Tips for a Healthy Halloween
Tips for a
Healthy Halloween
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- Buy treats only a day or so before
Halloween – so they’re not around long to tempt you
- Keep the treats in an
inconvenient, difficult-to-reach place till Halloween arrives
- Buy treats which you don’t particularly
like, making it easier to resist
What to buy (edible)
- Buy healthy mini-packs of
- Raisins or other dried fruit
- 100% juice
- Sugar-free hot chocolate mix
- Trail mix
- Cheese and crackers
- Sugar-free gum
What to buy non-edible
- Buy non-edible treats such as
- Stick-on temporary tattoos
- Mini bottles of bubble bath or
blow bubbles
- Costume accessories such as wax
false teeth or a stick-on mustache
- Sidewalk chalk
Other tips and tricks
- Take your children out after dinner
– when you’re not hungry
- Go through the “goodie bag” when
you arrive home – discarding any outrageously unhealthy treats or those
with questionable packaging
- Put the remaining edible treats in
that same difficult-to-reach place – to be dispensed one at a time on a
scheduled basis (such as dessert time)
- When you yourself get that urge to
indulge, take a look at your watch and wait ten minutes (if you’re lucky,
you’ll get distracted and forget about the urge)
- Set a date – maybe two weeks after
Halloween – when you’ll dump the leftovers
You're a little too late!
Posted by: Alison | 10/31/2009 at 05:48 PM
yeah right!!! i encourage my children to eat it all within the week. the dentist said it is better to get it all over with instead of exposing the teeth to 5 weeks worth of sugar. we usually can get rid of it all in a few days. we are a very talented family.
Posted by: mariana | 10/31/2009 at 07:29 PM
Everyone should bring in their extra candy to FZN for Neil!!
Posted by: Frank hewitt | 11/01/2009 at 09:27 AM