Exploits of a Vegan Wannabe

Photo By: S. Duquet

We adore Halloween. We decorate the house inside and out, wear costumes every chance we get and discuss a month in advance the candy we will hand out.  Sandy picks three candies and I pick three. Mine are always, Take 5, Starburst and Almond Joy. They are my fave. You may or may not know this,  but none of those are vegan. They all contain gelatin or milk products. I have been pondering this since that sunny Spring day that I accepted the Vegan Challenge.

So, I have been on the hunt for veganized candy and yummies to indulge in on Halloween. I don’t need candy, it isn’t about the need. I want the candy and I want to participate in a holiday that excites me. I can hardly wait for the sun to go down on Halloween and this one will be no different. To get us started I found this list on Vegan Nutritionista

Photo By: S. Duquet

The Chewy Candies:

• Airheads taffy
• Dots
• Jelly Belly’s
• Jujubees
• Jujyfruits
• Mambas
• Mike & Ike’s
• Now and Later
• Skittles (now gelatin-free)  I did not know these were vegan!
• Sour Patch Kids & Fruits (pictured)
• Swedish Fish
• Twizzlers

The Lollipops:

• Blow Pops
• Charms lollipops
• Dum-Dums
• Ring Pop lollipops

Hard Candies:

• Brach’s Cinnamon Hard Candy
• Cry Babies
• Dem Bones
• Fireballs
• Gobstoppers
• Jolly Ranchers (lollipops and hard candy)
• Lemonheads         How yummy are Lemonheads!
• Pez
• Smarties (U.S. Brand)
• Sweet Tarts

Vegan Gum:

• Hubba Bubba bubblegum
• Super Bubble

Old Fashioned Candy:

• Atkins peanut butter bars
• Chick-o-Sticks
• Cracker Jack
• Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews
• Mary Janes (regular and peanut butter kisses) The black and orange wrapped candies pictured
• Zots

I also found a website called the Natural Candy Store where you can purchase all natural, vegan Halloween candy. There are options I have never seen or thought of such as Twilight Candy Bars and Whizzers Chocolate Beans.

Photo By: S. Duquet

Yesterday afternoon I purchased Halloween Oreos because I knew they were vegan and they looked so fun that I could not leave the store without them. As I was setting up the studio to shoot the candy photos for this post, I helped myself to a festive Oreo. I twisted the top off  like you see in the commercials and scraped off some of the old school creme filling. As I did the same maneuver that thousands of children have done thousands of times before me, I felt my insides giggle. I had tapped into Little  Sherry and boy did we enjoy that moment. Halloween is fun and so are vegan sweets. Consume with joy and  reckless abandon every once in a while.

Have a delicious day.

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