Halloween is still more than a month away, but Halloween candy has arrived full force in stores across Southwest Michigan. Presumably retailers are counting on early adopting consumers like me for additional profits, as any Halloween candy I buy before Oct. 30 will likely need replacing before it's doled out to the mini ghosts, witches and other creatures of the night that descend upon my subdivision each Oct. 31.

Yet for the more health conscious among us — or perhaps just to talk myself out of another bag of Sweet's Candy Corn Taffy — I've compiled for a second year in a row the following list of popular trick-or-treat items along with their serving sizes and calories per serving for each. The information was taken from the packages of each candy, all of which were of the "snack size" or "fun size" variety commonly offered on Halloween.

Note that while the numbers are accurate for the sizes I inspected, there are so many different packaging options available for the same kinds of candy nowadays that it's possible your bags may read differently. The numbers should be included with the nutritional information on the back of the packaging if you want to check yours to be sure, but this list will give you at least a general idea of what you're up against this Halloween.

And, of course, for those of us who still take in too much leading up to the holiday likely helping to stuff the pockets of dentists around the country each fall, there's always our previous list of

to help guide us as we seek to burn off what we've gained.

Enjoy!

100 Grand

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 190

3 Musketeers

Serving size: 3 bars

Calories per serving: 190

Almond Joy

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 80

Baby Ruth

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 170

Brach's Candy Corn

Serving size: 20 pieces

Calories per serving: 150

Brach's Indian Corn

Serving size: 22 pieces

Calories per serving: 140

Brach's Milk Maid Caramels

Serving size: 4 pieces

Calories per serving: 160

Butterfinger

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 170

Charleston Chew (vanilla)

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 45

Dots

Serving size: 12 dots (2 boxes)

Calories per serving: 150

Heath Milk Chocolate English Toffee Bar

Serving size: 3 pieces

Calories per serving: 230

Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme

Serving size: 3 pieces

Calories per serving: 220

Hershey's Kisses (milk chocolate)

Serving size: 9 pieces

Calories per serving: 200

Hershey's Kisses Special Dark

Serving size: 9 pieces

Calories per serving: 180

Hershey's Milk Chocolate

Serving size: 3 pieces

Calories per serving: 200

Hershey's Miniatures (assorted chocolate bars)

Serving size: 5 pieces

Calories per serving: 210

Hershey's Payday

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 90

Hershey's Take 5

Serving size: 1 piece

Calories per serving: 100

Jolly Rancher Lollipops

Serving size: 1 piece

Calories per serving: 50

Jujyfruits

Serving Size: 18 pieces

Calories per serving: 120

Junior Mints

Serving size: 2 boxes

Calories per serving: 160

Kit Kat

Serving size: 3 2-piece bars

Calories per serving: 210

M&Ms (milk chocolate)

Serving size: 3 packs

Calories per serving: 220

M&Ms (peanut)

Serving size: 2 packs

Calories per serving: 180

Milk Duds

Serving size: 3 boxes

Calories per serving: 160

Milky Way

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 160

Milky Way Simply Caramel

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 100

Mounds

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 80

Nestle Crunch

Serving size: 3 bars

Calories per serving: 180

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

Serving size: 1 piece

Calories per serving: 110

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Miniatures

Serving size: 5 pieces

Calories per serving: 220

Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins

Serving size: 2 pieces

Calories per serving: 170

Skittles

Serving size: 3 packs

Calories per serving: 180

Smarties

Serving size: 1 roll

Calories per serving: 25

Snickers

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 160

Snickers Peanut Butter Squares

Serving size: 1 bar

Calories per serving: 130

Spangler Dum Dum Pops

Serving size: 3 pops

Calories per serving: 60

Starburst

Serving size: 8 pieces (chews)

Calories per serving: 160

Sweet's Candy Corn Taffy

Serving size: 7 pieces

Calories per serving: 160

Tootsie Roll Midgees

Serving size: 13 pieces

Calories per serving: 140

Tootsie Roll Pops

Serving size: 1 pop

Calories per serving: 60

Tootsie Roll Snack Bars

Serving size: 2 bars

Calories per serving: 100

Twix (caramel)

Serving size: 1 cookie

Calories per serving: 80

Twizzlers (strawberry snack size bars)

Serving size: 3 bars

Calories per serving: 140

Whoppers

Serving size: 6 tubes

Calories per serving: 190

What are your favorite Halloween candies? Discuss your favorites in the comments section below.

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Simon A. Thalmann is the online editor for Booth Features.

Contact him at sthalmann@kalamazoogazette.com.