Healthier Halloween Treats (Affordable & on Amazon Prime!)

High fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, hydrogenated oils… Halloween can be a scary time! Here’s a list of of healthier Halloween treats!

Halloween healthy treats by Mama Natural

High fructose corn syrup, artificial dyes, hydrogenated oils… Halloween can be a scary time for Natural Mamas! ?

But don’t despair! Thanks to the real food movement, there are plenty of healthy Halloween treats on the market! (And many are available on Amazon Prime for last minute shoppers like me.)

“Healthier” Halloween Candy

Not all candy is created equal! Looking for candies with more natural ingredients, lower sugar content, and healthier fats can help guide your choices toward better options.

For example, candies that include fiber (like those with nuts or coconut) are usually better since fiber can help with digestion and mitigate blood sugar spikes.

In fact, Dr. Casey Means, the co-founder of Levels—a glucose monitoring app—found that the worst food in their entire dataset of 51 million glucose data points is SKITTLES. This highlights just how damaging certain foods can be for our kids’ blood sugar levels and overall health.

Best Options:

According to Dr. Casey Means, it’s best to choose candies such as:

  • Dark chocolate (70% cocoa or higher)
  • Nut-based candy bars (like Kind Bars or Larabars)
  • Organic gummy bears and lollipops (with no artificial colors)

Worst Options:

  • Skittles (as mentioned above– causes the highest blood sugar spike)
  • Sour Patch Kids and Nerds (extremely high in sugar)
  • Conventional candy with high fructose corn syrup and artificial dyes

Real Life Options:

Ok, let’s get real. For the mamas that let their kids go out and trick-or-treat around the neighborhood and come home with a large bag of candy, here are the better choices to keep and donate the rest:

  • “Better” choices: Snickers, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Almond Joy, Baby Ruth, Peanut M&Ms, 100 Grand, PayDay, etc. Believe it or not: Twizzlers are lower in sugar than typical non-chocolate/nut candies.
  • Avoid as much as possible: Fun Dip, Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, Pixie Sticks, Mike & Ike’s, Nerds, Swedish Fish, etc.

Best Healthy Halloween Treats ?

Without further adieu, here are my top recommendations for affordable and healthy Halloween treats ranked by price and all are available on Amazon Prime.

YumEarth Organic Candy
YumEarth Organic Candy

Allergen free, non-GMO, and contain natural sugars.

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YumEarth Organic Candy
Honey Stix
Honey Sticks

Raw & unfiltered!

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Honey Stix
Unreal Almond Butter Cups
Unreal Almond Butter Cups

Pricey, indulgent, awesome.

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Unreal Almond Butter Cups
LesserEvil Popcorn
LesserEvil Popcorn

Organic Popcorn, No Artificial Ingredients.

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LesserEvil Popcorn
Annies Snacks
Annie’s Snacks

Who doesn't love a bunny snack?

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Annies Snacks
Black Forest Gummy Bears
Black Forest Gummy Bears

Old school delicious.

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Black Forest Gummy Bears
Honest Juice Boxes
Honest Juice Boxes

Surprise each kid with a refreshing drink!

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Honest Juice Boxes
Solely Organic Fruit Jerky
Solely Organic Fruit Jerky

Made with whole organic fruit - nothing else!

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Solely Organic Fruit Jerky
Kind Bar Minis
Kind Bar Minis

Individually wrapped and made up of gluten-free, non-GMO ingredients.

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Kind Bar Minis
MadeGood Crispy Squares
Made Good Crispy Squares

A healthier take on a rice crispy.

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MadeGood Crispy Squares

* Great options that don’t exclude kids with allergies. Looking for ways to celebrate the season without so much focus on treats? Check out this post.

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Homemade Healthy Halloween Treats

For those who prefer a quite holiday and want to make their own healthy Halloween treats, here are some recipes you could try…

Sprouted Pumpkin Seed Turtles
Sprouted Pumpkin Seed Turtles

These are great for kids with nut allergies! (And mama will like them too :).

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Sprouted Pumpkin Seed Turtles
Healthy Gummy Bears
Healthy Gummy Bears

Fruit-juice & Honey sweetened. A super fun treat that doesn’t last long in my household.

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Healthy Gummy Bears
Paleo Pumpkin Dessert Bites
Paleo Pumpkin Dessert Bites

Creamy, dreamy and without any nasty ingredients.

