For up to two weeks following Halloween, parents can trade in any candy wrapper that their kids have earned trick or treating to YoCrunch for a coupon good for any YoCrunch product.

Of particular interest to the candy-coveting set are YoCrunch yogurts that combine healthy food (lowfat yogurt) topped with fun (the candy); specifically, Vanilla topped with Oreo, Butterfinger, Reese’s Pieces, Nestle Crunch (also available with strawberry yogurt) or M&M’s Chocolate Candies. For more nutrition, there are Strawberry topped with 100% natural lowfat granola; and Blueberry, Mixed Berry, Raspberry, Peach and Strawberry Banana topped with 100% natural lowfat granola. And for healthier trick-or-treating, there’s the special Halloween edition of YoCrunch, available through the end of October.

Trade a Halloween candy wrapper for a YoCrunch coupon. Halloween Yo-Crunch available through the end of October.

If you’d like to participate in the free coupon promotion, send a candy wrapper with your name and address clearly printed, to:

Shaina Zalma
YoCrunch
9507 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 300
Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Wrappers should be sent October 31-November 14. Note that there’s a limit of one submission per household.

All of YoCrunch’s yogurt products contain live and active cultures that aid in digestion. Visit Yocrunch.com for more information.

• Read our review of YoCrunch yogurt.
• Visit THE NIBBLE’s Yogurt Section for lots of yogurt information, reviews and recipes.

Truffle oil is an inexpensive way to get the flavor of truffle into foods. But when you buy a bottle, make it “truffle season” in your house. The aroma dissipates quickly after opening, so use up the oil within a few months. Fortunately, it works almost everywhere—as a bread-dipper, in salads or on meat, fish, eggs, chicken, corn and other vegetables. Just don’t cook with truffle oil—the scent evaporates when the oil is heated. Instead, brush it onto the food when it comes off the flame, or drizzle it into soups. Truffle oil’s “companion,” truffle vinegar, can be used to deglaze, but vinegar is not the ideal form in which to enjoy a hint of the fungus. Most truffle oil and vinegar are not made with real truffles, but are synthetic approximations. Some are much better than others.

Eat more fruit, give more fruit gifts!
Photo courtesy of Edible Arrangements.

We love Edible Arrangements’ artistically-sculpted fresh fruit baskets and topical displays. (Read our review.) They’re:

• Great gifts for calorie counters and healthy eaters.
• A welcome hostess gift.
• A terrific way to get kids excited about eating fruit.

In addition to sophisticated presentations for grown-ups, there’s a broad selection of kid-themed fruit containers, from Mickey Mouse and the Disney Princesses to Sponge Bob, footballs and a Halloween pumpkin. Find the store nearest you at EdibleArrangements.com.

If you’re not a vegetarian or vegan, you may have enjoyed a few jokes about Tofurkey or Veat vegetarian meat substitutes. Even some vegetarians we know turn their noses up at “fake meat” on principle. But at THE NIBBLE, we’re only in it for food, glorious food.

We’ve tried our fair share of vegetarian meats. Some we hope will never cross our plate again. Others, like the tempeh bacon served in a “TLT” sandwich (tempeh bacon, lettuce and tomato) with Nasoya’s Nayonaise (delicious!) at a local eatery, are a delight (“I can’t believe it isn’t bacon!”). We’re not vegetarian; we’re an omnivore. We eat anything that tastes good.

This meatloaf is 100% meatless comfort food. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

Whether you’re vegetarian, looking to give up meat a day or two a week to help the environment or your health, or simply looking for a new and delicious food, meet this great “new meat,” Field Roast grain meat.

• Read the full review.
• Check out our other Top Picks Of The Week.

Today is White Chocolate Day, but did you know that is only since 2002 that the FDA classified this ivory delight as chocolate? Because white chocolate contains no cocoa solids, it used to be classified with the chalk-white product called “confectionary coating,” which is made with cheaper vegetable oil instead of cocoa butter—and in our opinion, doesn’t taste so terrific. (If you think you don’t like white chocolate, you may have been eating confectionary coating.) The FDA finally agreed that the cocoa butter qualified it as true chocolate (the other components are milk, sweetener such as sugar and vanilla, plus a dab of lecithin as an emulsifier).