I know what you’re thinking.. Tic Tacs on Cheap Eats? Candy doesn’t get featured much here because a lot of candy just plain expensive and many would argue plain unnecessary. Halloween aside, do we really need candy? Save a couple bucks and save your teeth, right?

Well, the other day I was at the local Dollar Tree. I have been meaning to make a huge run on all the scary looking dollar food items there and review them. Their food aisle is crazy… cans of spaghettios hiding amidst bottles of olives and tubs of Adkins friendly soup. I decided to start off slowly with something relatively safe. These Lime Tic-Tacs fit the bill, because they were 3 for a dollar (I can’t remember the last time that I saw packages of mints for 33 cents).

You will notice that there is only one box left of the 3. That’s because the lime tic-tacs were so good I consumed the other two containers in less than a day. And me, not being a sweets person!

I have childhood memories of sort of gross tasting tic-tacs, I believe it was the peppermint kind. It just didn’t do it for me. Truthfully, I was buying the tic-tacs for the nifty plastic packaging box. They didn’t have fruit tic-tacs like today, which I feel are the best ones because they are really nice and tangy. I usually get the orange or lime, though I’ve been known to deviate and go for cinnamon or spearmint.

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