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Paleo Pumpkin Dessert Bites

Non-Food Healthy Halloween Treats

If you participate in the Teal Pumpkin Project, here are some non-food items you can offer children. As an FYI, if you plan on also handing out candy too, be sure to put these non-food items in a separate dish so there’s no cross-contamination.

Halloween stamps
Halloween stamps

Let kids “ink” themselves with these festive Halloween-themed stamps.

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Halloween stamps
Halloween Stickers
Halloween Stickers

Who doesn’t love stickers?! Giveaway a few away per trick or treater.

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Halloween Stickers
Halloween Glow Sticks
Halloween Glow Sticks

Like a moth to a flame, glow sticks are kid magnets!

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Halloween Glow Sticks
Mini Bubbles
Mini Bubbles

One of my daughter’s favorite things in life, these mini bubbles are fun, festive and allergen free.

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Mini Bubbles
Mini Pop its
Mini Pop its

These are all the rage with my kiddos.

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Mini Pop its
Spider Rings
Spider Rings

A classic.

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Spider Rings
Slap Bracelets
Slap Bracelets

Your trick or treaters will love these.

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Slap Bracelets
Fake Mustaches
Fake Mustaches

Fun!

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Fake Mustaches

Healthy Halloween Treats Don’t Have to Be Pricey?

While we’d all love to give away organic, fair trade, non-GMO, low-cadmium chocolate bars sweetened with organic coconut nectar crystals fresh from the palm, we don’t want to spend $3.00 per kid! Best to save those special treats for mama and find more affordable treat options, especially if you’re expecting tons of Trick-or-Treaters!

Healthy Halloween Treats Don’t Have to be Hard to Find…

Most grocery stores don’t have large selections of healthy Halloween treats. Sure, Whole Foods does, but they tend to be cost prohibitive. (Again, save the special treats for mama.) I also don’t like going from store to store searching for options when I can order them from the comfort of my own home (hello, Amazon Prime!). Plus, I find much better deals online than I find in most health food stores.

Healthy Halloween Treats: It is possible!

I hope this post is helpful in your quest for healthy Halloween treats. With a little creativity and planning, it is definitely doable, mama! And if you want to curb the candy consumption post-Halloween, be sure to check out my post about the Switch Witch.

Switch-Witch

How about you?

Thanks for reading and now I’d love to hear from you. What are your favorite healthy Halloween treats to give away? How do you manage the candy overload?

Share with us in the comments below!

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Genevieve Howland

About the Author

Genevieve Howland is a doula and childbirth educator. She is the bestselling author of The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth and creator of the Mama Natural Birth Course. A mother of three, graduate of the University of Colorado, and YouTuber with over 135,000,000 views, she helps mothers and moms-to-be lead healthier and more natural lives.

6 Comments

  1. We’ve done the Yum earth lollipops for a few years and tried the Unreal peanut butter cups last year. Sometimes I throw in the Justin’s peanut butter cups too. Gummies we have to stay away from in our house because of the gelatin and I saw Sprouts start to carry a “healthier” candy corn which I’m bummed out about because it still has egg white. My kids really want to try candy corn and that’s probably the biggest set back being vegan for this time of year. I have yet to make my own. We allow them to collect candy while trick or treating, they can pick a few safe candies that I know are vegan safe but I don’t let them dive too much into it. We call it “Junk candy” in our house and all of it goes right back out the door at the end of the night to the remaining trick or treaters or donated to daddy’s office the next day. I usually make my own caramel apples, rice krispy treats or some other treat at home on Halloween anyways so the kids see those backup treats I made and are happy to switch over their candy. My kids are 8, 5 and 2. They know that if we can’t find a vegan version of a treat they like, mommy will find a way to make it. 😉

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  2. Thank you for the list of alternative treats. I have some of these already but I will order a few others. I try to get all the organic drinks and treats. My son likes them. I love the juice idea

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  3. So many great ideas! I might get some gummies for myself!

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  4. I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but there’s also the Teal Pumpkin Project that exists to help promote safer and healthier ways to do Halloween. Basically, you paint a pumpkin teal to advertise that you will be handing out non-food treats or allergy free eatable treats. You can also display a poster on your door and hand out flyers if you want to spread this movement that started in 2014.

    Here’s the link for more info :
    http://foodallergycanada.ca/teal-pumpkin-project/

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  5. Thanks for the great ideas!

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  6. As a note to any Costco members, Stretch Island fruit leathers are available there, in bulk!

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