Halloween Candy

It was a day like any other... I came in to work, and got ready to do my post for the day. I started doing research on the most popular Halloween candy by state to help the people buy the right thing.

Before you go out and buy Halloween candy, consider which candies contain boiled beetles, and beaver butt juice.

Just in case you need an excuse to reap the benefits of your child's work without guilt here are 4 reasons you SHOULD take some of your kid's candy.

If you see the word castoreum listed as an ingredient, drop the candy. Castoreum is just a fancy word for beavers butt juice!

Channing Tatum is getting in on Jimmy Kimmel's madness.

Halloween time means trick-or-treating for the kids. If you're a parent, here is the candy you should be stealing from them.

What are your favorite Halloween candies? Take our poll and be sure you're not on the cheapskate list.

Halloween is coming up Monday and I'll once again be going door to door in my neighborhood with my daughter to do the trick or treating thing, where, without a doubt she will receive quite a bit of candy, some of which she'll share with my wife and I! Thankfully she and I have somewhat different tastes when it comes to candy!

Being that we will be eating the kids' candy anyway, I need to point out some candy that has no place in any Trick-Or-Treat bag.

Too early to start talking about Halloween? I don't know about you, but I start planning MY Halloween the day AFTER Halloween! And thanks to M&Ms I already know what I'm getting for my trick-or-treaters. M&Ms just announced a new flavor hitting Target this Fall, and its white-chocolate and butterscotch AKA BOO-tterscotch! And if...

Don't worry, we've got your back on which candy to eat and which to ditch. If you're into eating right and doing your best to stay active, this time of the year makes you nervous. It's sugar, carbs and fat at every turn. Sorry if that was a touch dramatic...

The results are from the Influenster poll asking American's what their favorite Halloween candy is and Texas has a lot in common with Oregon, Wyoming, Tennessee and South Carolina!