Welcome to our Favorite Things blog series! This is where your team of wellness experts list some of their favorite foods, tools, books and resources for self-managed well-being. Nothing here is ever affiliated, just a list of things we have great experience with and recommend to our clients on a regular basis. Today is a seasonal fave: our favorite healthy-ER items for your Halloween treat bag. Now please know we also promote a little healthy indulgence now and again so if every Halloween you treat yourself to a regular old Twix, please enjoy that. But what we often see is that the entire month of October becomes an excuse to over-indulge in overly-processed sweets and snacks multiple times per day. So if you’d like to satisfy your sweet tooth or fill your trick or treat basket with some items that bring a little more nourishment, this list is for you! Enjoy!
Healthy-ER Halloween Treats:
- Unreal brand: candy and chocolate-covered items that are lower glycemic and no artificial sweeteners
- Skinny Dipped: chocolate-covered items that are lower glycemic and no artificial sweeteners
- Bear: fruit snacks and fruit leather of just fruit
- Solely: fruit snacks of just fruit
- That’s It: fruit bars and fruit chips of just fruit
- Smart Sweets: sour gummies that are low glycemic with no artificial sweeteners
- Mini protein bars: Think bars, RX Bar, IQ Bar
- Joolies date snacks: sweetened only with dates
- Simply candy bars: lower glycemic and no artificial sweeteners
- Lily’s chocolate items: lower glycemic with Stevia
- Non-Candy Ideas: tangerines, applesauce pouches, popcorn, pretzels, trail mix, cinnamon pumpkin seeds
- Non-Food Ideas: pencils, stickers, erasers, fake tattoos, glowsticks
Healthy-ER Halloween Treat Recipes:
- So many good ones on this blog post from Whole New Mom: Healthy Halloween Treats {no SCARY ingredients!} | Whole New Mom
- How cute are these Green Monster Smoothies by Detoxinista?! Healthy Halloween Treats (Mummy Granola Bars!) – Detoxinista
- A little bit more effort involved in these but such great healthy copy-cat recipes of your favorite candies! 6 Healthier Halloween Treat Recipes – Rachael’s Good Eats
- The cashews using the pumpkin spice swap and the Halloween nachos on this list are our faves: 6 Healthier Halloween Treat Recipes – Rachael’s Good Eats
- Chocolate Covered Snickers Stuffed Dates are a HUGE hit at wellness center potlucks: 10 Healthy Halloween Treats – Eating Bird Food
- Click for more ideas from last year’s Healthy Halloween roundup
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