{"id":724,"date":"2009-10-30T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/10\/halloween-candy-why-i-splurge.html"},"modified":"2009-10-30T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T15:05:47","slug":"halloween-candy-why-i-splurge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/10\/halloween-candy-why-i-splurge.html","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Candy: Why I Splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HalloweenCandy.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>It’s a strange Foodie Friday, because tomorrow is Halloween night, and the last thing I have on my mind is healthy eating.  <\/p>\n

Confession time: for me, Halloween is a one-night high-fructose corn syrup-soaked feast, a no-holds-barred visit back to a simpler time in my life, a time when sugar was sugar (HFCS? What’s that?), and sugar meant fun.  So tomorrow night, yes, I will eat Reese’s.  Yes, I will eat Snicker’s.  And yes, several mini Milky Ways will get frozen for later consumption. Fresh living?  That will have to wait until 11\/1.<\/p>\n

“You have to have treats,” a friend told me years ago after a successful Weight Watchers experience.  I entirely agree.  Most of the time, my treats are high-cocoa-content dark chocolate or tea cakes made from whole wheat pastry flour and fresh pumpkin<\/a>.  But the “treat” in “trick-or-treat” does not involve whole wheat pastry flour.  It involves tiny chocolate bars, individually wrapped, loaded with the worst, most deliciously naughty “food-like substances<\/a>” there are.<\/p>\n

And so, I wish you all a very happy Halloween.  Because we all need treats.   <\/p>\n

(image via: http:\/\/food.thefuntimesguide.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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