Keep your kids healthy (aka out of a sugar coma) this Halloween

Even though I didn't give my own child any candy until he was about three, it's like he knew what it was and that he would love it more than any other food out there...and let the sugar addiction fight begin. So if you have a little sugar-monster in your house (or several in your neighborhood), check out these ways to ease the sugar high, and subsequent drop this Halloween:

• Feed your kids a high protein and vitamin rich meal so that they are full and satisfied before trick or treating. Think grilled chicken breast with steamed broccoli and roasted sweet potatoes.
• Race from house to house or trunk to trunk to get the body moving
• At your own house, consider ditching the candy and giving out mini-bottles of water, fruit strips, no sugar added apple sauce pouches, cuties, etc. 
• If your little ones come home with bags of candy, limit the intake to one piece a day for a week and then toss/donate/give it away
• Instead of trick or treating, throw a Halloween party. Serve healthy snacks, carve pumpkins, roast some delicious and nutritious pumpkin seeds and forget the candy all together!