Freaking Fabulous: Unreal Candy

Aside from just trying to lose/maintain weight, we've also been trying to live healthier lifestyles in general.  We try to eat more nutritious/whole foods, we exercise, we drink more water.. yadda yadda.  Our freaking fabs aren't just finding foods that are less WW Points Plus, but also, finding healthy substitutes for the junk that we crave - like the sour patch grapes when we want some candy or the turkey pepperoni and the wraps Tracy makes when craving pizza.  We are not paid in any way to endorse these finds, we just love them so much that we feel that our readers really should be made aware of them (if they aren't already.)

Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday.  Neither of us wishes to discuss the amount of points we consumed yesterday, but we will be proud to tell you we counted them.  Well.. Tracy counted all of them.. I got lazy after I had some wine.  Oops.  As I was saying, yesterday was probably one of those days that we all use as an excuse to eat, and in an attempt to at least be healthy about what we were consuming yesterday, I came across the most amazing candy yesterday.  It's not sugar free.  It's not fake.  It's not full of artificial junk that could potentially be bad for you.

I was strolling along (KID FREE) at Target yesterday before the game, taking my sweet time grocery shopping without having my kids whining, fighting, and throwing stuff in the cart, and I noticed something new.  I know my local Target like the back of my hand, so when something crops up that's not part of the normal scenery, I tend to take a second glance.  Sitting there, on the end cap, with what seemed to be a glowing aura around the display and the faint sound of angels singing, was candy.  But I'd never seen this candy, so I took my aformentioned second glance. 

It was called UNREAL Candy, their tagline is 'candy unjunked.'  I figured out the Points Plus value of the ones I thought about buying - the chocolate caramel nougat bars and the peanut butter cups - 2 PP per serving (5, if you accidentally eat two servings, 7 if you accidentally have 3... you get the idea).  Granted, the servings are small, and they really aren't that different than normal candy points values... BUT! for those 2 PP, you are NOT getting artificial sugars, you're not getting corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils,  GMOs (genetically modified organisms), gluten, or preservatives.  And? THEY'RE GOOD.  My husband ate them.  He ate a lot of them.  And he LIKED them.  My kids gobbled their pb cups up.  And I didn't feel bad giving my family a bunch of garbage. 

Yes, I know it's still candy.  There's still sugar, there's still fat, you still need to exercise moderation when eating it.  In the contact area of their website, it states:

Is UNREAL™ a “healthy” candy?

We don’t consider candy to be “healthy” for you. It’s a delicious treat that we love. What we’ve done is give people a better choice, so that when they go looking for candy, they have the option to avoid the junk.

That's exactly what I'm talking about - you can at least feel good knowing that there are some less-bad-for-you candies that are still delicious.  Go find some - NOW.  You're welcome.