Clean Treats You Can Live With This Halloween
Every holiday includes its own share of waste and sugary temptations, and Halloween's a doozy. Take a look at our clean candy recommendations along with a cool company which will recycle your candy wrappers FOR you.
I know how to create a keto peanut butter cup, TOTALLY. I actually do sugar detoxes. I drink black coffee. I buy in large quantities whenever you can. But on Halloween, you are able to bet that I'm on the floor with my kids, swiping Reese's cups when they're not looking.
Sustainability isn't about perfection, it comes down to meeting people where they are with realistic solutions they can actually get on board with. Giving up Halloween candy, for some, crosses a line. And that is fine – I get that.
By all means, consume the Reese's cups, but when you're buying for other trick or treaters, consider putting some less popular, more healthy options available into the candy for circulation.
As parents as if you dig through their kids' piles for the good stuff, you might just inspire what THEY buy next year.
First – Let's discuss Wrappers
Before we obtain into this AMAZING listing of clean and natural Halloween candies, let's make something perfectly clear: all of those freaking candy wrappers aren't accepted from your typical recycling program.
They are made with petroleum, they will end up in the trash, and they will take hundreds of years to decompose.
And that sucks.
But thankfully, Terracycle has been hard at work in the last many years creating recycling programs for pretty much EVERYTHING, from cigarette butts to candy wrappers.
Before you shop Halloween candy this year, get certainly one of their candy wrapper recycling boxes.
One of their small boxes has more than enough space for all of your Halloween candy wrappers, and maybe even a few neighbors'.
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RECYCLE HALLOWEEN CANDY WRAPPERS
The Best Clean and Natural Halloween Candy
#1 – Organic Lollipops by YumEarth
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YumEarth makes a whole SLEW of awesome natural snacks and candies, but these lollipops are my kids' favorites. They're made with organic ingredients and natural flavors, and finest of, contain no artificial colors (lookin' at you Red #40).
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#2 – Spooky Shapes Gummies by Surf Sweets
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Kids love fruit snacks and gummy worms, but parents hate the artificial dyes and corn syrup. Seriously everyone, those things are barely food.
These Spooky Shapes gummies by Surf Sweets have ample sugar inside them (because seriously, it's Halloween), but none of them of the artificial colors and fructose corn syrup that's so hard on digestive tracts and parent nerves.
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#3 – Peanut Butter Cups by Justin's
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Justin's makes amazing nut butters, they also make BOMB nut butter cups. Made with 100 % natural ingredients and Justin's own nut butters, they're available in almond, cashew, AND peanut butter.
And you won't want to share.
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#4 – Nectar Bars by Honey Mamas
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Okay, so these may well be a little bougie and indulgent for any Halloween candy lineup, but when mommy's a clear eater but still has a sweet tooth, this will make an excellent reward for hand sewing another Costume.
Honey Mamas makes incredible nectar bars created using superfood ingredients that taste amazing AND improve your immune system!
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#5 – Allergy-Friendly Sweets by Amanda's Own
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If you've youngsters with food allergies, you are aware how challenging this time of the year on their behalf could be. These allergy-friendly sweets by Amanda's Own really are a little big for Halloween, but are dairy-free, nut-free, peanut-free, gluten-free, wheat-free, soy-free, egg-free, corn-free, sesame-free, mustard-free, shellfish-free, crustacean-free, and vegan.
Did you get all of that?
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So many kids are afflicted by food allergies that the Food hypersensitivity Research and Education organization created a project to create these kids feel seen during Halloween. Learn more about food allergens, then purchase only allergen-free candy this Halloween. You are able to let kids and parents know your bucket is allergy-friendly by putting a teal pumpkin in your porch.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TEAL PUMPKIN PROJECT
#6 – Clean Candy Corn by Yum Earth
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You either like it or you hate it, but many people would probably like it much more if candy corn didn't taste like upright plastic.
Look, I personally don't like candy corn, however this stuff is really really good. Yum Earth's candy corn is devoid of the chemical nasties that make another stuff unbearable, and it is created using natural flavors and colors.
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#7 – Hard Candies by CleanCandy
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Get this: these hard candies are FAIR-TRADE CERTIFIED, how crazy is the fact that?? The Natural Old fashion candy store produced their very own type of natural hard candies, and they're awesome. Made just with natural flavors and colors, no high fructose corn syrup, and many organic ingredients, they might be the cleanest hard candies available on the market.
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#8 – Your Guilt-Free Snickers, by Ocho
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I wish to love Snickers bars, but I am not crazy about ingredients like corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil – yuck.
Ocho makes AMAZING chocolates, which Organic Caramel and Peanut chocolate bars are the perfect natural Snickers dupe. They're made with organic, non-GMO ingredients, and therefore are definitely on my small do-not-share list.
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#9 – Candy-Coated Milk Chocolate Gems by UNREAL
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These candy-coated chocolate gems are just like what we all wish M&Ms were as grownups. Made with real, organic ingredients and containing approximately ZERO artificial colors, they're on my listing of items to placed on popcorn.
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#10 – Dairy-Free Sweets by Mini Moos
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Dairy is yet another big food allergy that a lot of kids (and grownups) are struggling with. Unfortunately, a lot of times a dairy allergy means that chocolate is off the table at Halloween. And that's like, the saddest thing that I've ever heard.
Mini Moos makes dairy-free chocolate bars for that dairy sensitive, and they are a must-have inside your allergy-friendly Halloween bucket this year.
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#11 – Pumpkin Spice Caramels by Cocomels
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Make all the basic jokes you would like about pumpkin spice – I'm WHO I AM, and who I'm loooooves pumpkin spice.
Cocomels are caramels created using coconut milk rather than cow's milk, and also the combination of the two is pretty much heaven. Add pumpkin spice, and you may bet this bag of candy is never reaching the bowl (sorry, not sorry).
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