We’re just full of awesome sweepstakes right now – in the past week, we showed you how to enter to win shoes, wine, a tropical spa getaway, and $500 worth of gorgeous glimmery makeup! And we’re not even done yet! We’re winding down our week of amazing giveaways with something we know you’ll love – a $1,000 SPA WEEK® gift card.

1 lucky winner will take home a grand spa experience, but we’re not stopping there! 5 additional first prize winners will enjoy a $100 SPA WEEK® gift card, which we like to think is nothing to sneeze at either.

But hurry! Like all our sweepstakes, this one ends at 11:59 PM on October 31st, which is tomorrow. Hurry here to enter!

Trick or treat? Apparently you can do both.

Peas Of Mind disguises vegetables as French Fries, and I think it’s brilliant! Now if only candy companies made an effort to promote peace – or peas – of mind this Halloween, November would be a much easier month for moms, dentists and anyone watching their diet in any way.

I liked this concept so much that I decided to test out a version of it on my coworkers today. If you disguise celery as a Tootsie Roll, does everybody win?

Project Tootcelery. (Like my cutting board? It's from the MoMa.)

Answer: YES.

Kaitlin said, “I’m so happy it was celery… I wasn’t even in the mood for chocolate. A healthy, crunchy little surprise!”

Moms, how bout it?

Happy Halloween.

The most costume-y holiday (unless you pull out an Easter Bunny suit every spring) is nearly upon us! While it’s a given that you’ll snag some adorably diminutive candy this weekend, whether it be from your own candy dish or your kid’s trick-or-treating haul, not all All Hallow’s treats are created equal. These are the tiny ghouls packing ridiculous amounts of calories in their miniscule little bodies.

While we certainly don’t advocate depriving yourself of that chocolatey treat if you really, really, really want it, if a party pack of Skittles or a tiny Twizzler would satisfy your sugar craving just as well, this list might convince you to opt in that direction instead.

1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins—At Halloween and Christmastime, Reese’s transforms their flagship cup into the shapes of teensy pumpkins and wee tannenbaums in the spirit of the season. In an accompanying spirit of overindulgence, those treats can pack a serious caloric punch. Each Halloween pumpkin will set you back 180 calories, which is a lot for something that might go down in less than a minute.
2. Peanut M&Ms—A Halloween favorite because of its ability to induce amnesia (you know you’ve daintily nibbled one, ignored the bag for 20 seconds after finishing, and then started the process all over again as though it never happened), that cheery yellow fun pack will run you 93 calories.
3. Mr. Goodbar—This deliciously simple concoction of milk chocolate and salty peanut chunks is oh-so-so good. One fun-size bar in your trick or treat pail is 90 calories, which isn’t so bad until you factor in the utter difficulty of eating just one. Curse you, Mr. Goodbar.
4. Rolos—There’s nothing not to love about this delicious chocolate/caramel concoction. Chocolate and caramel are a perfect pairing, a most holy union, and yet one snack-sized pack contains 171 calories. A truly cruel trick by any measure.
5. York Peppermint Patties—Snarfing down these minty delicious rounds may leave you with fresh breath and a burst of sugar energy, but at a whopping 165 calories per patty, they just might be the most expensive breath mint you’ll ever eat, diet-wise. We recommend eating 4 rolls of Mentos for a similar effect and calorie punch.

During this time of the year when the first telltale wisps of chill in the morning and evening foreshadow their impending long stay, the best way to stay warm and ward off the oncoming cold may be to curl up with a blanket, a cup of hot chocolate (or a hot toddy, whatever) and daydream of the Caribbean.

We want to bump that daydream up a notch – why not dream about going to the Caribbean for free?

Until Saturday at midnight, you can enter to win an amazing spa getaway, courtesy of Pevonia Botanica. Enjoy a stay for two on the beautiful island of Antigua, where you’ll be pampered into blissful oblivion with spa treatments, delicious food & wine, a rainforest tour, private boat rides, and more!

Go here to enter, but hurry!

In honor of National Chocolate Day, we command you to indulge in a helping of cocoa today. (We know these guys over to the left have.)

Chocolate, a wonder drug that goes back at least 2 millenia (evidence suggests the Mayans were chocolate lovers at least 2600 years ago), can be great for you. Choose dark to enjoy lower blood pressure and a hefty dose of antioxidants – but whatever you choose, make sure you savor it!

In honor of the day, we want to highlight 5 excellent chocolate-centric blogs and forums:

Chocolate & Zucchini for her delicious French dessert recipes.

8Chocolate for their seriously thorough product reviews – we wish they updated more!

Dying for Chocolate for her reliably yummy chocolate recipes!

The Chocolate Forum for giving chocolate lovers an excellent Internet home.

The Chocolate Addict for her sassy, art-inspired chocolate creations!

We hope you’ve had a delicious day!