Say ‘Boo’ not ‘Moo’ for Halloween

October 25, 2015 – 

Halloween is just around the corner and Halloween candy has arrived full force in stores across The Woodlands. Presumably retailers are counting on consumers like me for additional profits, by grabbing a couple of extra bags so I’m sure not to run out for the mini ghosts, witches and other creatures of the night that descend upon my subdivision each Oct. 31st.

Yet for the more health conscious among us — or perhaps just to talk myself out of another bag of my wife’s favorite sweets Candy Corn — the following is a list of popular trick-or-treat items along with their serving sizes and calories per serving for each.(Click here for a more comprehensive list) The information was taken from the packages of each candy, all of which were of the “snack size” or “fun size” variety commonly offered on Halloween. Note that while the numbers are accurate for the sizes, there are so many different packaging options available for the same kinds of candy nowadays that it’s possible your bags may read differently. But this list will give you at least a general idea of what you’re up against this Halloween.

And, of course, for those of us who still take in too many calories leading up to the holiday, likely helping to stuff the pockets of dentists around the country each fall, there’s always a spot in the gym to work off those extra calories. Give me a call!

In good health,

Bob

“Hold on, man. We don’t go anywhere with ‘scary’, ‘spooky’, ‘haunted’, or ‘forbidden’ in the title.” — Shaggy in Scooby-Doo

100 Grand
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 190

3 Musketeers
Serving size: 3 bars
Calories per serving: 190

Almond Joy
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 80

Baby Ruth
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 170

Brach’s Candy Corn
Serving size: 20 pieces
Calories per serving: 150

Brach’s Indian Corn
Serving size: 22 pieces
Calories per serving: 140

Brach’s Milk Maid Caramels
Serving size: 4 pieces
Calories per serving: 160

Butterfinger
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 170

Charleston Chew (vanilla)
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 45

Dots
Serving size: 12 dots (2 boxes)
Calories per serving: 150

Heath Milk Chocolate English Toffee Bar
Serving size: 3 pieces
Calories per serving: 230

Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme
Serving size: 3 pieces
Calories per serving: 220

Hershey’s Kisses (milk chocolate)
Serving size: 9 pieces
Calories per serving: 200

Hershey’s Kisses Special Dark
Serving size: 9 pieces
Calories per serving: 180

Hershey’s Milk Chocolate
Serving size: 3 pieces
Calories per serving: 200

Hershey’s Miniatures (assorted chocolate bars)
Serving size: 5 pieces
Calories per serving: 210

Hershey’s Payday
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 90

Hershey’s Take 5
Serving size: 1 piece
Calories per serving: 100

Jolly Rancher Lollipops
Serving size: 1 piece
Calories per serving: 50

Jujyfruits
Serving Size: 18 pieces
Calories per serving: 120

Junior Mints
Serving size: 2 boxes
Calories per serving: 160

Kit Kat
Serving size: 3 2-piece bars
Calories per serving: 210

M&Ms (milk chocolate)
Serving size: 3 packs
Calories per serving: 220

M&Ms (peanut)
Serving size: 2 packs
Calories per serving: 180

Milk Duds
Serving size: 3 boxes
Calories per serving: 160

Milky Way
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 160

Milky Way Simply Caramel
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 100

Mounds
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 80

Nestle Crunch
Serving size: 3 bars
Calories per serving: 180

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Serving size: 1 piece
Calories per serving: 110

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures
Serving size: 5 pieces
Calories per serving: 220

Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins
Serving size: 2 pieces
Calories per serving: 170

Skittles
Serving size: 3 packs
Calories per serving: 180

Smarties
Serving size: 1 roll
Calories per serving: 25

Snickers
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 160

Snickers Peanut Butter Squares
Serving size: 1 bar
Calories per serving: 130

Spangler Dum Dum Pops
Serving size: 3 pops
Calories per serving: 60

Starburst
Serving size: 8 pieces (chews)
Calories per serving: 160

Sweet’s Candy Corn Taffy
Serving size: 7 pieces
Calories per serving: 160

Tootsie Roll Midgees
Serving size: 13 pieces
Calories per serving: 140

Tootsie Roll Pops
Serving size: 1 pop
Calories per serving: 60

Tootsie Roll Snack Bars
Serving size: 2 bars
Calories per serving: 100

Twix (caramel)
Serving size: 1 cookie
Calories per serving: 80

Twizzlers (strawberry snack size bars)
Serving size: 3 bars
Calories per serving: 140

Whoppers
Serving size: 6 tubes
Calories per serving: 190