Trick-or-Treating FG Style

If you intend to stay home and hand out candy, I've listed some safe snacks that you can find at Whole Foods, Native Sun or Chase Foods. If these stores are out of your way, make a list of what your looking for and call them.

Whole foods currently has a display set up near the front of the store with Halloween items to hand out or give to toss in goodie bags. Some of these are stage one and some are stage 2, please consult your Food List & Shopping Guide to find out which.

Some solutions FG parents have found are as follows:

(1) Trade in the bad trick-or-treat candy for 1 cent each.

(2) Trade in the bad candy for the good candy

(3) Keep an eye out for buy back programs being offered by dentists in your area. Some pay up to $1 per lb of candy.

(4) Instead of trick or treating, create their own Halloween basket (similar to an easter basket). This keeps your kids home, safe and doesn't require much of you buy grocery shopping. :-)

(5) Locate those who have military families overseas and send the candy over to the troops so they can enjoy it. No chocolate of course.

Mini Glee Gums (all three stores)

Florida's Natural (seen @ Chase Foods & Whole Foods)

Yummy Earth Lollipops (all three stores)

Mary Jane Peanut Butter Kisses (check out the dollar store)

Sun Ridge Farm Jolly Beans (Native Sun in bulk)

Let's Do Organic Gummi Bears (seen at Native Sun)

Sharkies Chews (Chase foods)

Brachs All Natural Fruit Snacks (BJs carries these in bulk, 50/$5.99)

Surf Sweets Gummy Worms (Whole Foods)

Ghirardelli Squares (Target, BJ's, Walmart, etc, see book for safe flavors)

Pearsons Chocolate Covered Patties (see the dollar tree stores, sometimes Walgreens)

Utz's Pretzels (BJ's carries these)