Green Your Halloween: Trick or Treat!
If you’re shopping for treats to hand out this Halloween, you are likely to find a frightening assortment of artificial ingredients, plastic packaging, and sweatshop trinkets. How scary! Steer clear of these ghoulish wares and Green Your Halloween by giving out treats that don’t trick! Here are a few ideas:
- Fair Trade Chocolates: Chocolate is always a popular choice at Halloween. But according to the non-profit group Global Exchange, 40% of the world’s cocoa is produced in “abysmal working conditions” where children are exploited and used as laborers. Give out fair-trade chocolates instead. (Try Exquisite Swiss or Endangered Species Chocolates)
- Gummies: Fruitabu’s Organic Smooshed Fruit is made without any scary artificial ingredients. Individually-sized packs come in great seasonal flavors like Autumn Apple, Abundant Apricot, and Bountiful Blackberry.
- Lollipops: College Farm Organic offers an assortment of lollipops and hard candies made with all-natural ingredients. Even better, the candy bags and wrappers are fully-compostable leaving you with a no-waste treat!
- Popcorn: Hand out individually-wrapped bags of organic microwave popcorn. (Try Newman’s Own Organics)
- Raisins: Earthbound Farms organic raisins are available in individually sized boxes
- Snack Bars: Earth’s Best snack bars make the perfect bite-sized Halloween treat
- Soy Crayons
- Stickers
- Temporary Tattoos
Great ideas … sweet for the mouth … and the soul!