One of the great kid holidays in America is Halloween. I’m sure there are a lot of adults who enjoy it as well. We only need an excuse to play dress up for just one day. Party on me hearties. Can’t knock the prodigious amounts of candy we adults get to confiscate form the kiddies, all in the name of healthy living. 
And that got me to thinking. Can Halloween join the ranks of green living? Can it become something a little more than scaring the pants off the neighbors kids? It’s very hard to get away from the bags of milk chocolate oozing from aisles of retailers this time of year. You never see alternative healthy candies (is there such a thing?), from the same retailers shelves. But, there are good alternatives we should be thinking about. Though I’m not sure handing them out would keep your house from getting egged. Here are some ideas for you Mom and Dad’s trying to change juniors chocolate eating habits for Halloween: Organic Fun Pops, an organically derived lollipop, YummyEarth all natural gummy candies, mini Glee Gum packs an all natural chewing gum, brown rice marshmallow treats from Glenny’s, Tubi’s organic black licorice packs, and finally for the those who cannot give up chocolate, Endangered Species Chocolate sells individually wrapped bite size organic chocolate pieces. The neat thing about Endangered Species is that each wrap has an educational piece on an endangered animal. Halloween is a tough call for healthy green living, but there are alternatives to the traditional candies we’ve offered our kid’s in the past. Keep on hand a few green hand outs for the parents walking their dogs with their kid’s. Greenies makes a nice bite size doggie treat for our canines. Not that I’m looking to plug one product over another, but might as well be kind to our four legged friends. Now, if we could only find a way to lower our carbon foot print on all of those cheap Chinese Halloween decorations we see proliferating across the lawns of America.
John Vlahakis
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