Union made Halloween candy shopping list.

[freshwest]

51. Actually, where I live the kids rejected candy and I offered them some fresh apples instead.

The word is getting out to the kids about refined sugars. They were in luck, I'd just gone to COSTCO and bought two bags of wonderfully fragrant Washington state Red Delicious apples.

My place was full of the flowery scent. I'd bought the typical candies as listed above, and most of the kids refused. Or those with their parents looked askance. That's when I brought out the apples.

But a little bit for one day is okay, I guess. I do remember almost knocking myself into coma eating that stuff as a kid. Now I can't eat sweets, I nearly throw up. And kids are allergic to gluten, soy, peanuts, and other things, too. So it's tricky.

American food manufacturing is less about health and more about shelf life so a lot of the food isn't that great. It's a part of industrialization as opposed to rural living and roadside vegetable stands. Just my two cents.