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How To Best Pair Your Halloween Candy With Wine

When the kids go to sleep after a long night of trick or treating, so starts the tradition of eating all of their candy. And, after walking around the neighborhood and having to interact with neighbors, you may also need a drink.

Thanks to wine app, Vivino, you can properly pair your Halloween candy and wine. Is your kids’ candy stash mostly Kit Kats? Then you may want to pick up a medium red. Want to down a few hundred Skittles? Look towards a dry white wine, such as a sauvignon blanc or pinot grigio.

Do you find yourself with a lot of candy corns? Grab a sparkling wine and start looking for a new place to live… your neighbors suck.

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How To Best Pair Beer With All of That Leftover Halloween Candy

It’s a few days after Halloween, which means that you probably have enough Kit-Kats, Milky Ways and Skittles in the house to fill a bathtub.

At least you can try to be a little sophisticated with your candy consumption, by pairing it with the correct beer. This handy little chart by the kitchn is here to help.

Like your Snickers, do ya? Then you’ll want to complement its peanut innards with a nutty brown ale. A Dubbel, with its aromatic hints of dried fruit, will go perfectly with those fistfuls of Skittles. Candy Corns? Find new neighbors.

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Honest Food Pyramids For Adults

The Food Pyramid was created for a reason. And, that reason is to make you feel bad about your food choices. Thankfully, Someecards got real, and created Brutally Honest Food Pyramids For Every Stage of Adulthood.

So, in case you just can’t squeeze in your 2-3 servings of dairy, or 3-5 of veggies, just be honest with yourself and follow these.

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Charts About Brunch Tell a Painful Truth

Brunch used to be just a fun way to consolidate two meals while nursing a hangover. Now, it’s clearly become an exercise in humans’ tolerance for each other, and is responsible for things like “bruncher’s remorse” and “tip guilt.”

Michelle Rial of The Bold Italic knows this, and has created Hand-Crafted Charts About Brunch — a handy series that shows us a few ways in which the meal in-between breakfast and lunch has become intolerable.

Now, where’s my overpriced Bloody Mary and designer omelette? Waitress!!

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Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods?

If you’re not sure how pretentious you’d like your grocery shopping to be today, The Washington Post wants to help.

Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods? is a handy flowchart, that’ll help in your quest towards alternative shopping. It might even keep you from having to hit the Super Wal-Mart again, and could score you a deviled horn melon. Happy shopping.

[link, via Laughing Squid]