Where to Buy a Better Bag of Sweets

Yes, we know that sweets are not healthy, but there are better bags if you or your children enjoy the odd treat.

Keep sweets away from young children and pets (and never use ones sweetened with xylitol, lethal to pets if littered or accidentally eaten. 

Find these items in health shops, or buy online in bulk. Read up on food safety for people and pets. You can recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside does not recycle.

JOM is an organic Swedish brand of natural sweets. Choose from Wild Strawberry, Peach or Natural Cola. Just 85 calories per bag.

Just Wholefoods Frooty Sweets are vegan alternatives to chewy sweets made with gelatine and/or beeswax. Made in fun hedgehog and bear shapes, these contain real fruit flavours (blackcurrant, apple, raspberry) and natural food dyes:

These are not ‘health foods’ (they contain glucose syrup) but are far better and contain less sugar than conventional brands, if you want to switch from you-know-who!

Just Wholefoods is a small artisan food company that create lovely plant-based mixes, to create your favourite teatime treats, made with kind ingredients and lots of love, from the Cotswolds.