Categories: Quick Tips

Reconsider your Halloween “Treats”: Friday Quickie

Halloween is right around the corner, where most of the population loads up on the dangerous high-fructose corn syrup & sugar-filled candy treats.

What can you give out to the neighborhood kids instead of original candy? Here’s a few suggestions:

  • Boxed raisins or single-served pretzels
  • Pumpkin, sunflower or other seeds
  • Annie organic snack-packs
  • Covered’ fruit like bananas or oranges
  • Luna or Larabars

 

Readers, what are you putting in your Halloween ‘basket’ for the trick-or-treaters?

 

Julie Hancher

Julie Hancher is Editor-in-Chief of Green Philly, sharing her expertise of all things sustainable in the city of brotherly love. She enjoys long walks in the park with local beer and greening her travels, cooking & cat, Sir Floofus Drake.

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