Canadian Candy?
Without the Nutty Club in operation, I can't really find anything made in Canada at all...
For chips we have Old Dutch and La Cochina and a few other good options. But I'm completely lost in the junk food aisle trying to find snacks for D&D.
Dare has fruity gummy candy made in Canada.
Edit: just saw the comment about Dare. Will look at them next time I'm at the store, I was pretty sure I read Made in Canada but will check again.
For chips
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Old Dutch is from Minnesota. The major portion of their production is done in Canada, and most of their customers are here, but their corporate head office is in the US.
ARRRRRGH. I wonder if their financials are public - maybe their Canadian branch is independent? (Like A&W Canada...)
Dare cookies, Vachon pastries, Purdy’s chocolates, Covered Bridge chips, Chapman’s ice cream and popsicles, Cavendish fries.
You might also try looking for a local candy shop. Traditional candy is amazing! Stuff like toffee, fudge, peanut brittle, caramel popcorn, hand made chocolates, almond bark…
Leclerc cookies!
Only thing on that list at my local Co-op was the Chapman's. And I agree that it is great!
Kerr's looks like it has a comparable product line to Nutty Club.
Kerr makes hard candy that is awesome. Lemon drops too.
Maynards is made in Canada. Not Canadian owned, but made in Canada. Fuzzy peaches are brilliant.
Sour Watermelons be king
You could look at Bulk Barn, it’s a Canadian store that sells candies but I have no idea where they source them
If you're willing to settle for. "Buy Commonwealth" as a fallback, British candy is generally not too hard to get ahold of, and bloody excellent (then again, I have an obvious bias there)
Probably not exactly what you are looking for, but Purdys chocolates are from and made in Vancouver
Yeah, looking for crap like skittles or smarties, except Canadian ;)
Unfortunately American, but I really, really liked Vermont Chocolates' Skippers, always grabbed some when I drove to VT. Much higher quality than Mars M&M.
Hopefully some Canadian company can take their place.
For chips, Covered Bridge.
I thought that was a brewery out in Stittsville way
If German is ok then definitely Haribo. Best Gummibears in the world! For chocolate (and if you like mint) these are the best I have ever had and they are from Winnipeg: https://www.mordenschocolate.com/
Yeah, Morden's is amazing! I go directly to their store here in Winnipeg sometimes. But they are super expensive for something like D&D snacks that will be consumed in large quantities over several hours :)
We only got them gifted a few times but it wouldn’t surprise me. Nice treat though. Never had better mint filled choc.
Is your goal 'buy Canadian' or 'not buy American'?
Mine is to not buy from certain nations (US, China, Israel).
I ask because there are options from many other countries as others have mentioned. Just depends on what your goals are.
Both, but separately. When I was at Walmart last, I could find Belgian chocolate, British Wine Gums, etc. But I didn't really want to shop at Walmart, since their profits will still be funneled to the US.
So I went to my local Co-op. And everything there was basically Mars or Nestle or similar. Even the Co-op branded stuff was "imported by Co-op (Canada) under license" but wouldn't give me country of manufacture. Haribo and Storck were there from Germany, so it my objective was only to not-buy American, I could pull it off.
But the only things in the aisle that were provably Canadian were some of the chips and beef jerky.
Ended up with a bag of Haribo gummy bears.
Lots of other good advice in the comments, but I didn't see any of these brands in my Winnipeg Co-op. Will keep hunting :)
but I didn't see any of these brands in my Winnipeg Co-op.
Thw co-op at St Vital Center has British candy in the international foods aisle (as well as from some other countries).
Makes sense. It can be difficult unfortunately.
Not Canadian but these Portuguese candies are sold in Portuguese bakeries and stores in the GTA and they're like crack!
Ganong makes Chicken Bones, which are a cinnamon candy. They're mostly chocolate, though: Pal-o-Mine chocolate bars, Delecto Peanut Clusters, and they're introducing a new one they bought out from an American manufacture: Sixlets, which look like chocolate M&M's from the pictures and their website.
Prana makes a bunch of nut snacks like salted cashews and almonds.
Ganong hurts a bit - the Cookes stuck their fishy hands in that pot - but it’s still worth supporting.
The Cookes are awful billionaires but at least they’re awful Canadian billionaires? /s If we haven’t heard of them, that’s by design.
If you have a really sweet tooth, there is the Canadian Candy Company, in Cobourg, Ontario. The only problem is that unless you go to their outlet store beside the factory, you have to buy candy by the pallet (looks like about 700kg).
Squish is based in Montreal https://www.squishcandies.ca/
I've got a weak spot for Rheo Thompson chocolates. Not something you'd get at the grocery store though.
Being in this part of Ontario I love Rheo Thompson mint smoothies. When I first moved here I literally thought "mint smoothie" meant some sort of tacky mint drink mix then I finally found some on sale for charity at my local Pharmasave and was converted :)