Better get the next size up Halloween costume.

Not that any of us will likely do anything about it, but just for giggles, the News-Review Health Staff, expecting to hit the mother lode of candy this year with her nearly 3-year-old twins, decided to look into the calorie and fat content of some favored Halloween treats.

Give us something good to eat:

Snickers snack size: 72 calories, 4 grams of fat per (yeah, try eating just one). It’s the second-best selling Halloween candy next to candy corn. The tiny fun-size bars weigh in at just 15 grams and are about 2 inches long.
Twizzlers: 133 calories and 1 gram of fat for four tiny pieces. That’s a lot of sugar for a minuscule serving, and more than one ghoul-girl has  been known to polish off a dozen of these little gems. Ahem. Anyway, these are not for low-carb dieters or anyone watching their sugar intake.
Butterfinger snack size: 100 calories and 4 grams of fat may not seem like much, but this one will stick to your teeth and keep the buzz alive. Crunchy sugar, a peanut butter center and rich chocolate, some kind of crispiness that’s other-worldly = yum.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: 80 calories and 4.5 grams of fat. For one. If you freeze it, it lasts longer, but it doesn’t make any fat or calories drop off.
Milky Way snack size: This one’s far out, with 77 calories and 3 grams of fat. It is a little lower in calories than other peanut-butter based chocolate bars, so eat as many as you want. Just kidding. Sort of.
 

More to boo about:

25 small jellybeans, 140 calories
20 pieces of candy corn, 100 calories
2 Brachs caramels, 80 calories
2 Hershey’s Kisses, 50 calories
1 mini Tootsie Roll, 25 calories
1 Fun Size M&M packet - Plain or Peanut, 90 calories
1 full-size candy bar, 275 calories
(Calorie counts from Associated Content online)

Scare the scale

A fun online calculator allows visitors to check off all the treats they’ll consume on Halloween and then see how far you must walk in steps, miles and kilometers to walk off the calories.
Check it out at: http://walking.about.com/library/cal/blhalloweencalories.htm