Looking for Halloween candy you can “borrow” from your kid’s stash without facing a full-blown tantrum?
Good news: there’s now a ranked list of sweet treats that adults love way more than kids do. Translation? You can swipe these guilt-free.
A poll from a few years ago compared candy preferences between adults and kids aged 8 to 14, and it turns out there are quite a few classics kids wouldn’t even notice if they mysteriously vanished. At the top of the list: Dove Dark Chocolate Bars, which kids apparently see as the broccoli of the candy world. Adults, however, are living for them.
Here are the top 10 candies kids are least likely to care if you swipe:
- Dove Dark Chocolate Bars
- Andes Chocolate Mints
- Almond Joys
- Mixed nuts (Okay, not candy, but still fair game.)
- Baby Ruth bars
- Butterfingers
- Restaurant mints (like those wrapped ones by the register)
- Heath Bars
- York Peppermint Patties
- Whatchamacallits
Basically, if it’s chocolatey, nutty, or minty, your kid probably won’t fight you for it. These are your Halloween safe zone.
But beware: not everything is up for grabs. The same poll found the exact candies that kids are way more into than adults. So unless you’re ready to start a candy-fueled uprising, steer clear of these:
- Sour Punch Twists
- Pop Rocks
- AirHeads
- Nerds
- Gummy Bears
- Ring Pops
- Double Bubble gum
- Sour Patch Kids
- Welch’s Fruit Snacks
- Pixy Stix
Basically, if it fizzes, pops, sours your mouth, or dyes your tongue a shocking color, it’s sacred. Hands off.
So go ahead, dig into those Almond Joys and York Patties with zero shame. Just maybe wait until they go to bed—because even if they don’t like them, they might suddenly decide they need them the moment you’re caught with a wrapper in your hand.