Healthy little treats for a candy bowl?

[Denninmi]

What can I put in the candy bowl in the reception area at work that is a healthy alternative to candy? People should have better options.

Tiny boxes of raisins are one thing. What else? Has to be individually wrapped and have a reasonable shelf life.

[Callmecrazy]

1. How about ...

Some of those little bottles that they serve on airplanes?
It won't rot your teeth.

[Xyzse]

2. Are you going to stiff kids from their candy?

Denninmi, how could you?

Oh wait, you mean for the reception area at work.
There are small granola bars and stuff like that.

I know there are oatmeal squares that are individually packaged and stuff.

http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/healthy-snack-ideas
There are some things in that link that might work.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Candy bowls should not contain healthy little treats.

They should contain candy.

[trof]

4. What she said!

[HappyMe]

7. Exactly.

[winter is coming]

18. And if you want to get the good gossip, they should contain good candy. n/t

[pipi_k]

19. Absolutely!!

If I saw a bunch of healthy stuff in a candy bowl, I would seriously wonder if the person whose bowl it is was cleaning out his cabinets/pantry at home.

CANDY!!! We want candy!!!

[NYC_SKP]

5. That wrapping thing is a pain. It's not sustainable and kills my idea for apples and oranges.

I used to buy a bag of apples and watch students come by and grab them.

Pretty good shelf life and more nutritious than anything in the vending machine.

[mockmonkey]

6. Condoms? n/t

[Gravitycollapse]

15. And lube. Don't want to tear a hole in it.

[mockmonkey]

16. Flavored lube. It's Halloween!

[LiberalEsto]

8. Little packets of pretzels or nuts nt

[LiberalEsto]

10. True

My 30-year-old daughter has had a deathly peanut/tree nut allergy since kindergarten. She's had a couple of close calls. One was when chopped nuts got mixed into the sprinkles on her ice cream cone.

[elleng]

12. Raisin boxes always my go-to Halloween treat.

Other fruit, fresh and dried, and maybe nuts, might be OK; haven't checked lately. Check 'nut' posts, for safety.

[rurallib]

13. Airplane peanuts

you get about 2 or 3 to a package.

[grasswire]

14. check Trader Joe's.

They seem to have all kinds of snacky things that aren't as bad as regular candy.

I'm thinking about those little sesame bars, but don't know if they are individually wrapped.

[Chan790]

17. Ideas.

small packages of:

dry-roasted nuts.
individually-wrapped prunes.
wasabi peas!

[Arugula Latte]

20. Oooh, I love those wasabi peas.

[jmowreader]

21. Just fill it with Chick tracts, like you're gonna do at Halloween

[GoCubsGo]

22. Hershey's Simple Pleasures

They're a reduced-fat chocolate, and they're quite good. They come in three or four different varieties. I really like the dark chocolate ones, and dark chocolate is good and good for you.