This Halloween have your cake and eat it too: help kids fill their pillow cases full of organic and fair trade candy! This will not only help prevent expensive dentist bills due to refined-sugar overload, but will also help create sustainable ecology and economies all over the world.
Look for these alternatives to the usual synthetic loot:
- Yummy-gummy goodness: Try Surf Sweets Gummy Worms or Organic Classic Gummi Bears from Surf Sweets or Let’s Do Organic, both made with organic natural sweeteners and sans artificial colours and flavours.
- The new chew: Look for Glee Gum, a natural gum (no synthetic plastics) in cinnamon, peppermint and tangerine flavours, made with sustainably harvested natural chicle from Central American rainforests.
- A smarter kind of Smarties®: Sun Drops by Sunspire- candy-coated chocolate or peanut bites with no artificial colours, flavours, or preservatives.
- Fruit Lollipops by Pure Fun or Yummy Earth: organic lollipops in both old and new flavours- lemon, green apple, watermelon, goji berry, tangerine, and pomegranate. No synthetic colours here; their colourings come from red beet, red cabbage, annatto extract, turmeric extract, purple carrots, and alfalfa extract!
- Fair trade eco-chocolate: Try organic dark/milk/white chocolate squares from Green & Black’s, organic and fair trade dark chocolate bites from Equal Exchange, or ethically-traded milk-chocolate squares by Endangered Species.
- Crystal Cuts: Colorful old-fashioned hard candies from Hammond’s in Grape, Orange, Lemon, and Cherry.
- Maple hard candies: Leaf-shaped candies flavored and colored with real maple syrup.
- Spicy Cinnamon Candy by Pure Fun: This certified organic, vegan, gluten-free, kosher candy actually contains red cabbage to get its colour!
- Organic dark-chocolate covered raisins by Sunspire: a much healthier version of Raisinettes®.
- Organic Jelly Beans by Surf Sweets
- More pep in your step: Honey Mint Patties by Honey Acres are an incredibly pure version of Pep® mint and chocolate patties- their ingredients are only honey, unsweetened chocolate, and peppermint.
