{"id":2584,"date":"2010-09-16T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/wordpress\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2013-08-20T21:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T21:24:35","slug":"plan-ahead-for-healthy-and-fun-halloween-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/plan-ahead-for-healthy-and-fun-halloween-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan Ahead for Healthy (and Fun!) Halloween Treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years, I\u2019ve been conducting my own little research project on Halloween.\u00a0 It all started when I wanted to offer kids something besides candy.\u00a0 But would\u00a0kids go for\u00a0it?\u00a0 My investigation\u00a0revealed that younger kids LOVE alternatives to candy.\u00a0 I would hold out two bowls \u2013 one filled with candy and the other filled with a variety of other goodies from hair ties to Halloween pencils and erasers.\u00a0 The younger kids would get so excited to choose a prize.\u00a0 One little girl even came by my house twice to show her friend the \u201cnice lady\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, life was super busy and I didn\u2019t have the chance to find some bargain prizes.\u00a0 All I offered was candy and it just wasn\u2019t as fun.\u00a0 Kids were polite and said \u201cthank you\u201d, but there wasn\u2019t the excitement of seeing a bowl full of prizes.\u00a0 So this year, I\u2019m planning ahead.\u00a0 I just ordered a bunch of fun prizes from an online store.\u00a0 All were comparable to the cost of candy.\u00a0 I enjoy offering something healthier than candy and the kids\u00a0are thrilled with something unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>This year, consider offering some alternatives to candy.\u00a0 Here are some ideas to get you started:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stickers<\/li>\n<li>Tattoos<\/li>\n<li>Bookmarks<\/li>\n<li>Pencils<\/li>\n<li>Erasers<\/li>\n<li>Barrettes<\/li>\n<li>Pencil toppers<\/li>\n<li>Crayons<\/li>\n<li>Pens<\/li>\n<li>Stampers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years, I\u2019ve been conducting my own little research project on Halloween.\u00a0 It all started when I wanted to offer kids something besides candy.\u00a0 But would\u00a0kids go for\u00a0it?\u00a0 My investigation\u00a0revealed that younger kids LOVE alternatives to candy.\u00a0 I would hold out two bowls \u2013 one filled with candy and the other filled with a variety of other&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/plan-ahead-for-healthy-and-fun-halloween-treats\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,780],"tags":[434,1093,51,436],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","category-nutrition-2","tag-candy","tag-halloween","tag-kids","tag-october-31","cat-42-id","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Erasers1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8359,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/8359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}