Diabetes Tip: How to Manage Diabetes During Halloween

Keep your blood glucose levels in control this Halloween with the following tips:

  • Avoid eating candy every day up to Halloween.
  • Make sure to have a healthy, balanced dinner the night of Halloween to help you be less tempted to indulge in lots of sweets.
  • Only buy candy that you don’t like. This will keep you from being tempted to eat it all yourself.
  • At the end of Halloween night, put all your leftover candy in a bowl and leave it on your front porch for those late night trick-or-treaters.
  • Make sure you know many carbohydrates are in your candy and know how many carbohydrates you are allotted for a meal or snack.
  • Some extra physical activity on Halloween and the day following will help your body process the extra glucose and keep your blood glucose numbers in normal ranges.

Carbohydrate Values for Common Candies*

Candy

Size/Package

Carbohydrates (g)

3 Musketeers

16 g fun-size bar

12 g

3 Musketeers

2.13 oz bar

46 g

Baby Ruth

2 oz bar

37 g

Baby Ruth

1 fun size

17 g

Blow Pop

1 pop

13 g

Butterfinger

2 oz bar

41 g

Butterfinger

22 g fun-size bar

15 g

Candy Corn

15 pieces

15 g

Gummy Bears

11 pieces

30 g

Heath Bar

1.4 oz bar

25 g

Hershey’s Almond

3 minis

15 g

Hershey’s Almond

1.45 oz bar

20 g

Hershey’s Kisses

6 pieces

16 g

Hershey’s Milk Chocolate bar

Snack size

10 g

Jolly Rancher

1 piece

6 g

Kit Kat bar

3 piece bar

10 g

Kit Kat

1.5 oz package

26 g

Licorice

3 6-inch twizzlers

15 g

M&M’s, plain

Mini pack

15 g

M&M’s, plain

1.69 oz bag

34 g

M&M’s, peanut

Mini pack

13 g

M&M’s, peanut

1.74 oz bag

30 g

M&M’s, peanut butter

1.69 oz bag

27 g

Milky Way

2.15 oz bar

43 g

Milky Way

Fun-size bar

14 g

Nestle’s Crunch

1.5 oz bar

28 g

Nestle’s Crunch

4 mini bars

26 g

Reese’s Cups

2 regular-sized 1 oz cups

18 g

Reese’s Mini Cups

4 1-oz cups

16 g

Skittles

15 pieces

15 g

Skittles

Mini pack

15.5 g

Snickers

Fun-size bar

12 g

Snickers

2.07 oz bar

36 g

Snickers

20 g fun-size bar

12 g

Starburst

4 pieces

16 g

Sweet Tarts

Mini pack

13 g

Tootsie Pop

1 pop

16 g

Tootsie Rolls, minis

12 mini rolls

30 g

Tootsie Rolls

2 rolls

23 g

Twix

2, 2 oz bars

37 g

Whoppers

8 pieces

15 g

Whoppers

1 small pouch

16 g

Wonka Pixie Stix

1 6-inch stick

2 g

For More Information
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