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Kim Bensen shares six tips on how to stay healthy during Halloween with all that candy around you. Also learn how to make "witches fingers" for Halloween.

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Kim Bensen: October 31st is coming and if you're watching your weight it can be even scarier. I am Kim Bensen with Parents TV. When I weighed 350 pounds, now that was a few years ago. I was always the first to hurry up and get bags and bags of my favorite candy. I put a big bowl out in the middle of our kitchen table and I have to replenish it over and over again, long before Halloween night. I don't do that anymore and I have got some healthy hints to help you stick with your diet on Halloween without missing out on the bun. Tip number 1, wait to buy the candy. Live dangerously, even for your type A overly prepared moms, trust me, America doesn't run out of candy. Tip 2, buy and hand out candy that you don't like. As tasty as they are salad dummies considered mechanical for weeks and I won't even be tempted. A Snickers Bar; however, doesn't stay the chance in my house and yes I can smell it through the wrapper. If you like it, don't buy it. Tip number 3, don't hand out candy at all. Believe it or not, there are a myriad of fun options out there, bulk prepackaged toys and goodies. They have everything from temporary tattoos which my 7 and 9 year old's love. Mini flashlights and myriad of other bulk packets to eat that kids love to get and best of all, they are all calorie free. Go trick or treating with your kids. Leave your spouse home alone to take care of the candy and handed out it at the door and go get some exercise in fresh air and you won't be left alone to the treats. You may even going to think about inviting a Weight Loss Buddy to join you and keep each other accountable. Let your spouse do the candy inspecting. I know this is an important job, but if you can pound it up with someone else, you're one step ahead of the game. They say that 90% of parents depend to their kid's candy jars, I think the percentage is even higher than that. So tip number 6, get the candy out of sight. Put it in a box, give it to pox or call Dr. Sues. Get it, give it to a local shelter, and just get it out of the way. If you have it in your sight, put it in something that you can't see through and put it in a cupboard. Remember, Halloween witch be over in just one night, but the effects of your choices could stay with your thighs for a longtime and speaking up good choicesm check out my top 10 list of what to hand out this Halloween on KimBensen.com. Coming up next, I have a special helper with me to show you how to make some spooky Halloween snacks. [Clip] Kim Bensen: Welcome back I have four children and today I brought alone with me 9 year old Alan. Alan: Hi. Kim Bensen: Alan and I are going to show you how to make-- Alan: Witches fingers. Kim Bensen: They're scary to look at, but there only 45 calories in 2 grams of fat per finger. All you need are three ingredients. We would use fat string cheese, whole almonds, and fat-free cream cheese with the glue. So, Alan starting now by taking his plastic serrated knife and he is cutting all these string cheeses in half and then he is busy here notching out knuckles. So halfway down through you're going to take and make four little slits and you are going to pop up in the little notches and it's going to look like the fingers knuckles. And then mom and dads, it's your turn and what you're going to do, is you're going to take a sharper knife and you're just going to go along the edge and make an indentation, not all the way through, but about a halfway down in the shape of your finger nail and get a pop it right out there and then you've got a spooky looking finger. And next we're going to take almonds. Now, we've got cocoa powdered almonds. They don't change the calorie content or the carbs or anything like that. And we're taking and we're going to dip one end of it in to the fat-free cream cheese and we're going to flow it right down into the end of our finger. You can use regular almonds and I have even in a past, dye them green or orange as to make really funky looking finger nail, but Alan is glueing it down and here and there you got lovely or not so lovely witches fingers. They are simple. From all of us at Parents TV have a Halloween that's safe and healthy. Alan: And don't forget fun. Kim Bensen: And don't forget fun.