NoTrickTreats.com Helps Children with Restricted Diets Enjoy Halloween

Online, October 14, 2010 (Newswire.com) - CONTACT: Jon Zornow, [email protected], (914) 984-5565

NoTrickTreats.com Helps Children with Restricted Diets Enjoy Halloween

Although many American children list Halloween as their favorite holiday, this is less often the case when - due to a dietary restriction - a child can't enjoy the same candy as everyone else. But a new website is looking to change that.

This fall, NoTrickTreats.com will let children and their parents make a custom trick-or-treating map of their area, showing the homes that will be giving out Halloween treats that they can enjoy. Homes and business that will be serving specialty candy can mark themselves on the map, indicating whether their treats will be suitable for vegan, nut-free, diabetic, organic, kosher, gluten-free, or raw diets.

"There's no denying that Halloween is a blast", says NoTrickTreats.com creator Jon Zornow, "but it's a candy-centric holiday and it leaves a lot of kids feeling excluded." Zornow, who is vegan, says he was inspired to create the site when he realized that if he had been vegan growing up, he would probably have hated Halloween - and that vegan kids weren't the only ones missing out.

NoTrickTreats.com, lets you find your neighborhood and search for homes by food specialty. It's easy to use and user-friendly for trick-or-treaters of all ages and computer skills. Although it has only been online for a few days, Zornow says has been humbled by the positive response. "I've heard from numerous parents and bloggers who are excited to search and share their Halloween information. It feels good to be part of something that is helping the whole community." ##