruit Flavored Snacks

Certified USDA organic
Gluten free
Flavors include: lemon, fruit punch, lime, orange and raspberry
All colors from natural sources

Fruit Snacks by Zest Delites - Fruit Leather

PACK OF 36
Only 3 ingredients
ZERO ADDED SUGAR: Only real fruit puree.
ALL NATURAL: No artificial flavors, preservatives, or colors - gluten free, non-GMO, and vegan

UNREAL Halloween Dark Chocolate Variety Pack

20 snack sized bags,
Fair Trade Certified, responsibly-sourced ingredients
Colored with veggies - Nothing Artificial

36 snack packs
Non-GMO, Allergy-Friendly, Certified Gluten-Free, Vegan
No gluten, wheat, peanuts, dairy, tree nuts, soy, casein, sulfites, egg, lupin, sesame, fish, mustard, crustaceans, shellfish.
Made with all-natural ingredients.

YumEarth Gluten Free Candy Corn

50 snack packets of candy corn
USDA Organic, Non-GMO and Gluten-Free
No milk, no peanuts, no shellfish, no tree nuts, no wheat and no fish
No artificial flavors or colors

YumEarth Organic Pops

Individually wrapped hard candy
USDA Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free, Non-GMO
Free from top allergens. No Egg, fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree-nuts and gluten
Variety of Flavours
No artificial flavors or colors

YumEarth Organic Gluten Free Licorice Grab N Go Pack

USDA Organic, Vegan, Gluten Free, Non-GMO
Free from top allergens. No Egg, fish, milk, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree-nuts and gluten
No artificial flavors or colors

Justin's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups , 1.4 Ounce (Pack of 12)

Organic peanut butter and fair-trade chocolate
Gluten Free, Vegan & Dairy Free
2 cups/pack; 12 packs per box

Pack of 300+ NON Candy Halloween Treats

The Thing about Sugar

If you allow it, it's easy to find a valid excuse to reach for that sweet treat a little too often. Birthdays, Easter, Christmas and now Halloween. Committing to a healthier lifestyle doesn't mean you have to feel deprived all the time, but it does mean you have to be honest with yourself about what you're eating.

Sugar is a 'sometimes food' and overindulging in the sweet stuff is not going to help you or your family reach your health goals, regardless of the 'special' occasion.

If you follow my blog, you will see that our family didn't do the 'quit sugar thing' (you can read more about that here). But we definitely see sugar as a treat rather than an everyday food. So when it comes to Halloween Candy, we all know that most of them contain bucket loads of sugar.

And we all know by now that sugar is not good for us. And just because there's a bowl of candy in front of you - it doesn't make it OK to eat the whole lot.

But it's not a big deal if we have a bit. Which brings us to the next big question .....

How Much Candy Should you let your Kids Eat on Halloween?

Hmmm. Now this most definitely depends on you. If you are not OK with them eating a whole bowl of candy, then simply don't let them. If your kids go trick or treating and arrive home with enough candy to feed a small village, then before you take their prized stash away, make sure you have a game plan. You could:

Let them use candy pieces as currency for something else they want - i.e. 10 candy pieces = 1 hour screen time or
Re-gift the Candy and use it to make up Halloween treats for their class mates
Let them know ahead of time that no matter how much candy they gather, they get to pick X (you choose the number) amount and the rest gets tossed, donated or stored away.