Enquiring minds want to know....
Last time I checked Hallowe'en was for all ages, but trick-or-treating was for the kids. Yes, I;ve gone trick-or-treating when I was no longer a kid, but I'm short enough that in the dark and in disguise the people shelling out probbably couldn't tell the difference. Anyways, the point is that the gummy candies handed out from my house last night had "45 Calories per pouch" proudly emblazoned across each and every packet. Now, I know that the while population is moving towards the heavier end of the scale, but does Hallowe'en candy really need to have a calory count? Is little Johnnie dressed up as Batman going to hand the package back to me because it would be more than his designated calory-per-candy-pack limit? Given the attention paid in to the negative body image of increasingly younger girls, advertising the caloric count on trick-or-treat candy just seems wrong. If a parent of an obese or severely overweight child don't want him or her to collect a whole bunch of candy on Hallowe'en night than there are other things for the child to do, and the parent as well. (One can only imagine the tears if said parent let their child go trick-or-treating only to confiscate the candy on health grounds.) On the hand, the warning/advertisement of 45 calories might be aimed more at the adults who eat the candy in between handing it out to trick-or-treaters. Or it oculd be for the people like me, eating a 45 calorie pack of Fuzzy Peaches as part of a nutritious breakfast that included a few other treat-sized chocolate bars.