Way back in the days when Milton Hershey was just a man, not a theme park, folks thought candy bars were nutritious, not deadly poison. The idea behind it went roughly like this: they’re loaded with calories! Calories give you energy to burn! Eat up, Pa — that sugar will help keep them factories running!

Now that it’s considered healthier to eat a steak or a ham-and-cheese omelet than a couple slices of toast, it’s good to know that someone still subscribes to the calorie-as-energy school. It seems the only difference is they’ve taken a candy bar and wrapped it in a " nutrition bar " label.

The Balance Gold Caramel Nut Blast (add a few letters and you get the acronym BiG CaNdy Bar) gives you 210 sweet, sweet calories’ worth of chocolate, peanuts, and, best of all, caramel, in a 40 percent carbohydrate/30 percent protein/30 percent fat combination. Now, how that breakdown compares to your average Snickers bar, I don’t know. But for a buck-fifty, think how much guilt-free nutrition-bar energy you’ll get from all that caramel before you go back to the factory.

Available at local grocery and convenience stores.