I may or may not take part in the dash to get to the good stuff first, but we would all do well to follow my Grandpa's advice: "Stock up before the hoarders get there!" Gotta love that old-fashioned wisdom... Heh. :)
Most candies out there have so many food colorings it's almost INSANE:
I try to find things that at least have a minimal amount of color and preferably no artificial flavors. As we've seen, even CHOCOLATE isn't immune to the flavoring phenomenon, but there are a few exceptions. My favorite would be the Reese's peanut butter cup! But only the large one, as the bite-size ones have artificial flavoring in them. Same company, essentially the same product, DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS. GAH! So remember:
In non-chocolate candy, there's also the ubiquitous Necco Wafer:
Now to my FAVORITE treat to get the kiddos, YUMMY EARTH LOLLIPOPS!
Look at the colors! And the swirls! And the all-natural organic-ness! Well, I guess you can't really tell that last one by looking at it, which is kinda the point. :) I got a good deal last year on the hexagon container:
Yum. These are so good.
I need a Reese's cup. Now.
This post made me insanely hungry and now I kind feel like raiding the kids' candy stash... ;) It really is interesting how practically the same things can have different ingredients. When I was going through diet changes to accommodate food allergies about 8 years ago, that would make me so frustrated. They add so many things unnecessarily and it's just annoying as all get out - like all the extra preservatives in FROZEN dinners?!
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