Author: Kelly Webb

 

If you think there’s a few weeks before Thanksgiving to really #eatclean before the holiday bod hits, you have another thing coming. The day after Halloween may seem like an insignificant date, but it marks the beginning of the holidays. Even Starbucks has introduced the “merry” by providing their caffeinated beverages in red (read: controversial) cups to start recognizing the holidays.

Christmas may be more than a month away, but it’s never too early to celebrate! Especially when celebration calls for a bulk increase in body mass to provide the base for the holiday body that your relatives, parents, and secret santas are ready to create.

So to get a head start, I plan on doing nothing less but heading over to Wal-Mart during my favourite time of the year: the post Halloween candy-clearance harvest. What’s a better answer to failed prelims, term paper-filled weeks, and below freezing days than bags of peanut butter cups and Kit-Kats?

 

 

While preparing for your hibernation physique, eating candy straight out of the wrapper may get slightly boring. Luckily, here are a few ideas of what to do with the leftover candy that you may or may not have went out of your way to buy on clearance. Not all of us still receive Halloween candy care packages from our parents.

 

 

1. Make your own trail mix for great studying snacks! Because is trail mix without M&M’s really worth it?

 

 

2. Blend them into your smoothie – you need balance in your life, and every good side deserves a bad. At least that’s what I tell myself with my banana, avocado, spinach smoothies that have an added peanut butter cup component.

 

 

3. Candy Corn Pretzel hugs, the weird cousin of the M&M/Hershey Kiss/pretzel combo, because there isn’t a real reason for candy corn anyways…

 

Or, if you have the willpower (and want to avoid ending the semester with the freshman fifteen), you can donate your leftover candy to a charitable organization. Operation Gratitude is one organization that will send care packages to U.S. troops, veterans and military children.