In preparation for Halloween I have stocked up on treat sized candy in all my favorite varieties. Generally I go for the chocolate over the fruit flavors – think M&Ms over Skittles – but I’m not that discriminating, so given a free bag of Skittles…why not. Scanning the ‘nutrition’ (or lack thereof) label on a 2 lb bag of Twizzlers, I was shocked to read that one innocent stick of licorice has 40 calories. 40 calories! And it doesn’t even taste that good! After mindlessly eating a full meal’s worth of Twizzler calories, I decided to do some research about the calorie content of the Halloween candy that I KNOW I would eat if it was in the house, and this is what I came up with:
25 small jellybeans 140 calories
20 pieces of candy corn 100 calories
2 Brachs caramels 80 calories
2 Hershey’s Kisses 50 calories
1 mini Tootsie roll 25 calories
1 Fun Size candy bar 80 calories
(Snickers, Milky Way, Butterfinger)
1 mini bite-size candy bar 55 calories
(Snicker, Milky Way, Butterfinger)
1 Fun Size M&M packet 90 calories
(Plain or Peanut
1 mini Reese’s peanut Butter Cup 33 calories
1 full size candy bar 275 calories
(Hershey’s, Snickers, etc.)
1 king size chocolate candy bar 500 calories
(Hershey’s Snickers, etc.)
SHOCKING! It kind of takes the fun out of flinching mini candy bars from your child’s Trick-or-Treat bags while they are at school! But if this information can save you from a sugar hangover or that guilty feeling when your favorite jeans are too tight, well then I have done my job.
Have a Safe and Happy Halloween!
