Coach Dee's Halloween Candy Swaps

Snickers

These UNREAL bars are truly unreal! These are better than Snickers in my opinion, they are SO good. Most of the ingredients are organic and there’s only 6 grams of sugar per fun size bar.

I really try to avoid unnatural food dyes in our house. These Unreal milk chocolate gems are a great alternative as they use turmeric, beet juice, spirulina and radish juice instead or artificial food dyes. Unreal also has Dark Chocolate Peanut Gems and Dark Chocolate & Crispy Quinoa Gems. 

I am a total sucker for Reese's peanut butter cups, but I am horrified with the ingredients! Read more about the ingredients in Reese’s and how it has changed over the years by quickly googling. UNREAL has these much cleaner peanut butter cups and they also have almond butter cups. Get yours PB cups here. Or the almond butter cups here. I also highly recommend Theo Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, these are made in Seattle! I also recommend Perfect Snacks Peanut Butter Cups. They have more protein and whole foods powder, which includes things like celery, flax seeds, rose hips, kale, carrots, spinach, etc. However, they have to be refrigerated, so not the best for trick-or-treaters.

Sour Patch Kids have always been a favorite of mine, but just 12 pieces has 24 grams of sugar in it!! Yikes! Smart Sweets is a way better alternative with only 3 grams of sugar in a single bag. Sour Blast Buddies (ridiculous name, I know), are sweetened with allulose, monk fruit and stevia leaf extract. They are comparable to Sour Patch Kids and don’t have that funny artificial sweetener after taste.

Swedish Fish fan here, but these Smart Sweets are better than Swedish Fish in my opinion. Regular Swedish fish contain 23 grams of sugar for five fish. Only FIVE!! Smart Sweets version have 3 grams of sugar for a whole bag.

Love Twizzlers? If you are looking for a good swap, try these!

Starburst are always a popular Halloween candy, but between the corn syrup, artificial flavors and food dyes, I would stay away. YumEarth Fruit Chews have cane sugar instead of corn syrup, still not great, but better than Starburst. Plus, they are colored with carrot, blackcurrant and turmeric.

Skittles, taste the rainbow”. Their slogan should be, “Skittles, taste the food dye, corn syrup and artificial flavors”! Ha! The sugar content isn’t much different between these two, but at least the Giggles (another ridiculous name) are organic and don’t have any artificial food dyes or corn syrup.

Gummy Bears are irresistible, I get it, but once again we have artificial flavors, food dyes and most likely corn syrup (glucose syrup). There are several brands of gummy bears that are a lot better like Black Forest. There is also Surf Sweets Gummy Bears, YumEarth Gummy Bears and Smart Sweets Gummy Bears.

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