*Knock! Knock!* Trick or treat?! What are you handing out this season? Tricks or treats? Current trends seems to have society obsessed with the daily recommended kale and quinoa intake, but then there are those holidays—like Halloween—where we are surrounded by delightfully, sugary treats begging to be unwrapped faster than an pulling a string on an Egyptian mummy. Obviously, picking through fun sized candies and finding your favorites is definitely a treat, but don’t get tricked by their cute size! This Halloween, protect your calorie intake from being spooked by treating yourself with moderation and smart choices.

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Nevertheless, if you are concerned about your calorie intake rising from the dead and causing terror in your body, here are some of the best candies for a low calorie Halloween treat as recommended by Health.Com[1]:

1. Brach’s Candy Corn

This quintessential Halloween candy is more than 100 years old; it was first released by the Wunderlee Company in the 1800s. The reference to autumn is obvious: the candies are shaped like a kernel of corn in harvest colors. Each morsel has a mere 7 calories (if you can eat just one). Each piece of the pumpkin-shaped mellowcreme version has 28 calories.

2. Hershey’s Kisses

Available at Halloween time in pumpkin-spice flavor as well as in silver, black, and orange-colored wrapping. A traditional Kiss has 22 calories. The pumpkin-spice flavor adds just one more calorie to the mix.

3. Reese’s Pieces

The favorite of E.T. and extraterrestrials everywhere, one fun-sized pouch contain about 70 calories.

4. Snickers

A fun-size version of the U.S.'s best-selling candy bar containing the traditional chocolate, nougat, peanuts, and caramel has only 71 calories. The pumpkin-shaped Halloween special has 90 calories..

5. Tootsie Rolls

Distinguished as the first non-melting chocolate, Tootsie Rolls are already made in sizes perfect for Halloween bags. One piece: 23 calories.

6. Nestle Crunch

During Halloween season, this classic chocolate bar also comes in "Pumpkin Singles"—the same milk chocolate and crisped rice, but shaped like a pumpkin. Each 1.2-ounce piece has 170 calories and a fun size bar has 60 calories.

7. Nestle Butterfinger

A Halloween pumpkin two-pack has 160 calories while the "fun size" kids will hopefully find in their treat bags has 85 calories.

8. Nestle Baby Ruth

The peanuts, caramel, and chocolate-flavored nougat in this 90-year-old candy bar come in a 52-calorie fun size at Halloween.

9. Mars M&Ms

These tiny pellets of candy-coated milk chocolate (with or without peanuts) are guaranteed to "melt in your mouth, not in your hand." One fun-sized pack of peanut is 90 calories and one fun-sized pack of regular milk chocolate is 70.

10. Cow Tales

 A later invention of the Goetze Company, Cow Tales are essentially an elongated version of Caramel Creams, hence the moniker. One caramel apple Cow Tale: 110 calories.

Leave the tricks to the ghosts, goblins and ghouls this year, not the candy! Treat yourself without feeling guilty this Halloween and indulge the right way!

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Works Cited:

1.       “31 Lower-Calorie Halloween Candies.” Health.com. <http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20631211,00.html >.

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